myanmar-karen-word-lists

A selection of Myanmar, Sgaw Karen, and Pwo Karen word lists for line breaking and spell-checking.

This list is part of a project hosted at: github.com/kanyawtech/myanmar-karen-word-lists/.

Also, for more information and additional projects, see: kanyawtech.org.

Copyright (C) 2013 LeRoy Benjamin Sharon\ With special thanks to Robert Martin Campbell

All lists are released under the BSD license, a copy of which is bundled with this file.

Myanmar

burmese-word-list.txt - 40,000+ words

Sources include:

• The my-l10n project, hosted at https://code.google.com/p/my-l10n/
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncsoft/files/Myanmar-English%20Dictionary/

This list was created to aid in word wrapping, word segmentation, and spell checkering. It aims to be an exhaustive list of all words in the Burmese language.

Sgaw Karen

sgaw-complete-syllable-list.txt - 3435 syllables

This is simply a listing of all possible syllable level combinations that the Karen orthography allows.

sgaw-word-list.txt - 10,000+ words

This list aims to include all words in the Sgaw Karen language. For the purpose of this list, a word is defined as a string of characters such that, if it were split in two at any point, the resultant parts would have either no meaning whatsoever, or a completely unrelated meaning.

Word sources include but are not limited to:

• The Holy Bible
• A Dictionary of the Sgau Karen, American Baptist Mission Press
• Drum Karen English dictionary
• A Grammar of the Sgau Karen, Rev. David Gilmore
• Say it in Karen, Emilie Ballard

Pwo Karen

pwo-complete-syllable-list.txt - 6667 syllables

This is simply a listing of all possible syllable level combinations that the Karen orthography allows.

pwo-word-list.txt

Word sources include but are not limited to:

• The Holy Bible
• A Manual of the Pwo Karen Dialect, C. H. Duffin

This list aims to include all words in the Pwo Karen language. For the purpose of this list, a word is defined as a string of characters such that, if it were split in two at any point, the resultant parts would have either no meaning whatsoever, or a completely unrelated meaning.