Warlpiri
From LING073
Here I will document the resources for Warlpiri.
Kinds of resources to investigate:
- 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)
Contents
Resources
Your task is to find any resources possible, categorise them appropriately, provide a short description, list licenses, and work to obtain any resources that are not immediately available that would appear to be useful.
Computational Resources
Dictionaries/Phrasebooks
- The AuSIL (Australian Society for Indigenous Languages) has an interactive Warlpiri-English dictionary [1] that includes a Warlpiri lexicon, English to Warlpiri translations, and a description of the language (including its sounds and abbreviations) [2]
Grammatical Descriptions
- The Omniglot encyclopedia includes a short grammatical description: [3]
Scientific Works
Corpora
- Sample paragraph of Warlpiri from Omniglot Encyclopedia, including the English translation. This website also includes a listing of the vowels and consonants in Warlpiri and their pronunciations. No license necessary. [4]
- New testament in Warlpiri, available in other translations including English. No license necessary. [5]