Dataset Viewer
Auto-converted to Parquet Duplicate
word
stringlengths
1
55
frequency
int64
1
8.76k
analyzed
bool
2 classes
n_readings
int64
0
30
n_patterns
int64
0
6
geminates
listlengths
0
5
marked
stringlengths
1
55
ambiguous
bool
2 classes
alignment_failed
bool
2 classes
no_geminate_any_reading
bool
2 classes
native_checked
bool
2 classes
readings
listlengths
0
6
እና
8,756
true
1
1
[]
እና
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "እና", "root_frequency": 2683, "pos_tags": [ "CCONJ" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "" ] } ]
ላይ
7,835
true
5
1
[]
ላይ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ላይ", "root_frequency": 10813, "pos_tags": [ "ADJ", "ADP", "N", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "", "-<ላይ>------", "ል----እ<ኣይ>------" ...
መሆኑን
5,794
true
2
1
[]
መሆኑን
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "መሆኑን", "root_frequency": 20636, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<መ-ሆን>--ኡ-ን---" ] } ]
ነው
4,096
true
1
1
[]
ነው
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ነው", "root_frequency": 50000, "pos_tags": [ "AUX" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ነው>--" ] } ]
ብለዋል።
3,782
false
0
0
[]
ብለዋል።
false
false
false
false
[]
አገልግሎት
3,763
true
2
1
[]
አገልግሎት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "አገልግሎት", "root_frequency": 544, "pos_tags": [ "N", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<አገልግሎት>------", "----<ኣ-ገልግል>ኦ-ት-----" ] } ]
ከተማ
3,162
true
3
2
[]
ከተማ
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ከተማ", "root_frequency": 2193, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ከተማ>------" ] }, { "positions": [ 1 ], "let...
ተናግረዋል።
3,042
false
0
0
[]
ተናግረዋል።
false
false
false
false
[]
ነው።
2,954
false
0
0
[]
ነው።
false
false
false
false
[]
ወደ
2,831
true
1
1
[]
ወደ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ወደ", "root_frequency": 4999, "pos_tags": [ "ADP" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "" ] } ]
ጋር
2,792
true
2
1
[]
ጋር
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ጋር", "root_frequency": 4356, "pos_tags": [ "ADP", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "", "----<ጋር>------" ] } ]
ገልጸዋል።
2,722
false
0
0
[]
ገልጸዋል።
false
false
false
false
[]
በ
2,521
false
0
0
[]
በ
false
false
false
false
[]
ቤት
2,400
true
1
1
[]
ቤት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ቤት", "root_frequency": 2109, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ቤት>------" ] } ]
ሺህ
2,359
true
1
1
[]
ሺህ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሺህ", "root_frequency": 363, "pos_tags": [ "NUM" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሺ>------" ] } ]
ኢትዮጵያ
2,300
true
1
1
[]
ኢትዮጵያ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ኢትዮጵያ", "root_frequency": 3921, "pos_tags": [ "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ኢትዮጵያ>------" ] } ]
ስራ
2,239
true
2
1
[]
ስራ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ስራ", "root_frequency": 2107, "pos_tags": [ "N", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ስራ>------", "----<ስራ>------" ] } ]
ውስጥ
2,115
true
2
1
[]
ውስጥ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ውስጥ", "root_frequency": 4750, "pos_tags": [ "ADP", "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "", "-<ውስጥ>------" ] } ]
ትምህርት
2,033
true
1
1
[]
ትምህርት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ትምህርት", "root_frequency": 1372, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ትምህርት>------" ] } ]
አቶ
2,030
true
3
1
[]
አቶ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "አቶ", "root_frequency": 351, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "----<ኣጥት>ኦ------", "-<አቶ>------" ] } ]
ጊዜ
2,015
true
1
1
[]
ጊዜ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ጊዜ", "root_frequency": 5001, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ጊዜ>------" ] } ]
ከ
1,935
false
0
0
[]
ከ
false
false
false
false
[]
ክልል
1,922
true
1
1
[ 1 ]
ክል፟ል
false
false
false
true
[ { "positions": [ 1 ], "letters": [ "ል" ], "sources": [ "lexicon" ], "marked": "ክል፟ል", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": true, "segs": [ "-<ክ/ልል>------" ] } ]
የትምህርት
1,908
true
1
1
[]
የትምህርት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "የትምህርት", "root_frequency": 1372, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "የ-<ትምህርት>------" ] } ]
በላይ
1,832
true
5
1
[]
በላይ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "በላይ", "root_frequency": 10813, "pos_tags": [ "ADJ", "ADP", "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "በ-<ላይ>------", "", "-<በላይ>------...
ብር
1,816
true
3
2
[]
ብር
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ብር", "root_frequency": 1320, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PART" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "", "-<ብር>------" ] }, { "positions": [ 1 ], ...
