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Amharic gemination lexicon v3
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"""Amharic gemination from HornMorpho analyses.
Amharic gemination (consonant doubling) changes meaning but is not written in
Ge'ez script. HornMorpho (Michael Gasser, https://github.com/hltdi/HornMorpho)
computes it while analysing a word, and keeps it in the `seg` field if and only
if you call
hm.anal('a', word, degem=False)
With the default degem=True the marks are stripped. With degem=False, the
character `/` stands immediately before every geminated character of the
morphemic segmentation, whatever caused the doubling: the root template, the
passive/reciprocal prefix t- assimilating to the first root consonant, a
suffix such as the auxiliary -all, a lexicon entry, or reduplication.
Example segs (degem=False):
ይገኛል passive imperfect ----ይ</ገ/ኝ>---ኣ/ል--- ገ (t- prefix), ኛ (root), ል (suffix)
ክልል noun -<ክ/ልል>------ ል (lexicon)
የሚገኙ relative የ--/ም--ይ</ገ/ኝ>ኡ------ ሚ (prefix), ገ (t- prefix), ኙ (root)
The seg is morphemic, not a copy of the surface word: vowels merge across
morpheme boundaries (ቀም + ኣል gives ቀማል), palatalisation changes letters
(ን + ኢ gives ኝ), and the glottal letter of a vowel-initial suffix disappears.
This module therefore aligns the seg letters to the surface word by consonant
series and moves each `/` to the surface character it aligned with.
Do not read gemination from the `+gemN` feature instead. It only describes the
root template, so it misses every geminate created by a prefix or suffix, and
in reduplicated stems N counts template slots, not root consonants.
Usage:
python gemination.py ይገኛል ክልል መለወጥ (needs HornMorpho, see INSTALL.md)
>>> from gemination import reading_gemination
>>> reading_gemination("ይገኛል", {"seg": "----ይ</ገ/ኝ>---ኣ/ል---"})["pos"]
[1, 2]
Positions are 0-based indices into the word's Unicode characters (one Ge'ez
fidel per index).
Lexicon v3 rules (on by default; pass rules=False for the v2 behaviour). Each
is backed by more than one independent source, see the dataset card:
causative_glottal a causative prefix ስ- or ስተ- on a glottal-initial root
holds the next root consonant (ማሳደ፟ግ, አስታው፟ስ);
HornMorpho leaves it out of many segs
relative_m_light the relative prefix's ም before a subject prefix
(የሚ-, እንደሚ-, በሚ-, የምን-, የማይ-) is not held
relative_exist with relative የ-, the reading of አለ "exist" (ለ held)
is ranked above አለ "say" (ያለው, ያሉት)
"""
import difflib
import re
import sys
GEM_PRE = "/"
GEM_MARK = "፟" # ETHIOPIC COMBINING GEMINATION MARK
BOUNDARY = set("-<>")
GEEZ = re.compile(r"[ሀ-፿]")
GLOTTAL = {(0x12A0 - 0x1200) // 8, (0x12D0 - 0x1200) // 8} # አ and ዐ series
# palatalised surface letter -> base consonant it comes from
PALATAL = {"ሽ": "ስ", "ች": "ት", "ጭ": "ጥ", "ኝ": "ን", "ዥ": "ዝ", "ጅ": "ድ", "ይ": "ል"}
# letters pronounced the same in Amharic, spelled either way (ሣ/ሳ, ሐ/ሀ, ፀ/ጸ)
HOMOPHONE = {"ሥ": "ስ", "ሕ": "ህ", "ኅ": "ህ", "ፅ": "ጽ", "ኽ": "ህ"}
# labialised series (ቈ ኰ ጐ ኈ ዀ) are the base consonant plus w: ቅ + ዋ gives ቋ
LABIAL_SERIES = {0x1248: 0x1240, 0x12B0: 0x12A8, 0x1310: 0x1308, 0x1288: 0x1280, 0x12C0: 0x12B8}
SOURCES = ("root", "t-prefix", "prefix", "suffix", "lexicon", "reduplication")
def series(ch):
return (ord(ch) - 0x1200) // 8
def _key(ch):
"""Alignment key: consonant series, with labialised, homophone and palatal
spellings folded to their base and both glottal series merged."""
