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Endangered Languages

There is no centralised list of open-source code that would be useful for documenting, conserving, developing, preserving, or working with endangered languages. According to some estimates, half of the 7,000~ currently spoken languages are expected to become extinct this century (Wikipedia). However, there is a lot of work by academics, independant scholars, organizations, communities, and individuals which goes towards stopping or slowing this trend. This list is intended to provide a central location to document those efforts.

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Definitions

Endangered languages are human languages that are in danger of extinction. This list also encompasses minority languages - languages which are spoken by a stable, but small, population (for example, Maltese or Hawai'ian); and low- or under-resourced languages, which are spoken by a significant population but under-represented on the web (for instance, Quechua). These languages share certain characteristics in common; the most pertinent is sparse data and a lack of resources, ranging from spell-checkers to grammars to machine translation corpora. Other under-resourced languages that do not fall under this list include constructed languages (for instance, Klingon or Na'vi), computer languages (for instance, Javascript or Lua), and extinct languages that are so sparse as to be rendered computationally irrelevant for most purposes (for instance, Tocharian).

Open Source "promotes a universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone." (Wiki). This is important because money and resources allocated towards a language or project that are not open source is spent at the expense of possible extensibility elsewhere.

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Generic Repositories

##Massive Dictionary and Lexicography projects

  • ABVD Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
  • CBOLD Comparative Bantu OnLine Dictionary
  • IE Indo-european comparitive lexical resource
  • REFLEX a comparative dictionary project for Africa based out of CNRS in France.
  • Southeast Asian lexicography Several Southeast Asian lexicons hosted.
  • STEDT Tibeto-burman focused project where dictionaries from several languages are comparable.
  • Tibeto-burman lexicography

##Single language lexicography projects and utilities ###Utilities

  • DictionaryChromeExtension GitHub stars Dictionary for websites in low-resource languages. App and codebase which connects to a Wiktionary to provide definitions of any term on any website (current languages Cherokee 194,426 entries, Inuktitut 251 entries, Kartuli 7,363 entries, Plains Cree (incubation) 0 entries)
  • Project for Free Electronic Dictionaries Is a project for a java MIDlet for mobile phones - for indigenous language dictionaries.
  • Webonary Site which hosts digital dictionaries for single languages.
  • WeSay GitHub stars Allows language communities to build their own dictionaries. http://wesay.org (by the SIL International)