ደረጃ
1,814
true
3
2
[]
ደረጃ
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ደረጃ", "root_frequency": 2057, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ደረጃ>------" ] }, { "positions": [ 2 ], "let...
አንድ
1,797
true
2
1
[]
አንድ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "አንድ", "root_frequency": 2798, "pos_tags": [ "NUM", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<አንድ>------", "----እ<ኣ-ንድ>------" ] } ]
የኢትዮጵያ
1,752
true
1
1
[]
የኢትዮጵያ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "የኢትዮጵያ", "root_frequency": 3921, "pos_tags": [ "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "የ-<ኢትዮጵያ>------" ] } ]
ሚኒስትር
1,743
true
1
1
[]
ሚኒስትር
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሚኒስትር", "root_frequency": 433, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሚኒስትር>------" ] } ]
መቶ
1,734
true
3
1
[]
መቶ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "መቶ", "root_frequency": 1280, "pos_tags": [ "NUM", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "----<መጥት>ኦ------", "-<መቶ>------", "----<መትት>ኦ------" ] }...
ኛ
1,616
false
0
0
[]
ኛ
false
false
false
false
[]
ር
1,609
false
0
0
[]
ር
false
false
false
false
[]
ቀን
1,599
true
1
1
[]
ቀን
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ቀን", "root_frequency": 1462, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ቀን>------" ] } ]
ከፍተኛ
1,588
true
1
1
[ 1, 3 ]
ከፍ፟ተኛ፟
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 1, 3 ], "letters": [ "ፍ", "ኛ" ], "sources": [ "lexicon", "lexicon" ], "marked": "ከፍ፟ተኛ፟", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "ADJ" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ ...
።
1,579
true
1
1
[]
።
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "።", "root_frequency": 0, "pos_tags": [ "PUNCT" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "" ] } ]
ነጥብ
1,567
true
1
1
[]
ነጥብ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ነጥብ", "root_frequency": 555, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ነጥብ>------" ] } ]
ዶ
1,567
false
0
0
[]
ዶ
false
false
false
false
[]
አቀፍ
1,544
true
1
1
[ 2 ]
አቀፍ፟
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 2 ], "letters": [ "ፍ" ], "sources": [ "root" ], "marked": "አቀፍ፟", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "----እ<ኣ-ቀ/ፍ>------" ] } ]
የጤና
1,523
true
2
1
[]
የጤና
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "የጤና", "root_frequency": 794, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "የ-<ጤና>------" ] } ]
ዋና
1,517
true
3
2
[]
ዋና
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ዋና", "root_frequency": 1038, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ዋና>------" ] }, { "positions": [ 1 ], "lette...
እንዲሁም
1,450
true
3
1
[]
እንዲሁም
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "እንዲሁም", "root_frequency": 14266, "pos_tags": [ "ADV", "DET" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "እንደ-<ይህ>--ኡ---/ም-", "" ] } ]
ልማት
1,430
true
4
1
[]
ልማት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ልማት", "root_frequency": 755, "pos_tags": [ "N", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ልማት>------", "----ል<እማ>-ኣት-----", "----<ልማ>-ኣት-----" ] }...
ዓመት
1,346
true
1
1
[]
ዓመት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ዓመት", "root_frequency": 2383, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<አመት>------" ] } ]
ደግሞ
1,333
true
2
1
[]
ደግሞ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ደግሞ", "root_frequency": 3119, "pos_tags": [ "ADV", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "", "----<ደግም>ኦ------" ] } ]
ሁለት
1,322
true
1
1
[ 2 ]
ሁለት፟
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 2 ], "letters": [ "ት" ], "sources": [ "lexicon" ], "marked": "ሁለት፟", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "NUM" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሁለ/ት>------" ] } ]
መካከል
1,321
true
2
2
[]
መካከል
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "መካከል", "root_frequency": 1531, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<መካከል>------" ] }, { "positions": [ 2 ], "letters": [ ...
ድጋፍ
1,306
true
2
1
[]
ድጋፍ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ድጋፍ", "root_frequency": 883, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ድጋፍ>------" ] } ]
የ
1,276
false
0
0
[]
የ
false
false
false
false
[]
አበባ
1,268
true
3
2
[]
አበባ
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "አበባ", "root_frequency": 115, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<አበባ>------" ] }, { "positions": [ 1 ], "lett...
ሰዎች
1,259
true
1
1
[]
ሰዎች
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሰዎች", "root_frequency": 5279, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሰው>ኦ/ች------" ] } ]
ተቋማት
1,251
true
1
1
[]
