Lingala and Kikuyu/Lexical Selection

This page details the lexical selection process for machine translation between Lingala and Kikuyu for one-to-many mappings.

lin → kik

Solved Ambiguities

Mabele

• (lin) mabele → (kik) thanga (sand); ria (milk)

Kobéta

• (lin) kobéta → (kik) ??? (beat (as in hit)); ??? (rain (verb))

Unsolved Ambiguities

Kokíma

• (lin) kokíma → (kik) hanyũk (to run); ũr (to run away)

Kofánda

• (lin) kofánda → (kik) ikar (to sit); tũũr (to live (as in reside))

kobánza

• (lin) kobánza → (kik) ĩcir (to think); ririkan (to remember)

kik → lin

Solved Ambiguities

Ria

• (kik) ria → (lin) mabele (milk); etimá (pond)

Unsolved Ambiguities

Igu

• (kik) igu → (lin) kotosa (to obey); koyoka (to hear)

Rut

• (kik) rut → (lin) koyekola (to learn); kokukula (to remove)