Warlpiri

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)

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.

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]
• The Glosbe Dictionary contains 55 phrases translated in English and Warlpiri. The phrases contain usage examples, and anyone can edit their translations [3]. 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." [4] There is also a free API that can be used [5].

Grammatical Descriptions

• The Omniglot encyclopedia includes a short grammatical description: [6]

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. [7]
• New testament in Warlpiri, available in other translations including English. No license necessary. [8]