ተቋማት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ተቋማት", "root_frequency": 874, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ተቋም>------" ] } ]
የክልሉ
1,239
true
2
1
[ 2 ]
የክል፟ሉ
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 2 ], "letters": [ "ል" ], "sources": [ "lexicon" ], "marked": "የክል፟ሉ", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "የ-<ክ/ልል>--ኡ----" ] } ]
አስተዳደር
1,203
true
1
1
[]
አስተዳደር
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "አስተዳደር", "root_frequency": 204, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ኣስተ-ዳደር>------" ] } ]
ዛሬ
1,188
true
2
1
[]
ዛሬ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ዛሬ", "root_frequency": 655, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ዛሬ>------", "-<ዛር>--ኤ----" ] } ]
ስራዎች
1,182
true
1
1
[]
ስራዎች
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ስራዎች", "root_frequency": 2107, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ስራ>ኦ/ች------" ] } ]
ፈቃድ
1,170
true
1
1
[]
ፈቃድ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ፈቃድ", "root_frequency": 331, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ፈቃድ>------" ] } ]
በክልሉ
1,164
true
2
1
[ 2 ]
በክል፟ሉ
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 2 ], "letters": [ "ል" ], "sources": [ "lexicon" ], "marked": "በክል፟ሉ", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "በ-<ክ/ልል>--ኡ----" ] } ]
የአፍሪካ
1,158
true
1
1
[]
የአፍሪካ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "የአፍሪካ", "root_frequency": 1363, "pos_tags": [ "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "የ-<አፍሪካ>------" ] } ]
ዘርፍ
1,131
true
2
1
[]
ዘርፍ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ዘርፍ", "root_frequency": 777, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ዘርፍ>------" ] } ]
ያለው
1,121
true
7
2
[ 1 ]
ያለ፟ው
true
false
false
true
[ { "positions": [ 1 ], "letters": [ "ለ" ], "sources": [ "root" ], "marked": "ያለ፟ው", "root_frequency": 1849, "pos_tags": [ "AUX", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [ "relative_exist" ], "native": true, "segs": [ ...
አካላት
1,115
true
5
2
[]
አካላት
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "አካላት", "root_frequency": 659, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<አካል>------", "-<አካላት>------" ] }, { "positions": [ ...
ቢሮ
1,099
true
1
1
[]
ቢሮ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ቢሮ", "root_frequency": 445, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ቢሮ>------" ] } ]
ምክትል
1,098
true
1
1
[ 2 ]
ምክት፟ል
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 2 ], "letters": [ "ት" ], "sources": [ "lexicon" ], "marked": "ምክት፟ል", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ምክ/ትል>------" ] } ]
ጤና
1,093
true
2
1
[]
ጤና
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ጤና", "root_frequency": 794, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ጤና>------" ] } ]
ሌሎች
1,083
true
1
1
[]
ሌሎች
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሌሎች", "root_frequency": 4419, "pos_tags": [ "ADJ" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሌላ>------" ] } ]
ወቅት
1,067
true
1
1
[]
ወቅት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ወቅት", "root_frequency": 1566, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ወቅት>------" ] } ]
የተለያዩ
1,049
true
1
1
[ 4 ]
የተለያዩ፟
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 4 ], "letters": [ "ዩ" ], "sources": [ "reduplication" ], "marked": "የተለያዩ፟", "root_frequency": 1904, "pos_tags": [ "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "የ----<ተ-ለያ/የ>ኡ------" ] ...
ጠቅላይ
1,049
true
2
1
[]
ጠቅላይ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ጠቅላይ", "root_frequency": 27, "pos_tags": [ "ADJ", "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ጠቅላል-ኢ>------" ] } ]
ለማድረግ
1,046
true
1
1
[]
ለማድረግ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ለማድረግ", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "ለ-<ማ-ድረግ>------" ] } ]
በዚህም
1,036
true
2
1
[]
በዚህም
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "በዚህም", "root_frequency": 14266, "pos_tags": [ "DET" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "በ-<ይህ>-----/ም-" ] } ]
ሶስት
1,035
true
1
1
[]
ሶስት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሶስት", "root_frequency": 186, "pos_tags": [ "NUM" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሶስት>------" ] } ]
ትኩረት
1,034
true
2
1
[]
ትኩረት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ትኩረት", "root_frequency": 177, "pos_tags": [ "N", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ትኩረት>------", "----ት<ኩረት>------" ] } ]
በኢትዮጵያ
1,026
true
1
1
[]
በኢትዮጵያ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "በኢትዮጵያ", "root_frequency": 3921, "pos_tags": [ "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "በ-<ኢትዮጵያ>------" ] } ]
መርሃ
1,018
true
1
1
[]
መርሃ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "መርሃ", "root_frequency": 3, "pos_tags": [ "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<መርሀ>------" ] } ]