###Interactions and presentations of data

##Software

  • accentuate.us a.k.a. "charlifter". Statistical Unicodification of plain text for many languages
  • AGTK AGTK is a suite of software components for building tools for annotating linguistic signals, time-series data which documents any kind of linguistic behavior (e.g. audio, video). The internal data structures are based on annotation graphs.
  • Anki GitHub stars Anki is a program to make and share flaschard decks (including audio) for any language or writing system. http://ankisrs.net/
  • ANNIS Search and Visualization in Multilayer Linguistic Corpora
  • Apertium Apertium is a toolbox to build open-source shallow-transfer machine translation systems, especially suitable for related language pairs: it includes the engine, maintenance tools, and open linguistic data for several language pairs.
  • ark-tweet-nlp GitHub stars CMU ARK Twitter Part-of-Speech Tagger (Fork)
  • bayesline GitHub stars A Multinomial Bayesian Classification for Language Identification
  • BloomDesktop GitHub stars Bloom Desktop is a hybrid c#/javascript/html/css Windows application that dramatically "lowers the bar" for language communities who want books in their own languages. Bloom delivers a low-training, high-output system where mother tongue speakers and their advocates work together to foster both community authorship and access to external materia… http://bloomlibrary.org/
  • brain GitHub stars Neural networks in JavaScript
  • cdec GitHub stars Decoder, aligner, and model optimizer for statistical machine translation and other structured prediction models based on (mostly) context-free formalisms http://cdec-decoder.org/
  • charlint Charlint is a character normalization/checking tool written in Perl. Among else, it implements Normalization Form C of Unicode TR 15, as a test platform for Early Uniform Normalization in the W3C Character Model.
  • clam GitHub stars Computational Linguistics Application Mediator -- Quickly turn NLP applications into RESTful webservices with a web-application front-end. You provide a specification of your command line application, its input, output and parameters, and CLAM wraps around your application to form a fully fledged RESTful webservice.
  • clld GitHub stars The clld python package is a toolkit to build cross-linguistic databases. A list of databases built with it is available at http://clld.org/datasets.html
  • Cog GitHub stars Cog is a tool for comparing languages using lexicostatistics and comparative linguistics techniques. It can be used to automate much of the process of comparing word lists from different language varieties. http://sillsdev.github.io/cog/
  • CorpusTools GitHub stars Phonological CorpusTools http://phonologicalcorpustools.github.io/CorpusTools/
  • CTK Built around LDC's champollion sentence aligner kernel, Champollion Tool Kit (CTK) aims to providing ready-to-use parallel text sentence alignment tools for as many language pairs as possible.
  • CuPED CuPED ('Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents') is a tool for transforming time-aligned transcripts, such as those produced by ELAN, into a variety of presentation formats.
  • DataTags GitHub stars A system to assess the sensitivity and privacy risk of a dataset, and assign a tag to describe how the dataset must be transfered, stored and accessed. (Fork)
  • dataverse GitHub stars A data repository framework to share and publish research data.
  • dative GitHub stars A single-page application that interacts with multiple linguistic fieldwork web service databases.
  • DeepLearnToolbox GitHub stars Matlab/Octave toolbox for deep learning. Includes Deep Belief Nets, Stacked Autoencoders, Convolutional Neural Nets, Convolutional Autoencoders and vanilla Neural Nets. Each method has examples to get you started.
  • Desmeme GitHub stars Database and tools for exploring linguistic templates
  • dictdb GitHub stars dictionary database for language translation
  • discoursegraphs GitHub stars Python-based tool to convert and merge multilayer annotated linguistic data
  • DLTK GitHub stars Deutsch Language Tool Kit http://goo.gl/wdnz1W
  • ELAN ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources.
  • ELDER: Endangered Language Data Electronic Repository GitHub stars Endangered Language Data Electronic Repository: A web-based ontologically-compliant collaborative linguistic data cataloguing tool.
  • EMMA A Novel Evaluation Metric for Morphological Analysis
  • eopas GitHub stars ETHNOER Online Presentation and Annotation System
  • FieldWorks GitHub stars FieldWorks is a suite of software tools for language and cultural data, with support for complex scripts. http://fieldworks.sil.org/
  • FLEx / FieldWorks GitHub stars FieldWorks is popular a suite of software tools for language and cultural data, with support for complex scripts. http://fieldworks.sil.org/ FieldWorks Language Explorer (or FLEx, for short) is designed to help field linguists perform many common language documentation and analysis tasks. It can help you: elicit and record lexical information, create dictionaries, interlinearize texts, analyze discourse features, study morphology
  • Gaia GitHub stars Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G. If you're interested in setting up a keyboard in new language, see this.
