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Ladino

Ladino

The dictionary

About Ladino

  • Ladino

  • Judeo-Espanyol

  • Judeo-Spanish

  • Judezmo

  • Espanyol (our spanish)

  • Haketia (in Marokko)

Origin of Ladino

  • Romance language based on old Spanish and a lot of other languages:

  • Castillian Spanish

  • Portugueses

  • Aragonese

  • Catalan

  • Italian

  • French

  • Turkish

  • Greek

  • Bulgarian

  • Serbo-Croatic

  • Arabic

  • Hebrew

  • ...

Expulsion of Sefardic Jews

  • 1492 from Spain

  • 1496 from Portugal as well

  • Spread to a lot of places in Western Europe, North Africa and the Ottoman Empire

  • some maps

Writing system

  • Latin letters

  • Rashi script

  • Solitreo

  • See Ladinotype

Who am I and how I learned Ladino

  • Gabor Szabo
  • Programmer (test automation, DevOps)
  • Hungary => Israel
  • Learning modern Spanish for 3.5 years. (Duolingo, italki, eBooks, podcasts, youtube videos)
  • Learning Ladino for 6 months.

Goals

  • Be able to communicate with other Ladino speaker.
  • Help others in the same goal.
  • Help preserve the language and the culture.

My site about Ladino

LibreLingo

LibreTranslate

Ladino communities

Ladino academy

Existing Ladino dictionaries

The dictionary

Quick overview of the technology

The source of the dictionary

  • Source Excel file Created by Güler Orgun, Ricardo Portal i Antonio Ruiz Tinoco 2003-2009
  • Contributed to Ladinokomunita
  • Converted to YAML files automatically and then manual cleanup

YAML representation

  • Different spellings of the same word

  • Different words for the same thing (e.g. in different locations)

  • Gender

  • Singular/plural

  • Conjugation of verbs (regular, irregular) (we have 600 verbs now)

config.yaml

  • categories
  • acceptable values of certain fields (origines, grammar, gender, etc.)
  • lists of words
  • list of extra pages (in markdown format)

Processing in Python

  • Read the config file and all the YAML files.

  • Verify what that the fields have correct values (from the list of valid values)

  • Verify certain other things.

  • Generate HTML files for each word

  • Generate JSON files to be used by the front-end.

  • Generate some extra files

CI/CD

  • Pushing to any of the repositories will run some local test.
  • Trigger the action of the "generated" repo.
  • gitHub pages gets updated.

Front-end

  • JQuery
  • The main page only (and the Konfig and the Game)

Tests for the code

  • Using a few real words.
  • Using a few YAML files with specific issues.
  • Comparing the results to the previous runs.

Issues to handle

  • Conjugations of verbs

  • Multi-word expressions? "me ambezo"

  • Connection between words (e.g. plural of ..., conjugation of ...)

  • Dictionary is getting big (1 Mb)

  • Make it easy for people to suggest changes?!

Questions

  • Which words to include? (today: enlase, atadijo, link)

  • Which spelling(s) to include? (dia, diya) (djueves, djugeves, djugueves)

  • Which one(s) to recognize and which ones to recommend?

  • When is a word "part of the language"?

QA session

  • Thank you - Questions?