Balkan languages
The Balkan languages are those languages spoken in the Balkans, and possibly forming a part of the Balkan Sprachbund. They include Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Aromanian, Albanian, Greek, Serbo-Croatian, and a number of others.
The master plan involves generating independent finite-state transducers for each language, and then making individual dictionaries and transfer rules for every pair. The current status of these goals is listed below.
Status[edit]
The ultimate goal is to have multi-purposable transducers for a variety of Balkan languages. These can then be paired for X→Y translation with the addition of a CG for language X and transfer rules / dictionary for the pair X→Y. Below is listed development progress for each language's transducers and dictionary pairs.
Transducers[edit]
Once a transducer has ~80% coverage on a range of medium-large corpora we can say it is "working". Over 90% and it can be considered to be "production".
Balkan Language Classification[edit]
The languages that share these similarities belong to five distinct branches of the Indo-European languages[1]:
- Albanian: Arvanitika, Gheg, Tosk
- Hellenic languages: Standard Greek, Cappadocian Greek, Pontic Greek
- Romance languages: Aromanian, Romanian, Moldovan, Istro-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian
- Slavic languages
- Indic languages: Romani
Existing language pairs[edit]
Text in italic denotes language pairs under development / in the incubator. Regular text denotes a functioning language pair in staging, while text in bold denotes a stable well-working language pair in trunk.
| mkd | hbs | slv | bul | tur | sqi | ell | rup | ron | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mkd | - | hbs-mkd 12,813 |
sl-mk 25,579 |
mk-bg 8,783 |
mk-sq ? |
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| hbs | hbs-mkd 12,813 |
- | hbs-slv 24,717 |
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| slv | sl-mk 25,579 |
hbs-slv 24,717 |
- | ||||||
| bul | mk-bg 8,783 |
- | bg-el 638 |
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| tur | - | ||||||||
| sqi | mk-sq ? |
- | |||||||
| ell | bg-el 638 |
- | |||||||
| rup | - | ron-rup 402 | |||||||
| ron | ron-rup 402 |
- | |||||||
| aze | tur-aze 8,194 |
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| cat | ca-ro 16,431 | ||||||||
| ces | ces-hbs 167 |
cs-sl 570 |
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| chv | cv-tr 100 |
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| eng | mk-en 33,350 |
hbs-eng 16,228 |
sl-en 313 |
bg-en 10,242 |
tr-en 171 |
en-sq 580 |
ell-eng 830 |
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| epo | eo-bg ? |
eo-tr 1,500 |
eo-el 1,150 |
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| fin | fin-hbs 250 |
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| fra | fr-ro 12,727 | ||||||||
| ina | ron-ina 192 | ||||||||
| ita | slv-ita 1,586 |
ro-it 10,093 | |||||||
| kir | tur-kir 7,123 |
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| pol | pol-hbs 136 |
slv-pol 354 |
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| rus | hbs-rus 5,008 |
bg-ru 3,292 |
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| spa | slv-spa |
es-ro 24,528 | |||||||
| tat | tur-tat 3,317 |
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| tuk | tuk-tur 3,387 |
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| uzb | tur-uzb 3,519 |
Samples[edit]
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
| Language | Text |
|---|---|
| Macedonian | Сите човечки суштества се раѓаат слободни и еднакви по достоинство и права. Тие се обдарени со разум и совест и треба да се однесуваат еден кон друг во духот на општо човечката припадност. |
| Slovenian | Vsi ljudje se rodijo svobodni in imajo enako dostojanstvo in enake pravice. Obdarjeni so z razumom in vestjo in bi morali ravnati drug z drugim kakor bratje. |
| Bulgarian | Всички хора се раждат свободни и равни по достойнство и права. Те са надарени с разум и съвест и следва да се отнасят помежду си в дух на братство. |
| Turkish | Bütün insanlar hür, haysiyet ve haklar bakımından eşit doğarlar. Akıl ve vicdana sahiptirler ve birbirlerine karşı kardeşlik zihniyeti ile hareket etmelidirler. |
