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TlajtoliTranslate: a free, efficient, and customizable transcoder from classical to modern Nahuatl orthography
| Title: | TlajtoliTranslate: a free, efficient, and customizable transcoder from classical to modern Nahuatl orthography |
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| Authors: | Espinoza-Campuzano, Cesar |
| Publication Status: | Preprint |
| Publisher Information: | Center for Open Science, 2021. |
| Publication Year: | 2021 |
| Subject Terms: | SocArXiv|Arts and Humanities|Latin American Languages and Societies, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics, 4. Education, bepress|Arts and Humanities|Latin American Languages and Societies, SocArXiv|Arts and Humanities, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Social and Behavioral Sciences, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Applied Linguistics, Latin American Languages and Societies, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arts and Humanities, SocArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics|Applied Linguistics, bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Linguistics, bepress|Arts and Humanities |
| Description: | Nahuatl is a language currently spoken by at least 1.6 million people in México. Traditionally, and in academic circles, the classical Nahuatl orthography has been prevalent. The classical orthography is based on the Spanish interpretation of Nahuatl phonetics and most Nahuatl texts (corpus) are written in the classical orthography. Conversely, Mexico’s Public Education Ministry (SEP) teaches Nahuatl using the practical orthography which is simpler and more intuitive than the classical one. This disassociation between both systems prevents many Nahuatl-speakers from easily accessing the Nahuatl corpus. Here I present TlajtoliTranslate, a new free and intuitive transcoder that allows the swift and easy conversion of texts from the classical to the practical Nahuatl orthography. The transcoder rules can be customized by the user to obtain the desired results. This transcoder was programmed in R and uses the Shiny package to produce a webpage interface. TlajtoliTranslate is freely available online at https://cesar-espinoza-campuzano.shinyapps.io/TlajtoliTranslate/. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| DOI: | 10.31235/osf.io/ye9zk |
| Access URL: | https://osf.io/ye9zk/download https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ye9zk |
| Rights: | CC BY |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....678ececb949127d7f73c1ffbe7a1183e |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| DOI: | 10.31235/osf.io/ye9zk |
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