Re: [native-lang] Status update season!

Hi,

On 12/20/06, Meelad Zakaria <[email protected]> wrote:
> In Persian it's not possible to use affixes, cos there are so many
> exceptions and ambigious cases that we've decided that we should make an
> auto-generated list and then manually check each entry and enter them in
> a flat list. This goes for aspell, I've not done much for oo yet.
> Maybe the case is different with Kurdish?

I have only very basic knowledge of Persian, but there are verb
endings, aren't there? Like "mixorem, mixorid, mixor..." for "i eat,
you eat, he eats" and so on. These are affixes. In Myspell you define
some sets of these and apply them to the verbs. That's how I do it in
Kurdish, and that makes Myspell (an aspell and ispell) very effective.
I think this will be very similar in Persian, at least for the verbs.

For nouns there are -hã and -ãn for the plurals, these are also
affixes. If you define sets of rules for them, you will make the
wordlist shorter and the program more effective.

Erdal