language-translator

Search through the definitions for many different languages, including ancient languages.

IMPORTANT NOTES!!!

• This uses sources from Wiktionary, which:
  1. May not be entirely accurate, and
  2. May not include all possible words
• Rather than translating entire sentences, this looks up one word or phrase at a time. Funtionality is planned in the future to search entire sentences, split and tokenize them, then return the results.
• The entire dictionaries/ folder is approximately 471 MB, so if space is a concern, do not download that directory.

Usage

Simply run this to start:

python translator.py

Add a language

Pre-built

1. Download a language from https://kaikki.org/dictionary/, and put the resulting file in the raw-dictionaries/ directory. For all the pre-packaged dictionaries, I did use the "Non-inflected, non-alternative" word senses, but have now used the All senses JSON file.
2. Change the file name to end in .json. For a more aesthetically pleasing listing in the languages list, change the file name to just its language name, e.g. change kaikki.org-dictionary-Arabic-all-no-YVQKzm -> arabic.json.
3. Run python serializer.py, and select either Manual installation (for converting one dictionary at a time) or Serialize all .json files in a directory to convert every .json file in that directory.
4. You're done. Once the conversion has finished, it will automatically be listed in the translator.py program once run.

Manually

If a language is not already made on that website, such as Proto-Indo-European, you can follow these steps.

TODO

Update languages

If there is a newer Wiktionary dump over at Kaikki, then you can automatically download the update by running python download_dictionary.py.

You'll be given a prompt, and there you just enter the name of a language.

You can also add multiple languages at once, comma delimited. To update all current languages, just paste this inside:

akkadian,ancient greek,arabic,aramaic,basque,breton,classical syriac,coptic,egyptian,esperanto,finnish,french,german,gothic,hebrew,icelandic,ido,interlingua,irish,italian,japanese,latin,lithuanian,middle_english,middle french,middle irish,old church slavonic,old english,old french,old high german,old irish,old norse,old polish,persian,polish,portuguese,proto-brythonic,proto-celtic,proto-finnic,proto-germanic,proto-indo-european,proto-indo-iranian,proto-italic,proto-slavic,proto-west germanic,russian,sanskrit,scots,scottish gaelic,spanish,sumerian,tocharian b,welsh,west frisian,yiddish

Built-in languages

Proto-Languages

• Proto-Brythonic
• Proto-Celtic
• Proto-Finnic
• Proto-Germanic
• Proto-Indo-European
• Proto-Indo-Iranian
• Proto-Italic
• Proto-Slavic
• Proto-West Germanic

Modern

• Arabic
• Basque
• Breton
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Icelandic
• Irish
• Italian
• Japanese
• Lithuanian
• Persian (Farsi)
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Scots
• Scottish Gaelic
• Spanish
• Welsh
• West Frisian
• Yiddish

Revived

• Hebrew

Ancient/Dead

• Akkadian
• Ancient Greek
• Aramaic
• Classical Syriac
• Coptic
• Egyptian
• Gothic
• Latin
• Middle English
• Middle French
• Middle Irish
• Old Church Slavonic
• Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
• Old French
• Old High German
• Old Irish
• Old Norse
• Old Polish
• Sanskrit
• Sumerian
• Tocharian B
• Ugratic

IAL/Conlangs

• Esperanto
• Ido
• Interlingua

Misc. Notes

Verbs

Most Latin verbs start with "I" as in "I like". Some Latin verbs start with "to" like "to hate".

Some other languages don't have verbs in the "to VERB" format, and just have the plain verb.

Credits

Credits to https://kaikki.org/, which supplied the majority of this codebase, from the mining of Wiktionary to sorting it out. I only coded this program which sorts through that data.