This is an Apertium language pair for translating between Afrikaans and German. What you can use this language package for:

• Translating between Afrikaans and German
• Morphological analysis of Afrikaans and German
• Part-of-speech tagging of Afrikaans and German

For information on the latter two points, see subheading "For more information" below.

You will need the following software installed:

• lttoolbox (>= 3.3.0)
• apertium (>= 3.3.0)
• vislcg3 (>= 0.9.9.10297)
• apertium-afr
• apertium-deu

If this does not make any sense, we recommend you look at: www.apertium.org.

Given the requirements being installed, you should be able to just run:

$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

You can use ./autogen.sh instead of ./configure you're compiling from source. If you installed any prerequisite language packages using a --prefix to ./configure, make sure to give the same --prefix to ./configure here.

If you are in the source directory after running make, the following commands should work:

$  echo "Skryf" | apertium -d . afr-deu
Schreiben

$  echo "Schreiben" | apertium -d . deu-afr
Skryf

After installing somewhere in $PATH, you should be able to do e.g.

$  echo "Nodig" | apertium -d . afr-deu
Brauchen

• apertium-afr-deu.afr-deu.dix - Bilingual dictionary
• apertium-afr-deu.afr-deu.t1x - Chunking rules for translating into German
• apertium-afr-deu.deu-afr.t1x - Chunking rules for translating into Afrikaans
• apertium-afr-deu.afr-deu.t2x - Interchunk rules for translating into German
• apertium-afr-deu.deu-afr.t2x - Interchunk rules for translating into Afrikaans
• apertium-afr-deu.afr-deu.t3x - Postchunk rules for translating into German
• apertium-afr-deu.deu-afr.t3x - Postchunk rules for translating into Afrikaans
• apertium-afr-deu.afr-deu.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into German
• apertium-afr-deu.deu-afr.lrx - Lexical selection rules for translating into Afrikaans
• modes.xml - Translation modes

• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Installation
• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/apertium-afr-deu
• http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Using_an_lttoolbox_dictionary

If you need help using this language pair or data, you can contact:

• Mailing list: [email protected]
• IRC: #apertium on irc.freenode.net

See also the file AUTHORS included in this distribution.

Sometimes when translating, you will notice that a particular word gets translated with a hash sign in front of it. This is because of the current lack of transfer rules, which will be fixed in an upcoming update. You did not do anything wrong; it was all me.

Additionally, if a word is (not) translated with an asterisk in front of it, it means that that word is currently not supported and will be added soon.