Panlexia

Contents

Panlexia is a collection of interlinked word lists. Each language has its own word list file. The file names consist of a three-letter language code from the ISO 639-3 standard and .tsv suffix. For example, the name of the word list file for English is eng.tsv and the one for Mandarin Chinese is cmn.tsv.

There can be also other language specific files for storing additional information, for example phonetic transcription or grammatical information. The name of a transcription file consists of the three-letter language code, a dash (-), the name of the transcription system, and .tsv suffix. For example, the name of IPA pronunciation file for English is eng-IPA.tsv and the name of Pinyin Romanized file for Mandarin Chinese is cmn-pinyin.tsv.

If for some reason there is two word lists for one language, the second and greater ones are suffixed with an underscrore and a number. For example, eng_2.tsv and eng_2-IPA.tsv.

Each word list file consists of lines that include an entry identifier, a tab (i.e. character tabulation) and a word or words in the given language. The entry identifier is a unique code that consists of the following parts:

• the semantic field or theme in English
• a colon (:)
• the term in a standardized (scientific, technological or other) terminology or in plain English
• a period (.)
• a word class identifier, such as N for nouns, ADJ for adjectives and V for verbs

The word is the translation of the concept in the language in question. The entry identifiers link translations in different languages together.

Animal:Felis catus.N cat
Animal:Canis lupus.N  wolf
Animal:Canis lupus familiaris.N dog
Body:head.N head
Body:face.N	face
Body:face.A facial
Food:Malus domestica.N  apple
Plant:Malus domestica.N apple tree

The repository includes also some Python and shell scripts for generating dictionaries.

License

The contents are free to be read, shared, printed, adapted and so on by Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), with the condition that you give appropriate credit and indicate if changes were made. See examples of proper attribution below.

Hypertext attribution:
"[Panlexia[(https://github.com/barumau/panlexia)" by Risto Kupsala et al. is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Text attribution:
"Panlexia" (https://github.com/barumau/panlexia) by Risto Kupsala et al. is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Details of the license are in LICENSE.md.

Acknowledgments

The Panlexia project re-uses material from the following sources:

• Concepticon, which is edited by List, Johann Mattis & Tjuka, Annika & van Zantwijk, Mathilda & Blum, Frederic & Ugarte, Carlos Barrientos & Rzymski, Christoph & Greenhill, Simon & Forkel, Robert and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
• NorthEuraLex, which is edited by Johannes Dellert & Gerhard Jäger and which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
• Universal Language Dictionary (ULD) by Rick Harrison et al.
• The World Loanword Database (WOLD), which is edited by Martin Haspelmath & Uri Tadmor and which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany License

Contact

Panlexia is maintained by Risto Kupsala. You may contact him by sending email to risto@pandunia.info.

Let's work together!

Panlexia is a collaborative project. You can help in many ways!

• Improve the documentation.
  • Edit text so that it's easier to understand. The documentation is aimed for common people with a basic education. If you don't understand something, the problem is probably in the text, not in you!
  • Correct mistakes when you spot them.
• Translate the documentation to new languages.
• Add more words and translations!

The documentation is in plain-text in Markdown formatting. Learn about Markdown here.

You may contribute via GitHub. Create an account for yourself and follow instructions about cloning a repository and basic use. If you contribute changes yourself, you will be added to our list of contributors automatically.

Our contributors are listed here

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