Chippewa documentation

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Center location data taken from Glottolog. Area extent is local data. Both can be adjusted if wrong - file a pull request!

This page documents the work on the Chippewa language model. It contains some 750 nouns and verbs, and a morphological component covering their basic inflection pattern.

The analyser is thus still in an experimental phase.

The language

Ojibwe is an Algonquin language spoken in Canada and the United States. There are dialect differences within the language. The principal source of our analyser presents the Minnesota dialect, using the Double Vowel, or so-called Fiero system. This system is characterised by marking vowel length by writing double vowel symbols.

• Generation of paradigms and text analysis

Documentation of the analyser

The analyser is in an initial state, and contains some hundred verbs, approximately hundred nouns and some pronouns.

• Grammatical tags
• A list of the words used so far
• Notes on verb inflection
• Notes on morphophonology, mostly verbs for now

Using the analysers

• In the terminal: analyse words by writing uciw, generate with dciw
• For more info, see How to use the morphological parsers

Sources

We have so far used the following two sources:

1. The chart verb paradigms of the web page Anishinaabemowin, Ojibwe Language
2. The article on Ojibwe grammar on the French Wikipedia
3. Gikendandaa Ojibwemowin! has lists of different classes of verbs in PDF format, collected from Weshki online ojibwe dictionary

Additional sources to peruse

• Ojibwe Vocabulary Project, Working Session July 6-8, 2009. Lots of words, but it appears that the encoding is a bit weird and thus hard to export data from the PDF.
• Kwayaciiwiin has some very big, free dictionaries in both latin and canadian syllabics, and verbs are marked in a roundabout way (otherwise no PoS and inflectional category information)
• Anton Truer at Bemidji state has collected a fair amount of resources and wordlists, which are published online, however it may be that he would be willing to donate plaintext wordlists as well.

In-source documentation

Below is an autogenerated list of documentation pages built from structured comments in the source code. All pages are also concatenated and can be read as one long text here.