A COMPARATIVE STUDY of ENGLISH and KURDISH CONNECTIVES in NEWSPAPER OPINION ARTICLES Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor
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Unicode Request for Cyrillic Modifier Letters Superscript Modifiers
Unicode request for Cyrillic modifier letters L2/21-107 Kirk Miller, [email protected] 2021 June 07 This is a request for spacing superscript and subscript Cyrillic characters. It has been favorably reviewed by Sebastian Kempgen (University of Bamberg) and others at the Commission for Computer Supported Processing of Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Cyrillic-based phonetic transcription uses superscript modifier letters in a manner analogous to the IPA. This convention is widespread, found in both academic publication and standard dictionaries. Transcription of pronunciations into Cyrillic is the norm for monolingual dictionaries, and Cyrillic rather than IPA is often found in linguistic descriptions as well, as seen in the illustrations below for Slavic dialectology, Yugur (Yellow Uyghur) and Evenki. The Great Russian Encyclopedia states that Cyrillic notation is more common in Russian studies than is IPA (‘Transkripcija’, Bol’šaja rossijskaja ènciplopedija, Russian Ministry of Culture, 2005–2019). Unicode currently encodes only three modifier Cyrillic letters: U+A69C ⟨ꚜ⟩ and U+A69D ⟨ꚝ⟩, intended for descriptions of Baltic languages in Latin script but ubiquitous for Slavic languages in Cyrillic script, and U+1D78 ⟨ᵸ⟩, used for nasalized vowels, for example in descriptions of Chechen. The requested spacing modifier letters cannot be substituted by the encoded combining diacritics because (a) some authors contrast them, and (b) they themselves need to be able to take combining diacritics, including diacritics that go under the modifier letter, as in ⟨ᶟ̭̈⟩BA . (See next section and e.g. Figure 18. ) In addition, some linguists make a distinction between spacing superscript letters, used for phonetic detail as in the IPA tradition, and spacing subscript letters, used to denote phonological concepts such as archiphonemes. -
CLIB 2016 Proceedings
The Second International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2016) is organised within the Operation for Support for International Scientific Conferences Held in Bulgaria of the National Science Fund Grant № ДПМНФ 01/9 of 11 Aug 2016. National Science Fund CLIB 2016 is organised by: The Department of Computational Linguistics, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences PUBLICATION AND CATALOGUING INFORMATION Title: Proceedings of the Second International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2016) ISSN: 23675675 (online) Published and The Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir distributed by: Andreychin, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Editorial address: Institute for Bulgarian Language Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 52 Shipchenski prohod blvd., bldg. 17 Sofia 1113, Bulgaria +359 2/ 872 23 02 Copyright of each paper stays with the respective authors. The works in the Proceedings are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Licence details: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Proceedings of the Second International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria 9 September 2016 Sofia, Bulgaria PREFACE We are excited to welcome you to the second edition of the International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2016) in Sofia, Bulgaria! CLIB aspires to foster the NLP community in Bulgaria and further the cooperation among researchers working in NLP for Bulgarian around the world. The need for a conference dedicated to NLP research dealing with or applicable to Bulgarian has been felt for quite some time. We believe that building a strong community of researchers and teams who have chosen to work on Bulgarian is a key factor to meeting the challenges and requirements posed to computational linguistics and NLP in Bulgaria. -
Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics 1 Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics
Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics 1 Songül Gündoğdu, Ergin Öpengin, Geofrey Haig, Erik Anonby (eds.) Current issues in Kurdish linguistics Current issues in Kurdish linguistics 1 Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics Bamberg Studies in Kurdish Linguistics Series Editor: Geofrey Haig Editorial board: Erik Anonby, Ergin Öpengin, Ludwig Paul Volume 1 2019 Current issues in Kurdish linguistics Songül Gündoğdu, Ergin Öpengin, Geofrey Haig, Erik Anonby (eds.) 2019 Bibliographische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deut schen Nationalbibliographie; detaillierte bibliographische Informationen sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de/ abrufbar. Diese Veröff entlichung wurde im Rahmen des Elite-Maststudiengangs „Kul- turwissenschaften des Vorderen Orients“ durch das Elitenetzwerk Bayern ge- fördert, einer Initiative des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst. Die Verantwortung für den Inhalt dieser Veröff entlichung liegt bei den Auto- rinnen und Autoren. Dieses Werk ist als freie Onlineversion über das Forschungsinformations- system (FIS; https://fi s.uni-bamberg.de) der Universität Bamberg erreichbar. Das Werk – ausgenommen Cover, Zitate und Abbildungen – steht unter der CC-Lizenz CC-BY. Lizenzvertrag: Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Herstellung und Druck: Digital Print Group, Nürnberg Umschlaggestaltung: University of Bamberg Press © University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg 2019 http://www.uni-bamberg.de/ubp/ ISSN: 2698-6612 ISBN: 978-3-86309-686-1 (Druckausgabe) eISBN: 978-3-86309-687-8 (Online-Ausgabe) URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-opus4-558751 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irbo-55875 Acknowledgements This volume contains a selection of contributions originally presented at the Third International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL3), University of Ams- terdam, in August 2016. -
The University of Chicago Making Kurdish Public(S)
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MAKING KURDISH PUBLIC(S): LANGUAGE POLITICS AND PRACTICE IN TURKEY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE DIVISION OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY BY KELDA ANN JAMISON CHICAGO, ILLINOIS DECEMBER 2015 Copyright © 2015 Kelda Ann Jamison All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................. v ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................................................... ix CHAPTER ONE ................................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 1 Research Design and Ethnographic Context................................................................................... 7 The Conundrum of Kurdish Literacy: or, Who Gets to Have an Illiteracy Problem? ............... 12 “We Are Frankly Nationalist”: Creating the Modern Turkish Nation-State .............................. 19 “A Sacred Treasure”: Turkish Language Reforms and Policies across the 20th Century .......... 30 Chapter Summaries ........................................................................................................................ 43 CHAPTER TWO ............................................................................................................................... -
Towards Kurdish Text to Sign Translation
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, pages 117–122 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), Marseille, 11–16 May 2020 c European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC Towards Kurdish Text to Sign Translation Zina Kamal, Hossein Hassani University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, University of Kurdistan Hewlêr Kurdistan Region - Iraq, Kurdistan Region - Iraq {z.kamal3, hosseinh}@ukh.edu.krd Abstract The resources and technologies for sign language processing of resourceful languages are emerging, while the low-resource languages are falling behind. Kurdish is a multi-dialect language, and it is considered a low-resource language. It is spoken by approximately 30 million people in several countries, which denotes that it has a large community with hearing-impairments as well. This paper reports on a project which aims to develop the necessary data and tools to process the sign language for Sorani as one of the spoken Kurdish dialects. We present the results of developing a dataset in HamNoSys and its corresponding SiGML form for the Kurdish Sign lexicon. We use this dataset to implement a sign-supported Kurdish tool to check the accuracy of the sign lexicon. We tested the tool by presenting it to hearing-impaired individuals. The experiment showed that 100% of the translated letters were understandable by a hearing-impaired person. The percentages were 65% for isolated words, and approximately 30% for the words in sentences. The data is publicly available at https://github.com/KurdishBLARK/KurdishSignLanguage for non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. -