  • Glottolog data GitHub stars Glottolog provides comprehensive reference information for the world's languages. The data published in Glottolog is curated in https://github.com/clld/glottolog-data
  • graf-python GitHub stars The library graf-python is an open source Python implemenation to parse and write GrAF/XML files as described in ISO 24612. The parser of the library creates an annotation graph from the files. The user may then query the annotation graph via the API of graf-python.
  • Gramadóir Grammar checking engine that is designed for the rapid development of grammar checkers for minority languages and other languages with limited computational resources.
  • https://github.com/hyphenliu/cnminlangwebcollect GitHub stars Chinese minorities website languages detection and websites collection
  • https://github.com/leebock/languages GitHub stars Application files for the Smithsonian endangered languages story map.
  • iLanguageCloud GitHub stars An HTML5/Android word cloud generation codebase
  • itweets-geodata GitHub stars Geodata from Indigenous Tweets
  • koreksyon GitHub stars Tools for developing and implementing spell-checking and grammar-checking capabilities in low-resource languages
  • l20n.js GitHub stars L20n reinvents software localization. Users should be able to benefit from the entire expressive power of natural languages. L20n keeps simple things simple, and at the same time makes complex things possible. This is the JavaScript implementation of L20n. http://l20n.org
  • langtech A host of resources provided in SVN by the University of Tromsø. Details are here and in English here.
  • LDC Word Aligner LDC Word Aligner is a software tool used for manual annotation of word alignment developed to support Arabic-English and Chinese-English word alignment tasks. It has a clean, easy-to-use interface. Since its development in 2009, LDC has used LDC Word Aligner to generate over 1,000,000 tokens of annotated word alignment data from a variety of genres including broadcast, newswire and web-based sources.
  • LEGO Unified Concepticon GitHub stars Material relating to the LEGO Unified Concepticon
  • Lex4All GitHub stars pronunciation LEXicons for Any Low-resource Language http://lex4all.github.io/lex4all/
  • LinGO Grammar Matrix The LinGO Grammar Matrix is a framework for the development of broad-coverage, precision, implemented grammars for diverse languages.
  • Lingpy GitHub stars LingPy: Python library for quantitative tasks in historical linguistics http://lingpy.org
  • Linguistica Linguistica is a program designed to explore the unsupervised learning of natural language, with primary focus on morphology (word-structure). It runs under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and is written in C++ within the Qt development framework. Its demands on memory depend on the size of the corpus analyzed.
  • lrl GitHub stars For work concerning low resource languages.
  • Machine GitHub stars Machine is a natural language processing library for .NET that is focused on providing tools for processing resource-poor languages (used by FLEx)
  • Make-extensions GitHub stars Scripts for generating hunspell spellchecking extensions
  • Minority Translate Minority Translate is a simple program for helping content generation on smaller sized Wikipedias (actually any sized) by giving pointers to existing articles in other language Wikipedias, so that the user can easily translate or adapt existing texts and thus increase the size and useability of their Wikipedia editions.
  • morfessor GitHub stars Morfessor is a tool for unsupervised and semi-supervised morphological segmentation
  • moz-l10n-tiers GitHub stars Creates a pseudo-locale to evaluate string prioritization for l10n
  • Natural GitHub stars Javascript general natural language facilities for node
  • NIST 2008 Open Machine Translation Evalutation
  • NLTK GitHub stars Python Natural Language Tool Kit. NLTK Source http://nltk.github.com/
  • node-panlex GitHub stars node.js client for PanLex
  • norma GitHub stars A tool for automatic spelling normalization
  • octothorpe GitHub stars CouchDB-powered wiki thing
  • ogoki iPhone & iPad template source code (as a .zip) for language learning. The app built and open sourced by the ogokilearning.com company who also offers developer training for first nations apps.
  • old-webapp GitHub stars Online Linguistic Database --- software for creating web applications to collaboratively document languages.http://www.onlinelinguisticdatabase.org
  • OpenDataKit Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source suite of tools that helps organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions
  • panlex-tools GitHub stars This package contains scripts to transform lexical resources into a format suitable for importing into PanLex. Documentation may be found at http://dev.panlex.org/tools/
  • pepper GitHub stars Pepper is a pluggable, Java-based, open source converter framework for linguistic data.
  • poio-analyzer GitHub stars Poio is a collection of software tools for linguists working in language documentation, descriptive linguistics and/or language typology. It allows linguists to manage and analyze their data. The Poio Interlinear Editor allows to add morpho-syntactic annotations to transcriptions. It supports various file formats for input, but will only output standardized XML defined by the Corpus Encoding Standard and the Text Encoding Initiative. Several tools for analyzing linguistic data will be made available to further process annotated data. Poio tools are written in Python and are based on PyQt.
