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* ''Seven Tones'' soundboard: [[table of all MLT finals]] with examples | * ''Seven Tones'' soundboard: [[table of all MLT finals]] with examples | ||
== | == How to search == | ||
* {{x| | * try typing in or clicking these words (from [[Practical Taiwanese Conversation]]) | ||
** | ** {{x|goar}} | ||
** {{x|lie}} | |||
** {{x|ee}} | |||
** {{x|si}} | |||
** {{x|hør}} | |||
* | * try the following words (see [[tone sandhi]] to read about joining of syllables) | ||
** {{x|chviafmng}} | |||
** | ** {{x|tøsia}} | ||
** {{x|køefcie}} | |||
** {{x|siøfciar}} | |||
** {{x|øextaxng}} | |||
== Data == | == Data == | ||
Revision as of 11:14, 18 February 2024
MTL Toolbox (https://learntaiwanese.org/MTLtoolbox/info.html) is software and data to assist learning Modern Taiwanese Language (MTL).
Features
- Six Taiwanese dictionaries spanning from Japanese era to present day
- full-text search engine accepts written Taiwanese as well as English, and Harnji
- audio from latest government-compiled dictionary
- word unjoiner to aid learning and searching at syllable level
- Seven Tones soundboard: table of all MLT finals with examples
How to search
- try the following words (see tone sandhi to read about joining of syllables)
Data
Caches/forks of:
- HTB: Hiexntai-buun Dictionary
- DFT: Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan
- MK: Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary
- EDUTECH: Liim Keahioong (2001-2003) EDUTECH: Taiwanese-English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling. MLT, unified spellings (øe), no unjoined
- Embree, Bernard L. M. (1973). A Dictionary of Southern Min: based on current usage in Taiwan and checked against the earlier works of Carstairs Douglas, Thomas Barclay, and Ernest Tipson. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Language Institute.
Technical Notes
- FTS4 full-text searches: SQLite FTS3 and FTS4 Extensions
- Token prefix queries: use the asterisk ('*') at the end. Similar to but not same as the wildcard character in operating systems (normal wildcard search not currently supported by FTS)
- Example: Taioa*
- Specify a column-name followed by a colon (':')
- Example: thj:頭* (you should see all DFT entries starting with this Harnji)
See Also
Acknowledgements
- The MTL Toolbox uses data from the Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary, which was generously released to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.