ተግባራት
1,017
true
1
1
[]
ተግባራት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ተግባራት", "root_frequency": 901, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ተግባር>------" ] } ]
ውጤት
1,010
true
1
1
[ 1 ]
ውጤ፟ት
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 1 ], "letters": [ "ጤ" ], "sources": [ "lexicon" ], "marked": "ውጤ፟ት", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ው/ጤት>------" ] } ]
በዓል
1,009
true
1
1
[]
በዓል
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "በዓል", "root_frequency": 371, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<በአል>------" ] } ]
ሥራ
1,006
true
2
1
[]
ሥራ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሥራ", "root_frequency": 2107, "pos_tags": [ "N", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ስራ>------", "----<ስራ>------" ] } ]
አራት
998
true
5
3
[ 1 ]
አራ፟ት
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 1 ], "letters": [ "ራ" ], "sources": [ "root" ], "marked": "አራ፟ት", "root_frequency": 30, "pos_tags": [ "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "----<ኣ/ራ>አ-ኣት-----", "----<ኣ/ር>ኣ-ኣት...
መንግስት
997
true
2
1
[]
መንግስት
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "መንግስት", "root_frequency": 3748, "pos_tags": [ "N", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<መንግስት>------" ] } ]
ተማሪዎች
997
true
2
1
[]
ተማሪዎች
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ተማሪዎች", "root_frequency": 13, "pos_tags": [ "ADJ", "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ተ-ማር-ኢ>ኦ/ች------" ] } ]
ግብር
990
true
1
1
[]
ግብር
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ግብር", "root_frequency": 204, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ግብር>------" ] } ]
መሆኑንም
977
true
4
1
[]
መሆኑንም
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "መሆኑንም", "root_frequency": 20636, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<መ-ሆን>--ኡ-ን--/ም-" ] } ]
ናቸው።
972
false
0
0
[]
ናቸው።
false
false
false
false
[]
አቅም
971
true
4
1
[]
አቅም
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "አቅም", "root_frequency": 1643, "pos_tags": [ "N", "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "----እ<ኣቅ>-----/ም-", "-<አቅም>------" ] } ]
ግንባታ
965
true
1
1
[]
ግንባታ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ግንባታ", "root_frequency": 966, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ግንባታ>------" ] } ]
እየተሰራ
962
true
1
1
[ 4 ]
እየተሰራ፟
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 4 ], "letters": [ "ራ" ], "sources": [ "root" ], "marked": "እየተሰራ፟", "root_frequency": 510, "pos_tags": [ "V" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "እየ----<ተ-ሰ/ራ>አ------" ] } ]
በማድረግ
949
true
1
1
[]
በማድረግ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "በማድረግ", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "በ-<ማ-ድረግ>------" ] } ]
ለ
946
false
0
0
[]
ለ
false
false
false
false
[]
አንስተዋል።
930
false
0
0
[]
አንስተዋል።
false
false
false
false
[]
ሚሊዮን
920
true
4
2
[]
ሚሊዮን
true
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሚሊዮን", "root_frequency": 885, "pos_tags": [ "ADJ", "NUM", "PROPN" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሚሊዮን>------" ] }, { "positions": [ 1...
አምስት
920
true
1
1
[ 1 ]
አም፟ስት
false
false
false
false
[ { "positions": [ 1 ], "letters": [ "ም" ], "sources": [ "lexicon" ], "marked": "አም፟ስት", "root_frequency": 1, "pos_tags": [ "NUM" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<አ/ምስት>------" ] } ]
ሀገር
910
true
1
1
[]
ሀገር
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሀገር", "root_frequency": 1216, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሀገር>------" ] } ]
ቤቶች
897
true
1
1
[]
ቤቶች
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ቤቶች", "root_frequency": 2109, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ቤት>ኦ/ች------" ] } ]
እስከ
886
true
2
1
[]
እስከ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "እስከ", "root_frequency": 1352, "pos_tags": [ "ADP", "SCONJ" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "" ] } ]
ዩኒቨርሲቲ
881
true
1
1
[]
ዩኒቨርሲቲ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ዩኒቨርሲቲ", "root_frequency": 661, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ዩኒቨርሲቲ>------" ] } ]
ዞን
878
true
1
1
[]
ዞን
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ዞን", "root_frequency": 495, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ዞን>------" ] } ]
ሚና
877
true
1
1
[]
ሚና
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ሚና", "root_frequency": 361, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሚና>------" ] } ]
ኃላፊ
875
true
1
1
[]
ኃላፊ
false
false
true
false
[ { "positions": [], "letters": [], "sources": [], "marked": "ኃላፊ", "root_frequency": 604, "pos_tags": [ "N" ], "alignment_ok": true, "rules": [], "native": false, "segs": [ "-<ሀላፊ>------" ] } ]
End of preview. Expand in Data Studio