base = 0x1200 + series(ch) * 8
base = LABIAL_SERIES.get(base, base)
sixth = chr(base + 5)
sixth = HOMOPHONE.get(sixth, sixth)
sixth = PALATAL.get(sixth, sixth)
s = series(sixth)
return "G" if s in GLOTTAL else s
def parse_seg(seg):
"""Seg string -> list of (char, geminated, region, source) for its Ge'ez
characters. region: 'pre' before '<', 'stem' inside <...>, 'suf' after '>'.
source (only for geminated characters) is inferred from the seg alone:
prefix '/' before '<' (for example the relative yä-m- in የሚ)
suffix '/' after '>' (the auxiliary -all, plural -očč, -nna)
t-prefix '/' opens the stem ('</X'), sits on a boundary ('/-X'),
or doubles an unassimilated ተ- ('/ተ-'): the passive or
reciprocal t- merging into the next consonant
lexicon stem without internal boundaries in a noun-shaped seg: an
unanalysed dictionary entry that stores the gemination
reduplication the same consonant series occurs earlier in the same
morpheme (frequentative stems such as ገለባ/በጥ). Roots
whose second half repeats the first (ግልግል, ስብስብ) also
land here.
root any other stem geminate: the root's template
"""
stem = seg[seg.find("<") + 1:seg.find(">")] if "<" in seg and ">" in seg else ""
lexical = "<" in seg and "-" not in stem and seg[:seg.find("<")].count("-") <= 2
out, pending, opens, region, last, morph = [], False, False, "pre", "", []
for i, ch in enumerate(seg):
if ch == GEM_PRE:
pending = True
nxt = seg[i + 1:i + 3]
opens = last == "<" or nxt[:1] == "-" or nxt == "ተ-"
elif ch == "<":
region, morph = "stem", []
elif ch == ">":
region = "suf"
elif ch == "-":
if region == "stem":
morph = []
elif GEEZ.match(ch):
src = None
if pending:
if region == "pre":
src = "prefix"
elif region == "suf":
src = "suffix"
elif opens:
src = "t-prefix"
elif lexical:
src = "lexicon"
elif series(ch) in {series(c) for c in morph}:
src = "reduplication"
else:
src = "root"
out.append((ch, pending, region, src))
if region == "stem":
morph.append(ch)
pending = opens = False
if ch != "-":
last = ch
return out
def seg_to_positions(word, seg):
"""-> ([(surface index, region, source)], ok). ok is False when a geminated
seg character could not be aligned to the surface word."""
segc = parse_seg(seg)
a = [_key(c) for c, _, _, _ in segc]
b = [_key(c) for c in word]
sm = difflib.SequenceMatcher(None, a, b, autojunk=False)
m = {}
for tag, i1, i2, j1, j2 in sm.get_opcodes():
if tag == "equal" or (tag == "replace" and i2 - i1 == j2 - j1):
for k in range(i2 - i1):
m[i1 + k] = j1 + k
pos, ok = {}, True
for i, (_, gem, region, src) in enumerate(segc):
if not gem:
continue
if i in m:
pos.setdefault(m[i], (region, src))
else:
ok = False
return sorted((p, r, s) for p, (r, s) in pos.items()), ok
CAUSATIVE_GLOTTAL = re.compile(r"(ስተ?-ኣ)([ሀ-፿])")
RELATIVE_M = re.compile(r"/ም(?=-+(?:ይ|እን|ት|ኣ))")
def apply_rules(seg):
"""Apply the v3 seg rules. -> (new seg, names of the rules that fired)."""
if not seg:
return seg, []
fired = []
new = CAUSATIVE_GLOTTAL.sub(r"\1/\2", seg)
if new != seg:
fired.append("causative_glottal")
if "<" in new:
pre, rest = new.split("<", 1)
light = RELATIVE_M.sub("ም", pre)
if light != pre:
fired.append("relative_m_light")
new = light + "<" + rest
return new, fired
def relative_exist_first(word, patterns):
"""v3: with relative የ-, put the existence reading of አለ (ለ held) first.
