Manipuri morphological generator

Abstract

The present paper deals with the design and development of a morphological generator for Manipuri language, a Tibeto-Burman language. It is highly agglutinating language. The input of the morphological generator would be the root word which then inflects the word to the morphology of the language and gives the target forms of the word. The Morphological structure of Manipuri Noun is quite complex since it caters to gender, diminutive, numbers, case and number markings etc. Manipuri nouns are broadly classified into 27 categories according to ending characters and phonological factors. Also Manipuri verbs are classified into 15 main categories. The coverage of the system is directly related to the size of the root list.