Difference between revisions of "Warlpiri"

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Developed Resources

• Keyboard layout wiki page: [1]
• Keyboard layout repository: [2]
• Repository containing corpus of Warlpiri and English [3]
• Grammar documentation page: [4]
• Morphological Transducer Code: [5]
• Morphological Transducer Documentation: [6]
• Morphological Disambiguator: [7]

External Resources

Kinds of resources:

• computational resources (spell checkers, orthography converters, speech recognition software),
• dictionaries/phrasebooks/glossaries (multilingual and monolingual, online and paper),
• grammatical descriptions (theoretical and pædagogical),
• scientific works (papers, books, websites), and
• corpora (any collection of authentic text, linguistically annotated or not)

Computational Resources

• Kirrkirr is computer software allowing for transformation of lexical databases to provide information languages target at indigenous languages, created by Kevin Jansz, Christopher Manning, and Nitin Indurkhya. [8] It's available for download on Linux. The specifics of the authors' work on Warlpiri is detailed here: [9]
• Christopher Horsethief has developed a Warlpiri Font Keyboard available on iOS devices. Available for purchase. [10]

Dictionaries/Phrasebooks

• The AuSIL (Australian Society for Indigenous Languages) has an interactive Warlpiri-English dictionary [11] that includes a Warlpiri lexicon and English to Warlpiri translations. It appears to be free to download, yet download is not available on the current server.
• The Glosbe Dictionary contains 55 phrases translated in English and Warlpiri. The phrases contain usage examples, and anyone can edit their translations [12]. Note about licenses: "Some of data we present is licensed with CC-BY-SA, some is FDL, some comes with custom license. Data source is always indicated next to data if it is needed due to the license." [13] There is also a free API that can be used [14].
• A list of Warlpiri words, including English translations: [15] No license necessary.
• A concise and comprehensive edition of the Warlpiri dictionaries used to build KirrKirr for Warlpiri: [16] Available for free download.

Grammatical Descriptions

• The Omniglot encyclopedia includes a short grammatical description of Warlpiri: [17] No license necessary.
• The AuSIL has a description of Warlpiri, including its sounds and abbreviations:[18] No license necessary.
• Syntax - Theory and and Analysis (Kiss, 2015) includes a chapter about the grammatical structures of Walpiri [19]
• Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology (Bowler, 2015) [20] All rights reserved. Available for viewing on Google Scholar.

Scientific Works

• The AuSIL also contains links to four papers by Stephen Swartz (1982), regarding Warlpiri clauses, propositional particles, verb roots, and verbal clauses, in photocopied PDF form [21] No license is necessary to download it.
• Jane Simpson is a researcher at the Australian National University who has published many papers on Warlpiri, including her PhD thesis "Aspects of Warlpiri Morphology and Syntax" [22] No license is necessary to download it.
• Jane Simpson's book Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax (1991) is available in McCabe: [23]

Corpora

• Sample paragraph of Warlpiri from Omniglot Encyclopedia, including the English translation. Copyrighted, but usable as long as reference is given and it's not used commercially. [24]
• New testament in Warlpiri, available in other translations including English. All rights reserved, © Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. [25]
• A series of short stories by AIATSIS Australian Indigenous Languages Collection Informants. Open access, available for download: [26]

Other

• David Nash has compiled a list of Warlpiri references, dictionaries, and literature: [27]
• A 4-minute news program Indigenous Language News Radio, available online in audio form: [28]
• Midterm overview notes: https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Warlpiri/Midterm