Bare ያለ is left alone: it can also be privative 'without', which holds nothing."""
if word == "ያለ":
return patterns
for i, p in enumerate(patterns):
if any("<ኣ/ለ>" in s and s.split("<")[0].replace("-", "") == "የ" for s in p["segs"]):
if i:
p["rules"] = sorted(set(p.get("rules", [])) | {"relative_exist"})
patterns = [p] + patterns[:i] + patterns[i + 1:]
return patterns
return patterns
def native_first(word, patterns, taps):
"""Put a native speaker's tapped positions first. taps: word -> positions."""
if word not in taps:
return patterns
pos = sorted(taps[word])
for i, p in enumerate(patterns):
if p["pos"] == pos:
p["native"] = True
return [p] + patterns[:i] + patterns[i + 1:]
return [{"pos": pos, "letters": [word[k] for k in pos], "sources": ["native"] * len(pos), "freq": None,
"pos_tags": [], "ok": True, "segs": [], "rules": [], "native": True}] + patterns
def reading_gemination(word, reading, final="suffix", rules=True):
"""Geminated surface positions for one HornMorpho reading (a dict with a
'seg' from hm.anal(..., degem=False)).
final: what to do with a geminate on the last character.
"suffix" (default) drop it only if it comes from a suffix and the last
letter is sixth order, so no vowel follows. In practice this is
the auxiliary -all of ይገኛል: it is not audible before a pause
and Armbruster never marks it. Vowel-final suffixes (-allu) and
stem-final geminates (ይሰ፟ጥ፟) are kept.
"keep" keep every geminate.
"drop" drop any word-final geminate.
"""
seg = reading.get("seg") or ""
used, fired = apply_rules(seg) if rules else (seg, [])
items, ok = seg_to_positions(word, used)
last = len(word) - 1
if final == "suffix" and word:
sixth = (ord(word[last]) - 0x1200) % 8 == 5
items = [x for x in items if not (x[0] == last and x[1] == "suf" and sixth)]
elif final == "drop":
items = [x for x in items if x[0] != last]
return {"pos": [p for p, _, _ in items], "letters": [word[p] for p, _, _ in items],
"sources": [s for _, _, s in items], "ok": ok, "seg": seg, "rules": fired}
def word_gemination(word, readings, final="suffix", rules=True):
"""Distinct gemination patterns over all readings of a word, most frequent
root first (HornMorpho's 'freq'). Readings that differ only in grammar but
geminate the same positions share one pattern."""
pats = {}
for r in readings:
g = reading_gemination(word, r, final, rules)
f = r.get("freq") or 0
e = pats.get(tuple(g["pos"]))
if e is None:
e = pats[tuple(g["pos"])] = {"pos": g["pos"], "letters": g["letters"], "sources": g["sources"],
"freq": f, "pos_tags": set(), "ok": True, "segs": [], "rules": set()}
elif f > e["freq"]:
e["freq"], e["sources"] = f, g["sources"]
e["pos_tags"].add(str(r.get("pos")))
e["segs"].append(g["seg"])
e["ok"] = e["ok"] and g["ok"]
e["rules"].update(g["rules"])
out = sorted(pats.values(), key=lambda e: -e["freq"])
for e in out:
e["pos_tags"], e["rules"] = sorted(e["pos_tags"]), sorted(e["rules"])
return relative_exist_first(word, out) if rules else out
def mark(word, pos):
"""Write the gemination mark U+135F after each geminated character."""
s = set(pos)
return "".join(c + (GEM_MARK if i in s else "") for i, c in enumerate(word))
def analyze(word, final="suffix", rules=True):
"""Run HornMorpho on one word and return its gemination patterns."""
import hm
try:
rs = list(hm.anal("a", word, degem=False))
except Exception:
rs = []
return word_gemination(word, rs, final, rules)
if __name__ == "__main__":
for w in sys.argv[1:] or ["ይገኛል", "ክልል", "መለወጥ"]:
pats = analyze(w)
if not pats:
print(f"{w}\tno analysis")
for p in pats:
print(f"{w}\t{mark(w, p['pos'])}\tpositions={p['pos']}\tsources={p['sources']}\t"
f"pos={','.join(p['pos_tags'])}\troot_freq={p['freq']}\tseg={p['segs'][0]}")