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'''MTL Toolbox''' | '''MTL Toolbox''' (https://learntaiwanese.org/MTLtoolbox/about.html) is software and data to help work with written Taiwanese using the [[MTL]] writing system and other romanizations for Taiwanese. | ||
== Features == | |||
* six Taiwanese dictionaries spanning from [[Taioaan Jidpurn-sitai|Japanese era]] to present day | |||
* full-text search engine accepts written Taiwanese as well as English, and ''[[Harnji]]'' | |||
* audio from government-compiled dictionary: [[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan|DFT]] | |||
* word unjoiner to aid learning and searching at syllable level | |||
* ''Seven Tones'' soundboard: [[table of all MLT finals]] with examples | |||
== How to search == | |||
=== Typical usage === | |||
* input: Taiwanese word (often consists of two syllables [[tone sandhi|joined together]]), for example: | |||
* | ** {{x|køefcie}} | ||
* the Toolbox "unjoins" words by database lookup | |||
* the results from historical works should be about the same as for: | |||
* | ** {{x|køea cie}} | ||
* | |||
* more examples: | |||
** {{x|chviafmng}} | |||
** {{x|tøsia}} | |||
** {{x|Taioaan}} | |||
[ | === Monosyllable === | ||
* for a [[monosyllable]], exact matches are displayed by default, for example ([[Practical Taiwanese Conversation|PTC]]): | |||
** {{x|goar}} | |||
** {{x|lie}} | |||
** {{x|ee}} | |||
* to see more entries with this syllable, click "Khahzøe" | |||
* if the syllable is a DFT monosyllable, a navigation bar displays adjacent DFT monosyllables in alphabetical order | |||
== Data == | |||
Local copies of: | |||
* HTB: ''[[Hiexntai-buun Dictionary]]'' | |||
* DFT: ''[[Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]]'' (in [[TL]]. We added MTL annotations and annotated over 5800 definitions in English for monosyllables) | |||
* MK: ''[[Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary]]'' (in [[POJ]]. We added MTL annotations) | |||
* EDUTECH: [[Liim Keahioong]] (2001-2003) ''EDUTECH: Taiwanese-English Dictionary Searched with Concise Atonal Spelling'' (in [[MLT]] with [[Talk:Øe|unified spellings]] (øe)) | |||
* [[Bernard L.M. Embree|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. (in POJ. We added MLT annotations) | |||
* Lim08: ''[[Tai-Nichi Daijiten]]'' translated into Taiwanese. (original 1931 & 1932, in [[Taioaan-guo kana|Taiwanese kana]]. Data in POJ. We added MLT annotations) | |||
We also support searching other websites with conversion to POJ/TL: | |||
* Lim (2019): ''[[Tai-Nichi Daijiten]]'' | |||
* ''[[Taibuun/Hoabuun Svoarterng Sutiern]]'' | |||
== Technical notes == | |||
* [[SQLite]]: [https://sqlite.org/fts3.html FTS4] for full-text search | |||
* Token prefix queries: use the asterisk ('*') at the end. Similar to {{w|wildcard character}} in [[zokgiap hexthorng|operating systems]] (normal wildcard search not currently supported by FTS) | |||
** Example: {{x|Taioa*}}, {{x|臺*}} | |||
* Specify a column-name followed by a colon (':') | |||
** Example: {{x|thj:頭*}} (returns entries where Taiwanese written with Harnji begins with character for [[thaau]]) | |||
* Add carat ^ before token to require token to be very first token in its column | |||
** Example: {{x|^thaau}} | |||
== See also == | |||
* [[Taiwanese-English dictionaries]] | |||
== Acknowledgements == | |||
* The MTL Toolbox uses data from the ''[[Maryknoll Taiwanese-English Dictionary]]'', which was generously released to the public under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License]. | |||
[[Category:Peqoexji]] | |||
[[Category:Modern Literal Taiwanese]] | |||
[[Category:Modern Taiwanese Language]] | |||