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https://github.com/benjamin-davies/plover-dictionaries
Some of my custom Plover dictionaries
https://github.com/benjamin-davies/plover-dictionaries
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Some of my custom Plover dictionaries
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/benjamin-davies/plover-dictionaries
- Owner: Benjamin-Davies
- Created: 2023-10-18T05:39:45.000Z (12 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-02-09T23:58:59.000Z (8 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-09-27T03:42:30.792Z (about 12 hours ago)
- Topics: english, maori, plover, plover-dictionary
- Language: Python
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- Size: 36.1 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Māori Words
I live in New Zealand/Aotearoa, so I use a lot of Māori both for placenames and in my vernacular.
## Suffix
While it is possible to tweak this system to avoid conflicts with the default Plover vocabulary, it would still interfere with phrasing. Therefore, I have decided to take inspiration from Emily's Modifiers and suffix most strokes with "-GSD" (picture the tail of a waka).
## Structure
I have structured Māori words with one stroke per sylable/[mora](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_phonology#Phonotactics) with the exception of long vowels and diphthongs. Māori sylables never have a final consonant, so these words are very left-hand heavy.
Consonants are always as written, so "wh" is stroked "WH-". "ng" is stroked "TKPW-" which is the chord for "g", as "g" never occurs on it own in a word.
Vowels are also as written, with the same chord for both long and short vowels.
| Vowel | Chord |
|-------|-------|
| a | A |
| e | E |
| i | EU |
| o | O |
| u | U |
| ae | AE |
| ai | AEU |
| ao | AO |
| au | AU |
| ou | OU |
Any other combinations of vowels are split across separate moras. I have added briefs for the multisylabic affixes "whaka-" and "-tanga", but otherwise have made no effort to condense the length of words or phrases.
Vowels with macrons can be fingerspelt using the suffix. All other letters use their regular fingerspelling.
## Vocabulary
The word lists I used are:
- https://www.maorilanguage.net/maori-words-phrases/50-maori-words-every-new-zealander-know/
- https://www.maorilanguage.net/maori-words-phrases/colours-nga-tae/
- https://www.maorilanguage.net/maori-words-phrases/greetings-mihi/
- https://www.maorilanguage.net/maori-words-phrases/maori-words-used-new-zealand-english/
- https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/maori-language-week/100-maori-words
- https://www.maorilanguage.net/maori-words-phrases/place-names-new-zealand-ingoa-wahi-o-aotearoa/
I have also included some other words that I hear used frequently. I have omitted single letter words and particles, as they would be identical to the fingerspelling. I have also omitted some words that also appear in the Plover default dictionaries.
Place names are in a separate dictionary. I have also included more place names for Tauranga and Christchurch, as these are the places I have lived.