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Linguistic Components
1. Language Support Matrix (glibc upwards)
| Language Code | Language | hunspell | hyphen | mythes | notes |
| aa | Afar | afarfriends.org hosted ALSEC report. | |||
| af | Afrikaans | hunspell-af | hyphen-af | ||
| am | Amharic | hunspell-am | |||
| an | Aragonese | www.iea.es, see Spain: Lexicography In Iberian Languages | |||
| ar | Arabic | hunspell-ar | experimental thesaurus | ||
| as | Assamese | hunspell-as | hyphen-as | xobdo is another potential source, possibly even for a thesaurus, but this isn't an option apparently at the moment. | |
| ast | Asturian | crubadan corpus building | www.academiadelallingua.com, see Spain: Lexicography In Iberian Languages. Asturian translation team | ||
| az | Azeri (Latin) | hunspell-az | |||
| be | Belarusian | hunspell-be | hyphen-be | ||
| ber | Amazigh (Tifinagh) | hunspell-ber | |||
| ber | Amazigh (Latin) | ||||
| bg | Bulgarian | hunspell-bg | hyphen-bg | mythes-bg | |
| bn | Bengali | hunspell-bn | hyphen-bn | ||
| bo | Tibetan | bo.openoffice.org. Latest language support update. | |||
| br | Breton | hunspell-br | |||
| bs | Bosnian | hunspell-bs | hyphen-bs | ||
| byn | Blin | Blin Orthography: A History and an Assessment | |||
| ca | Catalan | hunspell-ca | hyphen-ca | mythes-ca | |
| crh | Crimean Tatar | A corpus | translation team | ||
| cs | Czech | hunspell-cs | hyphen-cs | mythes-cs | |
| csb | Kashubian | hunspell-csb | |||
| cy | Welsh | hunspell-cy | hyphen-cy | ||
| da | Danish | hunspell-da | hyphen-da | mythes-da | |
| de | German | hunspell-de | hyphen-de | mythes-de | |
| dv | Dhivehi | ||||
| dz | Dzongkha | crubadan corpus building | Some requests for help/info. | ||
| el | Greek | hunspell-el | hyphen-el | mythes-el | |
| en | English | hunspell-en | hyphen-en | mythes-en | |
| es | Spanish | hunspell-es | hyphen-es | mythes-es | |
| et | Estonian | hunspell-ee | hyphen-et | ||
| eu | Basque | hunspell-eu | hyphen-eu | ||
| fa | Farsi | hunspell-fa | hyphen-fa | ||
| fi | Finnish | Finnish Community has a parallel Voikko solution. With an enchant backend, an OpenOffice.org extension, and a Firefox extension. | |||
| fil | Filipino | hunspell-tl | Filipino is effectively an official Tagalog-based language | ||
| fo | Faeroese | hunspell-fo | hyphen-fo | ||
| fr | French | hunspell-fr | hyphen-fr | mythes-fr | |
| fur | Friulian | hunspell-fur | |||
| fy | Frisian | hunspell-fy | |||
| ga | Irish | hunspell-ga | hyphen-ga | mythes-ga | |
| gd | Scots Gaelic | hunspell-gd | |||
| gez | Ge'ez | Ge'ez Frontier Foundation | |||
| gl | Galician | hunspell-gl | hyphen-gl | ||
| gu | Gujarati | hunspell-gu | hyphen-gu | ||
| gv | Manx | hunspell-gv | |||
| ha | Hausa | available but no License mentioned | |||
| he | Hebrew | hunspell-he | info on hyphenation | ||
| hi | Hindi | hunspell-hi | hyphen-hi | Hindi Wordnet is likely convertible, claims to have similar format as English Wordnet, which is the basis of mythes-en | |
| hne | Chhattisgarhi | corpus building | |||
| hr | Croatian | hunspell-hr | hyphen-hr | This hasn't been updated in a number of years, on a purely orthographical basis I wonder if dict-sr would provide a better option | |
| hsb | Upper Sorbian | hunspell-hsb | hyphen-hsb | ||
| ht | Haitian Creole | hunspell-ht | |||
| hu | Hungarian | hunspell-hu | hyphen-hu | mythes-hu | |
| hy | Armenian | hunspell-hy | |||
| id | Indonesian | hunspell-id | hyphen-id | ||
| ig | Igbo | crubadan corpus building | www.dictionary.kasahorow.com | ||
| ik | Inupiaq | Broken download link to MSWord dictionary | Iñupiaq parser project | ||
| is | Icelandic | hunspell-is | hyphen-is | ||
| it | Italian | hunspell-it | hyphen-it | mythes-it | |
| iu | Inuktitut | www.livingdictionary.com | |||
| ja | Japanese | ||||
| ka | Georgian | Crubadan is aware of 29023 words | ka.openoffice.org Some info on spellchecking the language. | ||
