The Mwan language : dictionary and corpus of texts

摘要

The project of making a dictionary and a corpus of interlinearized texts of the Mwan languages started in 2004. Previously there were no dictionary of this language, and only a few text were published. The writing system used in these publications was controversial as it did not made the accurate fixation of the tonal contour of words. At present the dictionary of Mwan has 2247 entries, the dictionary is also used for automatic interlinearization of Mwan texts. The number of the glossed texts is actually 48 (38000 words). These text are ready to be converted into the on-line Corpus (with the help of the NoSketchEngine software), and be published in the Internet, therefore they will be available to the linguistic community.