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vllg.com LoCAL Gothic SCHWARTZCO Local Gothic ABOUT vllg.com Details / 2005 GIORGIO SANS was designed by Christian Schwartz. It is available as a cross-platform, feature-rich OpenType font. Giorgio Sans is available in Roman & Italic with eight feature-rich weights with plenty of stylistic alternates. Please contact us for information on webfonts licensing. SUPPORTED LANGUAGES SO 8859–1 / LATIN 1 Local Gothic offers extensive language support… Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, English (UK & US), Faroese, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish (new orthography), Italian, Kurdish (The Kurdish Unified Alphabet), Latin (basic classical orthography), Leonese, Luxembourgish (basic classical orthography), Norwegian (Bokmål & Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese (Portuguese & Brazilian), Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish & Walloon ISO 8859–2 / LATIN 2 Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (when in the Latin script), Slovak, Slovene, Upper Sorbian & Lower Sorbian ISO 8859–3 / LATIN 3 Esperanto, Maltese, Turkish ISO 8859–4 / LATIN 4 Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic & Sami ISO 8859–9 / LATIN 5 Turkish ISO 8859–10 / LATIN 6 Nordic languages SCHWARTZCO Local Gothic ABOUT vllg.com Local Gothic / page 1 of 3 WHILe i wAS iN COllEge i ToOk several cLasseS at pittsbuRgh FILmmakers, aND i HAd to wALK By A rallY’S HaMBuRGEr sTANd to get theRe. tHeIr SigN wAS amazing — it LOOked lIke they had bouGht theIr mOvaBle LETTerS ON thrEE or four SEpARate occasionS and DiDN’T CaRe that THeY didn’T mAtcH. IT gaVE me AN ideA For a veRY DIstressed typEFace that was made up Of comPletEly UndIstressed characTERs. tHe uNeveN texture Would Only be ApPareNT if You Looked at mULtiPLe characterS aT a TIme. -
Developments of the Lateral in Occitan Dialects and Their Romance and Cross-Linguistic Context Daniela Müller
Developments of the lateral in occitan dialects and their romance and cross-linguistic context Daniela Müller To cite this version: Daniela Müller. Developments of the lateral in occitan dialects and their romance and cross- linguistic context. Linguistics. Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2011. English. NNT : 2011TOU20122. tel-00674530 HAL Id: tel-00674530 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00674530 Submitted on 27 Feb 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. en vue de l’obtention du DOCTORATDEL’UNIVERSITÉDETOULOUSE délivré par l’université de toulouse 2 - le mirail discipline: sciences du langage zur erlangung der doktorwürde DERNEUPHILOLOGISCHENFAKULTÄT DERRUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄTHEIDELBERG présentée et soutenue par vorgelegt von DANIELAMÜLLER DEVELOPMENTS OF THE LATERAL IN OCCITAN DIALECTS ANDTHEIRROMANCEANDCROSS-LINGUISTICCONTEXT JURY Jonathan Harrington (Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Francesc Xavier Lamuela (Catedràtic, Universitat de Girona) Jean-Léonard Léonard (Maître de conférences HDR, Paris -
The Application of English Theories to Sorani Phonology
Durham E-Theses The Application of English Theories to Sorani Phonology AHMED, ZHWAN,OTHMAN How to cite: AHMED, ZHWAN,OTHMAN (2019) The Application of English Theories to Sorani Phonology, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13290/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk The Application of English Theories to Sorani Phonology Zhwan Othman Ahmed A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy School of Modern Languages and Cultures Durham University 2019 Abstract This thesis investigates phonological processes in Sorani Kurdish within the framework of Element Theory. It studies two main varieties of Sorani spoken in Iraq which are Slemani and Hawler. Since the phonology of SK is one of the least studied areas in Kurdish linguistics and the available studies provide different accounts of its segments, I start by introducing the segmental system of the SK dialect group. -
Reduplication: Form, Function and Distribution Carl Rubino
Reduplication: Form, function and distribution Carl Rubino The systematic repetition of phonological material within a word for se- mantic or grammatical purposes is known as reduplication, a widely used morphological device in a substantial number of the languages spanning the globe. This paper will provide an overview of the types of reduplicative constructions found in the languages of the world and the functions they portray. Finally, a subset of the world's languages, will be categorized as to whether or not they employ reduplicative constructions productively and illustrated in a world map'. 1. Form For purposes of the accompanying typological map, two types of reduplica- tion are distinguished based on the size of the reduplicant: full vs. partial. Full reduplication is the repetition of an entire word, word stem (root with one or more affixes), or root, e.g. Tausug (Austronesian, Philippines) full word lexical reduplication dayang 'madam' vs. dayangdayang 'princess'; laway 'saliva' vs. laway-laway 'land snail', or full root reduplication, shown here with the verbalizing affixes mag- and -(h)un which do not par- ticipate in the reduplication: mag-bichara 'speak' vs. mag-bichara-bichara 'spread rumors, gossip'; mag-tabid 'twist' vs mag-tabid-tabid 'make cas- sava rope confection'; suga-hun 'be heated by sun' vs. suga-suga-hiin 'de- velop prickly heat rash' (Hassan et al 1994). Partial reduplication may come in a variety of forms, from simple con- sonant gemination or vowel lengthening to a nearly complete copy of a base. In Pangasinan (Austronesian, Philippines) various forms of redupli- cation are used to form plural nouns. -