| kk | Kazakh | hunspell-kk | |||
| kl | Kalaallisut | Greenlandic parser project. MSWord checker. | |||
| km | Khmer | hunspell-km | |||
| kn | Kannada | hunspell-kn | hyphen-kn | ||
| ko | Korean | hunspell-ko | |||
| ks | Kashmiri | online dictionary | |||
| ku | Kurdish (Latin) | hunspell-ku | hyphen-ku | ||
| ku | Kurdish (Arabic) | some info | |||
| kw | Cornish | crubadan corpus building | |||
| ky | Kirgyz | hunspell-ky | OOo localization beginnings. Orthography news | ||
| lg | Luganda | crubadan corpus building | A general translation effort. An online dictionary | ||
| li | Limburgish | crubadan corpus building | |||
| lo | Lao | Lao OOo localization | |||
| lt | Lithuanian | hunspell-lt | hyphen-lt | ||
| lv | Latvian | hunspell-lv | hyphen-lv | mythes-lv | |
| mai | Maithili | hunspell-mai | maithiliacademy.org | ||
| mg | Malagasy | hunspell-mg | |||
| mi | Maori | hunspell-mi | hyphen-mi | mythes-mi | |
| mk | Macedonian | hunspell-mk | convertible | ||
| ml | Malayalam | hunspell-ml | hyphen-ml | ||
| mn | Mongolian | hunspell-mn | hyphen-mn | ||
| mr | Marathi | hunspell-mr | hyphen-mr | ||
| ms | Malay | hunspell-ms | no content, but a project announcement for Malaysian thesaurus etc. | ||
| mt | Maltese | hunspell-mt | |||
| nan | Min Nan | online dictionary?
Debian wiki notes | |||
| nb | Bokmaal | hunspell-nb | hyphen-nb | mythes-nb | |
| nds | Lowlands Saxon | hunspell-nds | |||
| ne | Nepali | hunspell-ne | rhbz#574047 | ||
| nl | Dutch | hunspell-nl | hyphen-nl | mythes-nl | |
| nn | Nynorsk | hunspell-nn | hyphen-nn | mythes-nn | |
| nr | Ndebele (Southern) | hunspell-nr | |||
| nso | Sotho (Northern) | hunspell-nso | |||
| oc | Occitan | hunspell-oc | |||
| om | Oromo | hunspell-om | Oromo details | ||
| or | Oriya | hunspell-or | hyphen-or | ||
| pa | Punjabi | hunspell-pa | hyphen-pa | ||
| pap | Papiamentu/Papiamento | Papiamentu work in progress | The supported glibc locale is pap_AN. Spelling rules differ between Papiamentu and Papiamento groupings. Papiamentu: Curaçao and Bonaire, current members of the Netherlands Antillies, territory code AN. Papiamento: Aruba, (former member of the Netherlands Antillies), territory code AW, crubadan Papiamento corpus building. | ||
| pl | Polish | hunspell-pl | hyphen-pl | mythes-pl | |
| ps | Pashto | possible contact | |||
| pt | Portuguese | hunspell-pt | hyphen-pt | mythes-pt | |
| ro | Romanian | hunspell-ro | hyphen-ro | mythes-ro | |
| ru | Russian | hunspell-ru | hyphen-ru | mythes-ru | |
| rw | Kinyarwanda | hunspell-rw | |||
| sa | Sanskrit | An apparent effort to create a Sanskrit hunspell dictionary | hyphen-sa | ||
| sc | Sardinian | hunspell-sc | |||
| sd | Sindhi | online dictionary | |||
| se | Sammi, Northern | hunspell-se | watch this space | ||
| shs | Secwepemctsin | hunspell-shs | Secwepecmtsín word bank work in progress. Note it's trivial to create a simple wordlist-based hunspell dict. e.g. wordlist2hunspell | ||
| si | Sinhala | hunspell-si | Another very small wordlist | ||
| sid | Sidamo | Some info | |||
| sk | Slovak | hunspell-sk | hyphen-sk | mythes-sk | |
| sl | Slovenian | hunspell-sl | hyphen-sl | mythes-sl | |
| so | Somali | hunspell-so | |||
| sq | Albanian | hunspell-sq | |||
| sr | Serbian | hunspell-sr | hyphen-sr | ||
| ss | Swati | hunspell-ss | |||
| st | Sotho (Southern) | hunspell-st | |||
| sv | Swedish | hunspell-sv | hyphen-sv | mythes-sv | |
| ta | Tamil | hunspell-ta | hyphen-ta | ||
| te | Telugu | hunspell-te | hyphen-te | ||
| tg | Tajik | An apparent effort to create a Tajik hunspell dictionary | |||
| th | Thai | hunspell-th | |||
| ti | Tigrigna | hunspell-ti | |||
| tig | Tigre | crubadan corpus building | |||
| tk | Turkmen | hunspell-tk | rhbz#574053 | ||
| tl | Tagalog | hunspell-tl | |||
| tn | Tswana | hunspell-tn | |||
| tr | Turkish | available, but like Finnish through voikko the typical solution for Turkish has been the Zemberek library, and to have an enchant backend, an Openoffice.org Extension, and a Firefox extension) | |||