  • poio-api GitHub stars Poio API is a free and open source Python library to access and search data from language documentation in your linguistic analysis workflow. It converts file formats like Elan’s EAF, Toolbox files, Typecraft XML and others into annotation graphs as defined in ISO 24612. Those graphs, for which we use an implementation called “Graph Annotation F… http://media.cidles.eu/poio/poio-api
  • poio-corpus GitHub stars The Poio Corpus is a freely available collection of language resources for the lesser-used languages. The data is extracted from free sources like Wikipedia, dictionaries, documents, websites and others.
  • poio-doc GitHub stars Documentation of the Poio project.http://www.poio.eu
  • poio-site GitHub stars The website of the Poio project - http://www.poio.eu
  • pressagio GitHub stars Pressagio is a library that predicts text based on n-gram models. For example, you can send a string and the library will return the most likely word completions for the last token in the string.
  • pyannotation GitHub stars PyAnnotation is a Python Library to access and manipulate linguistically annotated corpus files.
  • PyAnnotationGraph GitHub stars Implement the formal model for linguistic annotations described in Bird and Liberman (2001) using Python and SQL
  • pyDelphin GitHub stars Python libraries for DELPH-IN (Friendly Fork)
  • Rosetta Pangloss GitHub stars The Rosetta Project's Pangloss system
  • Salt GitHub stars A graph-based model to store and manipulate linguistic data.
  • Secwepemc-Facebook GitHub stars Translate Facebook into unsupported languages
  • SeedLing GitHub stars Building and Using A Seed Corpus for the Human Language Project
  • Skype in your language Translate Skype into unsupported languages
  • SPHERE Conversion Tools Many LDC corpora contain speech files in NIST SPHERE format. The programs below convert SPHERE files to other formats.
  • Stanford CoreNLP Python GitHub stars Python wrapper for Stanford CoreNLP tools
  • sugali GitHub stars This is a legacy repository of the language identification project for many (many) languages project for the software project course, NLP projects for low-resource languages.
  • SuGarLike GitHub stars Language Identification for Low Resource Languages (by Susanne, Guy and Liling)
  • TeraDict GitHub stars Translate English words into hundreds of languages!
  • TexNLP GitHub stars TexNLP: Texas Natural Language Processing tools
  • Toney GitHub stars Tone Classification Software
  • Toolbox Scripts for ELAN GitHub stars Mirror of Alexander Koenig's Toolbox Scripts https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/thirdparty/
  • ToolsForFieldLinguistics GitHub stars A collection of scripts and recipes for linguistics
  • translitit-engine GitHub stars A transliteration engine written in JavaScript
  • Tsammalex data GitHub stars Tsammalex is a multilingual lexical database on plants and animals. The data published on the Tsammalex website is curated collaboratively at https://github.com/clld/tsammalex-data
  • tweet2learn GitHub stars An app to make it easier to use your native language on Twitter
  • Unicodify Unicodify is a suite of programs for converting text in a variety of 8-bit encodings to Unicode (using the UTF-16 encoding). Unicodify was particularly designed to handle HTML-based text using non-ISCII 8-bit fonts to render South Asian scripts. However, elements of the suite can map other types of non-ASCII 8-bit encodings, such as Latin-2, ISCII and PASCII.
  • UniversalDependencies docs GitHub stars Universal Dependencies online documentation http://universaldependencies.github.io/docs/
  • UniversalDependencies tools GitHub stars Various utilities for processing the data.
  • wavesurfer.js GitHub stars Navigable waveform built on Web Audio and Canvas http://www.wavesurfer.fm (Also has an ELAN plugin)
  • WeSay GitHub stars Allows language communities to build their own dictionaries. http://wesay.org (by the SIL International)
  • WordBoundary GitHub stars An experiment in the detection and segmentation of word boundaries
  • wordbyword GitHub stars WordByWord is a free, open source, easy-to-use multimedia vocabulary trainer developed by Vera Ferreira, Peter Bouda, and Ricardo Filipe at CIDLeS with the support of the Foundation for Endangered Languages.
  • WSI4URLang GitHub stars Word Sense Induction (WSI) for Under-resourced Languages (URLang) http://www.mohammadnasiruddin.eu/under-resourced-language-urlang.html
  • XDXF_Makedict GitHub stars XDXF dictionary format and "makedict" dictionary converting software (official repository)
  • XTrans Trans is a next generation multi-platform, multilingual, multi-channel transcription tool that supports manual transcription and annotation of audio recordings. The XTrans toolkit provides new and efficient solutions to common transcription challenges and addresses critical gaps in existing tools.Designed with input from experienced human transcribers working with real world data, XTrans provides a flexible and intuitive graphical user interface for a multitude of speech annotation tasks including (virtual) segmentation of audio into smaller units like turns and sentences; speaker identification; orthographic transcription in any language; and labeling of structural elements of the transcript like topics.

