[Foundation-l] Native Cherokee Lexicons 20060619 Posted

[Jeffrey V. Merkey]

I have received several inquiries and requests from Wikimedia community 
members for release of the Cherokee lexicons for incorporation into
the Wiktionary and several adjunct projects which support Wiktionary 
projects for the Native Cherokee Language.

Cherokee Language Lexicons have been released and posted to

ftp.wikigadugi.org/wiki/lexicon

otali-20060619.lex.bz2
giduwa-20060619.lex.bz2

The released lexicons are in text format and follow the format

<english>:Cherokee

for individual words.

These lexicons do not contain the verb parsing and decomposition rules 
for pure translation of the 14 tenses, and are simply
dictionaries of common words used by most modern speakers. Complex 
sentence construction requires the AI inference
engine which reorders english sentences into Cherokee contructs, then 
synthesizes the verb stem and pronoun modifiers
for each phrase. These lexicons are however, an ideal beginning for 
contruction of a Wiktionary for the Cherokee Language.

Jeff V. Merkey