Warlpiri
From LING073
Contents
Developed Resources
- Keyboard layout wiki page: [1]
- Keyboard layout repository: [2]
- Assembled corpus of Warlpiri and English [3]
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. [4] It's available for download on Linux. The specifics of the authors' work on Warlpiri is detailed here: [5]
- Christopher Horsethief has developed a Warlpiri Font Keyboard available on iOS devices. Available for purchase. [6]
Dictionaries/Phrasebooks
- The AuSIL (Australian Society for Indigenous Languages) has an interactive Warlpiri-English dictionary [7] 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 [8]. 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." [9] There is also a free API that can be used [10].
- A list of Warlpiri words, including English translations: [11] No license necessary.
- A concise and comprehensive edition of the Warlpiri dictionaries used to build KirrKirr for Warlpiri: [12] Available for free download.
Grammatical Descriptions
- The Omniglot encyclopedia includes a short grammatical description of Warlpiri: [13] No license necessary.
- The AuSIL has a description of Warlpiri, including its sounds and abbreviations:[14] No license necessary.
- Syntax - Theory and and Analysis (Kiss, 2015) includes a chapter about the grammatical structures of Walpiri [15]
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 [16] 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" [17] No license is necessary to download it.
- Jane Simpson's book Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax (1991) is available in McCabe: [18]
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. [19]
- New testament in Warlpiri, available in other translations including English. All rights reserved, © Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. [20]
- A series of short stories by AIATSIS Australian Indigenous Languages Collection Informants. Open access, available for download: [21]
