Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages

Mooney, Damien; Jones, Mari C.

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“…The relevant issue is that, in the medieval period, Galician and Portuguese were written with similar spellings, while, in the second half of the 20th century, they used different ones. This is in accordance with the claim made by Jones and Mooney (2017): "the use of Spanish orthographic conventions may help to distinguish Galician from Portuguese, to which it is linguistically more similar". • Galician comes closer to both Spanish and Portuguese since the 20th century.…”

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A Methodology to Measure the Diachronic Language Distance between Three Languages Based on Perplexity

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Gamallo

Alegria³

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

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The aim of this paper is to apply a corpus-based methodology, based on the measure of perplexity, to automatically calculate the cross-lingual language distance between historical periods of three languages. The three historical corpora have been constructed and collected with the closest spelling to the original on a balanced basis of fiction and nonfiction. This methodology has been applied to measure the historical distance of Galician with respect to Portuguese and Spanish, from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, both in original spelling and automatically transcribed spelling. The quantitative results are contrasted with hypotheses extracted from experts in historical linguistics. Results show that Galician and Portuguese are varieties of the same language in the Middle Ages and that Galician converges and diverges with Portuguese and Spanish since the last period of the 19th century. In this process, orthography plays a relevant role. It should be pointed out that the method is unsupervised and can be applied to other languages.

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Section: Final Discussionsupporting

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A Methodology to Measure the Diachronic Language Distance between Three Languages Based on Perplexity

Campos

Gamallo

Alegria³

et al. 2020

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

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“…Besides the American researchers, British scholars are actively involved in the process of designing the writing system for unwritten languages. In particular, at the University of Cambridge, there is a group of scholars engaged in documentation of endangered languages and cultures, Mary Jones, the editor of "Creating a writing system for endangered languages" (Jones, Mooney, 2017) being the head of the group.…”

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The World Practice of Development of Writing for Non-Literate Cultures

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2018

J. Sib. Fed. Univ., Humanit. soc. sci.

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The article focuses on foreign scientific practices in the creation of orthographies for unwritten languages in order to find a high-quality and effective algorithm for the Enets writing approval and development. The review of modern foreign researches is dominated by the analysis of the publications issued by the scholars of SIL international, the most experienced and authoritative organization in this field. The first part of the article gives a description of the algorithm for the development of written languages for the indigenous peoples, the description being recognized as the most promising at the beginning of the 21 st century. It highlights the stages, principles and scientific attitudes, lists linguistic and non-linguistic challenges that arise in the course of the development of writing. The second part analyses specific cases of a) the SIL scholars' successful creation of writing for the Mexican languages, in particular, for the Mixtec language; b) unsuccessful attempts to create the writing for the people of Darma living in Nepal on the border with India. It is concluded that modern techniques in the field of orthographies can be used to create a written Enets language. Keywords: orthography for unwritten languages, unwritten languages, a case study of the development of writing in the 21 st century, the Enets language. The reported study was funded by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Fund of Science within the "Development of scientific and methodological support for a unique cultural heritage preservation for the Ket and Enets ethno-cultural groups of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East living on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk Krai" research project. Research area: culturology.

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Pia Lane, James Costa and Haley De Korne (eds.): Standardizing Minority Languages: Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

Murchadha

2018

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Creating Orthographies for Endangered Languages

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A Methodology to Measure the Diachronic Language Distance between Three Languages Based on Perplexity

A Methodology to Measure the Diachronic Language Distance between Three Languages Based on Perplexity

The World Practice of Development of Writing for Non-Literate Cultures

Pia Lane, James Costa and Haley De Korne (eds.): Standardizing Minority Languages: Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

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