i18n-related Repositories

  • Polyglot.js Give your JavaScript the ability to speak many languages.
  • Transifex - System for providing a nice, userfriendly/project oriented approach to translating .po files. Great for non-technical users, free for open-source projects, decent for minority languages; however, it can take a while to get a new language added to the Transifex system because the ticketing system Transifex uses results in them losing tickets sometimes. Provides translation memory, ability to appoint reviewers, etc. Transifex used to have an open source system that you could host on your own, but that seems to have disappeared.

Audio automation

  • arctic-prompts GitHub stars Generate prompts PDF for CMU ARCTIC dataset
  • AudioWebService GitHub stars a simple nodejs server which accepts upload of audio and runs it through praat
  • AuToBI GitHub stars Automatic prosodic annotation tool written in Java.
  • BashScriptsForPhonetics GitHub stars (Fork of a dormant project)
  • esv-text-audio-aligner GitHub stars ESV Text/Audio Aligner to programmatically obtain the timings for each word in the corresponding audio
  • et-pocketsphinx-tutorial GitHub stars Tutorial of Estonian speech recognition using PocketSphinx
  • html5-audio-read-along GitHub stars HTML5 Audio Read-Along
  • ipa-chart GitHub stars International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Unicode Chart and Character Picker
  • lex4all GitHub stars pronunciation LEXicons for Any Low-resource Language (Fork of a student project)
  • opensauce GitHub stars GNU Octave-compatible version of VoiceSauce
  • pocketsphinx.js GitHub stars Speech recognition in JavaScript
  • praat-py GitHub stars From my PhD days: Praat-Py is a custom build of Praat, the computer program used by linguists for doing phonetic analysis on sound files, to allow for scripts to be written in the Python programming language, rather than in Praat's built-in language. (Fork of a dormant project)
  • Praat-Scripts GitHub stars Mietta's Scripts
  • PraatTextGridJS GitHub stars A small library which can parse TextGrid into json and json into TextGrid
  • prosodicParsing GitHub stars different kinds of HMMs to use for incorporating prosody into basic parsing
  • Prosodylab-Aligner GitHub stars Python interface for forced audio alignment using HTK and SoX
  • prosodylab.alignertools GitHub stars
  • Recordmp3js GitHub stars Record MP3 files directly from the browser using JS and HTML

Text automation

  • clld GitHub stars Cross Linguistic Linked Data python library
  • LaTeX2HTML5 GitHub stars LaTeX web components
  • MultilingualCorporaExtractor GitHub stars Node io Spider for extracting multilingual corpora (Fork of a student project)
  • SeedLing GitHub stars Building and Using A Seed Corpus for the Human Language Project (Fork of a student project)

Experimentation

  • experigen GitHub stars A framework for creating linguistic experiments
  • GamifyPsycholinguisticsExperiments GitHub stars A simple node server to gamify linguistics experiments, runs offline on a laptop for small scale experiements and online on a server for large scale experiments. Data is sent to a Google spreadsheet. (Fork of a dormant project)
  • OpenSesame GitHub stars Graphical experiment builder for the social sciences
  • OPrime GitHub stars Open Source Experimentation Libraries - Online and Offline for Android and HTML5
  • psychopyMegProsody GitHub stars Runs MegProsody using PsychoPy.
  • PsychScript GitHub stars A HTML5/Javascript library for running behavioural experiments online.

Natural language generation

  • hailo GitHub stars A conversation bot using Markov chains

Computing systems

Android Applications

Chrome Extensions

  • babelfrog GitHub stars Chrome extension to help learn languages as you browse.
  • DictionaryChromeExtension GitHub stars Dictionary for websites in low-resource languages. App and codebase which connects to a Wiktionary to provide definitions of any term on any website (current languages Cherokee 194,426 entries, Inuktitut 251 entries, Kartuli 7,363 entries, Plains Cree (incubation) 0 entries) use
  • KartuliChromeExtension GitHub stars Codebase to turn any webpage from any alphabet into another alphabet, the default is to turn latin letters into Kartuli. use "Do your friends keep commenting on Facebook with English keyboards (either because they forgot to switch, or because they didn't/can't install a Georgian keyboard)? Now you can read the web through კართული eyes."

FieldDB

FieldDB is actively worked on by the [https://github.com/OpenSourceFieldlinguistics] group. These repos explicitly work with it but could be repurposed for other projects.

