Guarani

Computational Resources

• Spellchecker
  • Found a paper in Spanish about a Guarani spell-checker being worked on here. However, no option to download was found.

• Guarani: A case study in resource development for quick ramp-­up MT [1]
  • Paper that talks about a method for developing quick ramp-up machine translation. Uses Guarani as an example. Written by team of researchers at New Mexico State University, unsure about license.

Dictionaries

• Guaraní Concise Dictionary: Guaraní-English, English-Guaraní by A. Scott Britton
  • E-book of a English-Guarani dictionary. Licenses is all rights reserved. [2]
• Glosbe Online Dictionary
  • Website containing Guarani dictionaries for several languages here. Website says that some data is licensed.

Grammatical Descriptions

• Scanned PDF of a introductory Guarani course book (in English) made by the Peace Corps. Unsure of the license. [3] [4]

• Curso básico de Guaraní CERDET (Centro de Estudios Regionales para el Desarrollo de Tarija)
  • PDF in Spanish that teaches the basics of Guarani grammar here. Couldn't find license.

• Spanish Wikibooks page with several links to pages on the grammar of Guarani (free license). [5]

Scientific Works

• The Grammar of Possession: Inalienability, Incorporation and Possessor Ascension in Guarani - Maura Velázquez-Castillo
  • Scholarly work on the grammar of Guarani. Focuses on alienable and inalienable possession. The e-book is available online. Copyrighted.

• On the Prosodic Coding of Focus in Paraguayan Guaraní[6] - Cynthia G. Clopper and Judith Tonhauser
  • Scholarly paper focused mostly on the phonetics and phonology of Guarani, but does include a large section on the grammar of Guarani. Copyrighted, all rights reserved.

• The Distribution of Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guaraní[7] - Cory Adam Shain
  • Thesis written on the object marking of direct objects in Guarani. Includes lots of example sentences and an extensive summary of the syntax of Guarani. All rights reserved.

• Word Order in Paraguayan Guaraní[8] - Judith Tonhauser and Erika Colijn
  • Scholarly article about word order and grammar of Guarani. Includes lots of example sentences with English translation. All rights reserved.

Corpora

• Bible Passage Translations
  • Online copy of a translation of the Bible.[9] Has been approved by the bishops of Paraguay. [10]

• Wikipedia Pages
  • There are 3,000 Wikipedia pages in Guarani, however, many of the pages are very sparse.[11] Pages for movies and TV shows seem to have a decent amount of text.[12]

• Let's Talk Guarnime [13]
  • Blog written in English by a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay. Teaches the grammar of Guarani and contains lots of example text in Guarani along with English translation. Unsure about license, will try to contact author.