MTL Toolbox: Difference between revisions

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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.

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

input: Taiwanese word (often consists of two syllables joined together), for example:
- køefcie
the Toolbox "unjoins" words by database lookup
the results from historical works should be about the same as for:
- køea cie

for a monosyllable, exact matches are displayed by default, for example (PTC):
- goar
- lie
- ee

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 unified spellings (øe))
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 Taiwanese kana. Data in POJ. We added MLT annotations)

We also support searching other websites with conversion to POJ/TL:

SQLite: FTS4 for full-text search
Token prefix queries: use the asterisk ('*') at the end. Similar to 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* (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: ^thaau

@@ Line 47: / Line 47: @@
 ** Example: {{x|Taioa*}}
 * Specify a column-name followed by a colon (':')
-** Example: {{dft|thj:頭*}} (you should see all DFT entries starting with this Harnji)
+** 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}}