  • FieldDB GitHub stars An offline/online field database which adapts to its user's terminology and I-Language, has plugins for various data automation routines along the process of primary data collection to cleaning to publication and archival. use

FieldDB Webservices/Components/Plugins

Academic Research Paper-Specific Repositories

  • Gargantua Fast Unsupervised Sentence Aligner described in "Improved unsupervised sentence alignment for symmetrical and asymmetrical parallel corpora", COLING 2010.
  • ldc-kiy GitHub stars Materials for: The experimental state of mind in elicitation: illustrations from tonal fieldwork. Dubmitted to Language Documentation & Conservation, How to study a tone language.
  • Learning to map into a Univerisal POS tagset Yuan Zhang, Roi Reichart, Regina Barzilay and Amir Globerson
  • low-resource-pos-tagging-2013 GitHub stars and low-resource-pos-tagging-2013 Published in: Learning a Part-of-Speech Tagger from Two Hours of Annotation. Dan Garrette and Jason Baldridge. In Proceedings of NAACL 2013. And in: Real-World Semi-Supervised Learning of POS-Taggers for Low-Resource Languages. Dan Garrette, Jason Mielens, and Jason Baldridge. In Proceedings of ACL 2013.
  • orthotree GitHub stars Linguistic family tree based on orthographic distance
  • type-supervised-tagging-2012emnlp GitHub stars This repository contains the code, scripts, and instructions needed to reproduce the results in the paper: Type-Supervised Hidden Markov Models for Part-of-Speech Tagging with Incomplete Tag Dictionaries. Dan Garrette and Jason Baldridge. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2012. This code is frozen as of the version used to obtain the results in the paper. It will not be maintained. To see the updated code, visit nlp
  • visualizing-language GitHub stars For visualizations of WALS and other typological databases
  • WALS-APiCS GitHub stars Code for working with WALS-APiCS (Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures) complexity metrics

Example Repositories

These are repositories that are generally only interesting for training purposes or seeing how something is done.

Language & Code Interfaces

  • قلب GitHub stars ‬ is a simple, Scheme-like programming language that you code entirely in Arabic. It is an exploration of the impact of human culture on computer science, the role of tradition in software engineering, and the connection between natural and computer languages.

Organisations

On GitHub

  • batumi GitHub stars Speech recognition and natural language processing for low-resource languages
  • lex4all GitHub stars
  • longnow GitHub stars
  • NLTK GitHub stars http://nltk.github.com/
  • OpenSourceFieldLinguistics GitHub stars
  • PhonologicalCorpusTools GitHub stars
  • Projet de recherche sur l'écriture GitHub stars crowdsourcing or conducting large scale psycholinguistics experiments (or statistically significant field linguistics)
  • SIL International GitHub stars SIL International SIL (originally known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.) is probably the leading organization which provides software and tools tailored for use by field linguists and lexicographers working on endangered languages. A little known fact is that much of it's code is open sourced on GitHub and SIL is happy to recieve open source contributions and collaborate on open source projects.
  • SIL NRSI GitHub stars SIL Non-Roman Script Initiative. The NRSI is a department of SIL International, whose task is to provide assistance, research and development for SIL International and its partners to support the use of non-Roman and complex scripts in language development.

Other OSS Organisations

Language Specific Projects

###Amharic

amh :: አማርኛ

  • HornMorpho GitHub stars - morphological analysis and generation of Amharic and Oromo verbs and nouns and Tigrinya verbs

###Arabic

ara :: العربية

  • Buckwalter GitHub stars A small python script that transliterates Arabic text using the Buckwalter Transliteration Scheme. It allows for multiple decisions to be made around whether or not to include all types of diacritics and characters or ignore them. Useful for NLP experiments where you may want to normalize text.

###Bengali

ben :: বাংলা

  • Bangla-অঙ্কুর for Mac This project aims to develop a phonetic based Bangla typing system for Macintosh computer which can be developed into a transliteration technique in the future.
  • Bengali Writer `Bengali Writer' is a set of utilities for computerized editing and typesetting in Bengali, a language of India and Bangladesh. It comprises a set of fonts for Bengali in several formats (METAFONT, BDF, PS), a text editor with spell-cheking, export, and more.
  • Ekushey Bangla Computing and Localization Project for the Bangla speaking people.
  • Lekho A collection of tools and resources for using bangla on computers

###Chichewa

nya :: chicheŵa

###Georgian

kat :: ქართული

###Guarani

grn :: Guarani

  • ParaMorfo GitHub stars - morphological analysis and generation of Spanish and Guarani verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Used to be here.

###Hindi

hin :: हिन्दी

  • hindi-morph GitHub stars An open source morphological analyzer for Hindi

###Høgnorsk

nno :: Høgnorsk

  • hunspell-hn_NO GitHub stars A beginning to a spellchecking tool for Høgnorsk, a conservative variant of Norwegian Nynorsk, based on a set of corpuses.