| ts | Tsonga | hunspell-ts | |||
| tt | Tatar | available but difficult to see where this came from originally, and what license it is exactly, GPLv2+ (?). Perhaps it is an original work of ALT Linux and that actually is the canonical upstream ? | available but difficult to see where this came from originally, and what license it is exactly, GPLv2+ (?). Perhaps it is an original work of ALT Linux and that actually is the canonical upstream ? | ||
| ug | Uyghur | www.uyghurdictionary.org www.uighur.jp | |||
| uk | Ukrainian | hunspell-uk | hyphen-uk | mythes-uk | |
| ur | Urdu | hunspell-ur | |||
| uz | Uzbek | hunspell-uz | |||
| ve | Venda | hunspell-ve | |||
| vi | Vietnamese | hunspell-vi | |||
| wa | Walloon | hunspell-wa | |||
| wo | Wolof | www.alfanet.anafa.org make Wolof localizations of Firefox and Abiword. www.dictionary.kasahorow.com | |||
| xh | Xhosa | hunspell-xh | |||
| yi | Yiddish | available spell-checker | |||
| yo | Yoruba | Some apparent efforts older info to create a Yoruba hunspell dictionary | www.dictionary.kasahorow.com | ||
| zh | Chinese | Would these (convertable) TeX rules be universally meaningful for Chinese text | |||
| zu | Zulu | hunspell-zu | hyphen-zu |
2. Language Support Matrix (extra OOo recognized not in glibc)
| Language Code | Language | hunspell | hyphen | mythes | notes | |
| ak | Akan | hunspell-ak | www.dictionary.kasahorow.com | |||
| az | Azeri (Cyrillic) | transliteration table | ||||
| bm | Bambara | Online Dictionary | ||||
| brx | Bodo | xobdo is a potential source, but this isn't an option apparently at the moment. Another Online Dictionary | ||||
| cop | Coptic | hunspell-cop | experimental convertible TeX rules | |||
| cv | Chuvash | hunspell-cv | ||||
| dgo | Dogri | Central Institute for Indian Languages | ||||
| dsb | Lower Sorbian | hunspell-dsb | ||||
| ee | Ewe | available but no License mentioned | online dictionary | |||
| eo | Esperanto | hunspell-eo | needs more love to be convertible | |||
| fj | Fijian | hunspell-fj | ||||
| grc | Ancient Greek | hunspell-grc | hyphen-grc | |||
| gsc | Gascon | Non-Commercial BY-NC-ND license | ||||
| gug | Guarani | crubadan corpus building | ||||
| hil | Hiligaynon | hunspell-hil | ||||
| ia | Interlingua | hunspell-ia | hyphen-ia | |||
| kok | Konkani | [http://www.savemylanguage.org/ online dictionary | ||||
| la | Latin | hunspell-la | hyphen-la | |||
| lb | Luxembourgish | hunspell-lb | mythes-lb | |||
| ln | Lingala | hunspell-ln | ||||
| mos | Mossi | hunspell-mos | info. dictionary effort (hunspell has no problem with utf-8 .dic files FWIW) | |||
| mni | Manipuri | some info | ||||
| my | Burmese | online dictionary | ||||
| ny | Nyanja | hunspell-ny | ||||
| qu | Quechua Ecuador | hunspell-qu | ||||
| quh | Quechua South Bolivia | hunspell-quh | ||||
| qul | Quechua North Bolivia | current effort | ||||
| rm | Raeto-Romance/Romansh | Things are a bit messy as there's a group of R[h]aeto-Romance languages, but sil maps the ISO 639-1 rm to ISO 639-3 roh, and ethnologue documents the Swizz Offical Orthography for roh as Rumantsch Grischun, so that's the probable best-fit for this. Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun | ||||
| sat | Santali | English<->Santali dictionaries online dictionary | ||||
| sg | Sango | www.dictionary.kasahorow.com | ||||
| sjd | Sammi, Kildin | Northern Sammi | ||||
| sma | Sammi, Southern | Northern Sammi | ||||
| smj | Sammi, Lule | hunspell-smj | watch this space | Northern Sammi | ||
| smn | Sammi, Inari | Northern Sammi | ||||
| sms | Sammi, Skolt | Northern Sammi | ||||
| sw | Swahili | hunspell-sw | ||||
| tet | Tetum | hunspell-tet | ||||
| tpi | Tok Pisin | crubadan corpus building |
3. Obsolete/Useless codes (glibc)
| Language Code | Language | notes |
| iw | Hebrew | Obsoleted by he |
| no | Norwegian | Effectively obsoleted by nb |