Inuktitut Computing dot C A

Mission: To facilitate the use of Inuktitut in its written form on computers and the web by providing useful tools and links to important resources.

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Inuktitut Morphological Analyser    Run
Bibliographic References
Dictionary: "Inuktitut - A Multi-dialectal Outline Dictionary" by Alex Spalding
Display and Input of Inuktitut Syllabic Characters - Unicode and Legacy Fonts
Inuktitut-English Parallel Corpus
Inuktitut Linguistics for Technocrats by Mick Mallon
Linguistic Data Base
NANIVARA - Inuktitut Search Engine    Run
Searching the Nunavut Hansard    Run
Transcoder    Run
Transliteration of Web Pages

Inuktitut Morphological Analyser A common problem for a student of Inuktitut is that words grow to gigantic proportions, often counting over five or six infixes, and need to be broken into units of meaning in order to be understood. This may represent a particular challenge to newcomers to the language, more so when one considers the phonological transformations as those infixes are added up.  In order to provide support for students and as a basis for more complex tools such as spelling correctors and better search tools that are taken for granted in other languages, we have developed a tool that splits these long words into morphemes (a morphological analyser).

The focus is on the dialects of Eastern Canadian Inuktitut.  We are still adding to our linguistic database, but the tool already provides an almost complete set of the "roots" and "infixes" of the language, taking full account for their various forms.

This link leads to applications that use the inuktitut morphological analyzer and the data base. There is an application that returns de decomposition of a word highlighted by the user in a web page. There is also applications that return linguistic information on the roots and the infixes contained in the data base.
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NANIVARA - Inuktitut Search Engine NANIVARA means "I've found it!" in Inuktitut. This unique search engine is capable of searching for Inuktitut words in syllabics, whatever the font and the character set that they are displayed with in the web pages and that are used for the search query. Current and commonly used search engines are not very useful for Inuktitut: they do not allow for searching for Unicode words, they consider as word delimiters codes that are used in the fonts Nunacom and Prosyl, such that in the end, the results are not what one should expect. This Inuktitut Search Engine solves those problems.  Thousands of Inuktitut pages, and for the most part, only Inuktitut pages, have been indexed.  This search engine also provides for advanced features, like boolean operators such as AND and OR, wildcards and snippets.  One may also have the words in the document that correspond to the search query highlighted in the text, making them easier to locate. 
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Transcoder With this application, one can get Inuktitut text rewritten from some original format (Unicode, Nunacom, ProSyl, roman alphabet, etc.) to another format.
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Web Page Transliteration An application that produces an exact copy of an Inuktitut web page with the Inuktitut syllabic text transliterated to the roman alphabet.
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Display and Input of Inuktitut Syllabic Characters This page gives access to Unicode and Legacy fonts for displaying Inuktitut syllabic characters, and to keyboard drivers that must be used in order to type those characters at the keyboard.
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On-line Documents

Inuktitut Linguistics for Technocrats Mick Mallon has graciously given us permission to put a copy of this document that provides a brief introduction to the phonology and morphophonology of Inuktitut. This document is written in a style that allows qallunaat seeking an understanding of how the language is put together to absorb the basics of word formation, an essential part of the Inuktitut language.
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Alex Spalding's "Inuktitut - A Multi-dialectal Outline Dictionary (with an Aivilingmiutaq base)" 
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Inuktitut-English Parallel Corpus With the gracious co-operation of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut we have assembled an aligned parallel corpus, where the Inuktitut text and its English translation is put in parallel, at or near the sentence level. We are in the process of producing an updated version of the Hansard Parallel Corpus but, for now, we will ensure that the versions produced in 2003 are available.
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