###Inuktitut

_iku :: Inuktitut

###Irish

gle :: Gaeilge

###Japanese

jpn :: 日本語

  • kuromoji GitHub stars Kuromoji is a self-contained and very easy to use Japanese morphological analyzer designed for search
  • kuromoji-server GitHub stars Kuromoji server and demo that shows Japanese morphological analyzer capabilities

###Kinyarwanda

kin :: Ikinyarwanda

###Korean

kor :: 한국어

###Lingala

lin :: Lingála

###Malay

###Malagasy

mlg :: Malagasy

  • Global Voices Malagasy Project This page provides a link to a corpus of parallel news articles in Malagasy and English from the Global Voices project. This corpus was collected and aligned at the sentence level by Victor Chahuneau.

###Migmaq

mic :: Mi'kmaq

###Minderico

###Nishnaabe

_oji :: Ojibwe, Oddawa, Chippewa, Anishinaabemowin, ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒧᐎᓐ

  • Ojibway-iphone-app An iPhone app with audio and images for learning the Ojibway language.
  • OjibwayMap An iPhone app with audio and images for learning Ojibway language and culture.
  • nishanimate GitHub stars A desktop app to facilitate Nishnaabe-language acquisition via animations produced by the natural language processing of audio-accompanied text.

###Oromo

orm :: Oromo

  • hornmorpho GitHub stars morphological analysis and generation of amharic and oromo verbs and nouns and tigrinya verbs

###Quechua

que :: Runa Simi

  • AntiMorfo GitHub stars - morphological analysis and generation of Quechua nouns, adjectives, and verbs and Spanish verbs
  • Morphology, spellchecker - XFST and FOMA, plus OpenOffice plugin.

###Sami

sma :: Sámi/Saami

  • Divvun Sámi proofing tools. This links to the documentation page, which explains how to access the svn repository.
  • Giellatekno A host of Sámi tools.
  • Mobile keyboards (iOS and Android), learning apps, dictionaries, morphologies, syntax disambiguators, some amount of project collaboration with Apertium on shallow translation between Saami languages, and
  • Oahpa! - A learning portal for Saami languages. Includes WordPress based, media rich lesson-based learning, and morphological and syntactic exercizes generated from the morphological and syntactic tools
  • Gïelese - A media learning application for South Saami, including images, sound and animation for learning basic phrases and core vocabulary. JavaScript application, playable on the web or via PhoneGap apps in Android or iOS.
  • Neahttadigisánit - A morphologically sensitive dictionary, with modes for 'social media input' (which allows users to type a 'relaxed' version of the orthography (acdnstz will be recognized also as áčđŋšŧz̄), and also includes a JavaScript bookmarklet to offer click-to-read dictionary lookup functionality. Also available for other Uralic, and non-Uralic languages. Giellatekno does a lot for other minority Uralic languages. Following are some keywords for CTRL+F friendliness:
  • Saami languages: North Saami, Lule Saami, South Saami // Inari Saami, Kildin Saami, Pite Saami, Skolt Saami.
  • Other Uralic languages: Erzya, Finnish, Hill Mari, Ingrian, Khanty, Kven, Komi, Livonian, Meadow Mari, Moksha, Nenets, Nganasan, Olonetsian, Udmurt, Veps.
  • Other languages: Buriat, Cornish, Faroese, Greenlandic, Iñupiaq, Northern Haida, Ojibwe, Plains Cree, Russian.

###Scottish Gaelic

gla :: Gàidhlig

  • hunspell-gd GitHub stars Files for building Scottish Gaelic spell checkers

###Secwepemctsín

###Somali

som :: Soomaaliga

  • somorph GitHub stars Somali morphological and syntactic analyzers and generators built on XFST and VISL-CG Constraint Grammar. Up to date version checked in in Giellatekno's repository.
  • qaamuus.so morphologically aware dictionary based on lexical resources found online, and the somali morphology.

###Tigrinya

tir :: ትግርኛ

  • HornMorpho GitHub stars morphological analysis and generation of Amharic and Oromo verbs and nouns and Tigrinya verbs

###Zulu

zul :: zulu

  • Ukwabelana An open-source morphological Zulu corpus

Closed Source Resources

  • Noto Fonts Noto is Google’s free font family that aims to support all the world’s scripts. Its design goal is to achieve visual harmonization across languages. Noto fonts are under Apache License 2.0.