Kalmyk and Judeo-Tat/Contrastive Grammar

Resources for machine translation between Judeo-Tat and Kalmyk

jdt-xal Tests

• Kalmyk uses the dative(dative-locative) case to mark nouns that indicate location and answer the question "where?". Judeo-Tat does not mark this.
• For the genitive construction ('s/of), Kalmyk uses the genitive marker on the noun. Judeo-Tat does not use this. TODO: WHAT INSTEAD?

• (jdt) хьэсуьл омори имбуруз э шегьэр Довид Хилос Сох → (xal) Давид хаана төрскн хотнд "the town of David (meaning is closer to 'town where (King) David was born')"

  (jdt) хьэсуьл<n> омори<v> имбуруз<n> э<abl> шегьэр<n> Довид<np> Хилос<n> Сох<v> → (xal) Давид<np> хаана<n><gen> төрскн<n> хотнд<n><dat>

• To indicate ordinal numbers, Kalmyk attaches a suffix to the cardinal form. Judeo-Tat does not have a specified ordinal form for numbers.
• TODO: why does xal have a possesive marker on 'day'?

• (jdt) е чор руз → (xal) эн дөрвдгч өдрнь "(jdt) a fourth day (xal) this fourth day"

  (jdt) е<adv> чор<num> руз<n> → (xal) эн <adj> дөрвдгч <num><ord> өдрнь<n><px3sp>

• Kalmyk is a SVO language. Judeo-Tat is a SOV language.

• (jdt) е жуьфд журубьо → (xal) тер үүдн хаав "he closed the door"

  (jdt) TODO JDT → (xal) тер<prn><pers> үүдн<n> хаав<v><pret>

xal-jdt Tests

• (xal) Давид хаана төрскн хотнд → (jdt) TODO JDT "the town of David"

  (xal) Давид<np> хаана<n><gen> төрскн<n> хотнд<n><dat> → (jdt) TODO JDT

• (xal) эн дөрвдгч өдрнь → (jdt) TODO JDT "a/this fourth day"

  (xal) эн <adj> дөрвдгч <num><ord> өдрнь<n><px3sp> → (jdt) TODO JDT

• (xal) тер үүдн хаав → (jdt) TODO JDT "he closed the door"

  (xal) тер<prn><pers> үүдн<n> хаав<v><pret> → (jdt) е<art> жуьфд<class> журубьо<n><pl>

Developed Resources

Corpus on GitHub Lexical Transfer on Github