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Lingala Verb Sample HunspellXML File

This toy dictionary describes a naive implementation of spell-checking for regular verbs in Lingala. You can read more about how the affixation rules for this file were produced by reading Creating Affixation Rules: an Example with Lingala Verbs.

<hunspell>

<suppress blankLines="false" comments="false" metadata="false" myBlankLines="false" myComments="false"/>
	<metadata>
<comment>
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		<languageName>Lingala Verb Example</languageName>
		<localeList>ln_CD ln_CG ln</localeList>
		<dictionaryName>Lingala Verb Example</dictionaryName>
		<version>1.0</version>
		<license>CC-BY-SA</license>
		<readme>No readme</readme>
		<description>A simple test of Hunspell rules for describing Lingala verb morphology.</description>
		<shortDescription>Lingala Verb Example</shortDescription>
		<creator>Jeremy Brown</creator>
		<contributors>
			<name>Jeremy Brown</name>
		</contributors>
		<webpage>http://www.sil.org</webpage>
		<firefoxVersion min="0" max="30"/>
		<thunderbirdVersion min="0" max="30"/>
	</metadata>
	
	<affixFile>
		<settings>
			<languageCode>ln</languageCode>
			<characterSet>UTF-8</characterSet>
			<flagType>long</flagType>
			<ignore>- '</ignore>
			<wordChars>- '</wordChars>
			<needAffix flag="NA"/> <!-- put this on words that can't stand by themselves, like bare verb roots -->
		</settings>
		
		<suggestions>
			<tryChars capitalize="true">a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w y z ' -</tryChars>
			<keyboard layout="QWERTY"/>
		
			<comment>Some common errors caused by French influence.</comment>
			<replacements>
				<replace from="ph" to="f"/>
				<replace from="gn" to="ny"/>
				<replace from="ss" to="s"/>
			</replacements>
		</suggestions>
		
		<affixes>
			<comment>Verb Prefixes for non-future, non-infinitive forms.
			We roll up the subject and reflexive prefixes in all their possible combinations.
			</comment>
			<prefix flag="SU" cross="true">
				<multiply>
					<group>
						<!-- simple subject prefixes -->
						<rule add="na" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
						<rule add="o" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
						<rule add="a" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
						<rule add="e" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
						<rule add="to" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
						<rule add="bo" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
						<rule add="ba" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
					</group>
					<group>
						<!-- null morpheme or "mi-" reflexive morpheme -->
						<rule add="" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
						<rule add="mi" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA ET"/>
					</group>
				</multiply>
			</prefix>

			<comment>Verb Prefixes for future forms.
			We roll up the subject, future, and reflexive prefixes in all their possible combinations.
			</comment>
			<prefix flag="SF" cross="true">
				<multiply>
					<group>
						<!-- subject prefixes with Future ko- -->
						<rule add="nako" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
						<rule add="oko" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
						<rule add="ako" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
						<rule add="eko" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
						<rule add="toko" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
						<rule add="boko" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
						<rule add="bako" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
					</group>
					<group>
						<!-- null morpheme or "mi-" reflexive morpheme -->
						<rule add="" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
						<rule add="mi" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
					</group>
				</multiply>
			</prefix>
			
			<comment>Verb Prefixes for infinitive forms combined with reflexive.</comment>
			<prefix flag="IF" cross="true">			
				<rule add="ko" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
				<rule add="komi" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
			</prefix>
			
			<comment>Verb Prefixes for imperative forms combined with reflexive.</comment>
			<prefix flag="IS" cross="true">
				<rule add="" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
				<rule add="bo" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
				<rule add="mi" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
				<rule add="bomi" remove="0" where="." combineFlags="NA EA"/>
			</prefix>
			
			<comment>Verb Suffixes
			Combination of Extension forms (ol, is, el, am, an)
			and Tense forms (a, i, aka, aki)
			</comment>
			<suffix flag="ET" cross="true">
				<multiply>
					<group>
						<!-- verb extension morphemes including null morpheme -->
						<rule add="" remove="0" where="."/>
						<rule add="ol" remove="0" where="."/>
						<rule add="is" remove="0" where="."/>
						<rule add="el" remove="0" where="."/>
						<rule add="am" remove="0" where="."/>
						<rule add="an" remove="0" where="."/>
					</group>
					<group>
						<rule add="a" remove="0" where="."/>
						<rule add="i" remove="0" where="."/>
						<rule add="aka" remove="0" where="."/>
						<rule add="aki" remove="0" where="."/>
					</group>
				</multiply>
			</suffix>

			
			<comment>Verbs with a final -a vowel.
			This is needed by the future (SF), imperative (IS), and infinitive (IF) forms.
			</comment>
			<suffix flag="EA" cross="true">
				<rule add="a" remove="0" where="."/>
				<rule add="ola" remove="0" where="."/>
				<rule add="isa" remove="0" where="."/>
				<rule add="ela" remove="0" where="."/>
				<rule add="ama" remove="0" where="."/>
				<rule add="ana" remove="0" where="."/>
			</suffix>
		</affixes>
	</affixFile>
	

	<dictionaryFile>
		<words flags="NA SU SF IS IF">
			zal
			ling
			lamb
			luk
			kom
			li
		</words>
	</dictionaryFile>
	
	<tests>
		<bad>zal ling lamb luk kom li</bad>
		<bad>nazal oling alamb eluk tokom boli bazal koling</bad>
		<bad>namizal omiling amilamb emiluk tomikom bomili bamizal komiling</bad>
		<bad>nakozal okoling akolamb ekoluk tokokom bokoli bakozal</bad>
		<bad>nakozalol okolingis akolambel ekolukam tokokoman</bad>
		<bad>nakozalaka nakomizalolaki</bad>
		<good>nazala olingi alambaki elukaki kokoma lia</good>
		<good>nakomizala okolinga akolambola</good>
	</tests>
</hunspell>
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