We Are Developing Yoruba Dictionary, What Do You Think?

agbari_yin ti pe tan... bout time and none the sooner.. GO ON SOME AND THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU...

I thought he said they are "developing" it. Any from the thread starter's post, i don't think that a dictionary. Its just a name translator. I think yoruba 'form' names so u possibly can't have ever yoruba name in it because new ones come up daily...but it worth a try anyway.

interesting idea. i hope you guys are using a language that can handle text quite well(eg python, perl, c++).

preferably you can create a set of tokens form which all other yoruba names can be generated (as they say in mathematics, a basis for the vector space of yoruba names).(c++ uses a function strtok, you could study that and write yours)

An example,
         Fakayode = Ifa+ko+ayo+de with special rules set up that determine how words combine together (in your ssce yoruba class, they possibly called it Isunki Oro).

each of the words you need can be found by possibly getting as many yoruba names as you can get and then convince a yoruba speaker to identify the common parts of the names.

As many as they may seem, I believe there is a finite number of names though others do come up daily but your system if properly developed should be able to perform nine times out of ten and in the special circumstance that it does not recognise the meaning, there should be a way for it to signify the error.



I Hope i have helped you.

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