"""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---ኣ/ል--- ገ (t- prefix), ኛ (root), ል (suffix) ክልል noun -<ክ/ልል>------ ል (lexicon) የሚገኙ relative የ--/ም--ይኡ------ 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---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 ('")] 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]}")