Creating Standards
Creating Standards Unauthenticated Download Date | 6/17/19 6:48 PM Studies in Manuscript Cultures Edited by Michael Friedrich Harunaga Isaacson Jörg B. Quenzer Volume 16 Unauthenticated Download Date | 6/17/19 6:48 PM Creating Standards Interactions with Arabic Script in 12 Manuscript Cultures Edited by Dmitry Bondarev Alessandro Gori Lameen Souag Unauthenticated Download Date | 6/17/19 6:48 PM ISBN 978-3-11-063498-3 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-063906-3 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-063508-9 ISSN 2365-9696 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019935659 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2019 Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori, Lameen Souag, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com Unauthenticated Download Date | 6/17/19 6:48 PM Contents The Editors Preface VII Transliteration of Arabic and some Arabic-based Script Graphemes used in this Volume (including Persian and Malay) IX Dmitry Bondarev Introduction: Orthographic Polyphony in Arabic Script 1 Paola Orsatti Persian Language in Arabic Script: The Formation of the Orthographic Standard and the Different Graphic Traditions of Iran in the First Centuries of -
Ke Ti Zu. (٢٠٠٨). Xian Dai Han Yu Chang Yong Ci Biao (Cao An). Beijing, Shan
.Xian dai Han yu chang yong ci biao (cao an). Beijing, Shang wu yin shu guan .(٢٠٠٨) .Xian dai Han yu chang yong ci biao" ke ti zu" .Istorii**a zhizni, istorii**a dushi. Moskva, Vozvrashchenie .(٢٠٠٨) .fron, A** al-Fikr al-*sawt*i *inda Ibn Durayd wa-al-K*uf*iy*in. Baghd*ad, D*ar al-Shu&#x٠٢bc;*un .(٢٠٠٨) .A*t*iyah, K. i. I. a. i* al-Thaq*af*iyah al-*Ammah. .Farhang-i v*azhg*an-i g*uyish*h*a-yi *Ir*an. Tihr*an, Ir*an, Nashr-i Haz*ar .(٢٠٠٨) .A*zarl*i, G. a. R. z. a* ,Ta*l*im al-lughah al-*Arab*iyah bi-istikhd*am al-*h*as*ub. Kafr al-Shaykh, Dis*uq, Egypt .(٢٠٠٨) .Abd al-L*ah, M. a. A. a.-K. a* al-*Ilm wa-al-*Im*an lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawz*i*. Tadr*is al-qir*a&#x٠٢bc;ah f*i *a*sr al-*awlamah : istir*at*ij*iy*at wa-as*al*ib jad*idah. Kafr .(٢٠٠٨) .Abd al-L*ah, M. a. A. a.-K. a* al-Shaykh, Dis*uq, Egypt, al-*Ilm wa-al-*Im*an lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawz*i*. .al-*Sawt al-lughaw*i wa-dal*al*atuhu f*i al-Qur**an al-Kar*im. Bayr*ut, D*ar wa-Maktabat al-Hil*al .(٢٠٠٨) .Abd All*ah, M. h. F. i* al-Bal*aghah al-*Arab*iyah wa-atharuh*a f*i nash*at al-bal*aghah al-F*aris*iyah .(٢٠٠٨) .Abd al-Mun*im, M. -
The Wili Benchmark Dataset for Written Natural Language Identification
1 The WiLI benchmark dataset for written II. WRITTEN LANGUAGE BASICS language identification A language is a system of communication. This could be spoken language, written language or sign language. A spoken language Martin Thoma can have several forms of written language. For example, the E-Mail: [email protected] spoken Chinese language has at least three writing systems: Traditional Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese characters and Pinyin — the official romanization system for Standard Chinese. Abstract—This paper describes the WiLI-2018 benchmark dataset for monolingual written natural language identification. Languages evolve. New words like googling, television and WiLI-2018 is a publicly available,1 free of charge dataset of Internet get added, but written languages are also refactored. short text extracts from Wikipedia. It contains 1000 paragraphs For example, the German orthography reform of 1996 aimed at of 235 languages, totaling in 235 000 paragraphs. WiLI is a classification dataset: Given an unknown paragraph written in making the written language simpler. This means any system one dominant language, it has to be decided which language it which recognizes language and any benchmark needs to be is. adapted over time. Hence WiLI is versioned by year. Languages do not necessarily have only one name. According to Wikipedia, the Sranan language is also known as Sranan Tongo, Sranantongo, Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole and I. INTRODUCTION Taki Taki. This makes ISO 369-3 valuable, but not all languages are represented in ISO 369-3. As ISO 369-3 uses combinations The identification of written natural language is a task which of 3 Latin letters and has 547 reserved combinations, it can appears often in web applications.