Amharic Gemination Lexicon v3

Which consonants are doubled in each of 86,022 Amharic words, for every reading of the word, and where each doubling comes from. Built by Dataset.ET with the HornMorpho morphological analyzer, corrected with rules that native listening, Armbruster's hand-marked verb tables and recorded speech agree on.

Word types 86,022 (856,734 corpus tokens)
Analyzed by HornMorpho 56,964 types, 84.0% of tokens
Words with a geminate in the top reading 31,713 types, 27.2% of tokens
Accuracy against Armbruster, frequency-weighted exact 95.7% (v2: 95.6%, v1: 75.6%)
Two-geminate words exact 60/67 (v1: 0/64)
Native speaker, 22 labelled words, rules only 15/22 (v2: 9/22)
Predicted geminate / singleton duration, FLEURS speech 1.088x, 95% CI 1.064 to 1.114 (v2 labels)
Geminates v3 removes, FLEURS speech 0.87x a single consonant (678 tokens): not held

What changed in v3

v2 was HornMorpho's gemination, read faithfully. v3 corrects it where three independent kinds of evidence agree: a native Amharic speaker's judgements (letter taps, listening to a voice, and an audio A/B check), Armbruster's tables, and duration in FLEURS read speech.

Rule What it does Evidence FLEURS duration Tokens changed
relative_m_light the relative prefix's ም before a subject prefix (የሚ-, እንደሚ-, በሚ-, ከሚ-, ለሚ-, ስለሚ-, የምን-, የምት-, የማይ-) is not held native listener on የሚወስድ and የሚጠበቅ; HornMorpho and grammars write yämmɨ- removed geminates 0.87x, CI 0.84 to 0.91, 678 tokens (እንደሚ- 0.72, የሚ- 0.85, በሚ-/ከሚ-/ለሚ- about 1.0) 3.0%
causative_glottal a causative prefix ስ- or ስተ- on a root whose first radical is glottal holds the next root consonant (ማሳደ፟ግ, አሳይ፟ቷል, አስታው፟ስ) Armbruster 45 of 45 (HornMorpho dropped 17); native tap on ማሳደግ 1.21x, CI 1.07 to 1.37, 20 tokens 0.18%
relative_exist with relative የ-, the reading of አለ "exist" (ለ held) is ranked above አለ "say" native taps on ያለው, ያለውን, ያለበት; privative ያለመሆን and ያለምንም hold nothing 1.08x, CI 1.00 to 1.17, 225 tokens 0.53%

Native taps. For 19 words a native speaker tapped the held letters in a sentence (data/native_taps.json); each tap becomes that word's first reading and the row is flagged native_checked. Seven differ from the rules' output: ጠቅላላ, ማስተማር, ያለምንም, የገና, መጠጣት, እየተጠቀሙበት, ማጣጣም. An audio A/B check later confirmed መጠጣት (ጣ held). Taps that go beyond the textbook (ቅ in ጠቅላላ, ተ in ማስተማር and እየተጠቀሙበት, the final ም of ያለምንም) are not yet confirmed by audio: a letter can feel strong in text without being held.

Where the speaker and the textbook disagree, v3 follows the speaker. The biggest case is the relative ም: HornMorpho, grammars and Armbruster-style transcription double it, but it measures shorter than a single ም in read speech and the native listener hears no hold.

In total v3 changes the first reading of 5,556 word types (3.8% of tokens). Against Armbruster, 16 forms go from no prediction to exact and one (መጠጣት, where the native tap holds both ጠ and ጣ) goes from exact to partial.

What gemination is, and why it matters for speech

Amharic consonants come short or long, and the difference changes meaning. ገና is gäna "still, yet" or gänna "Christmas"; ዋና is wana "swimming" or wanna "main"; አለ is alä "he said" or allä "there is". Gemination also carries grammar: ይገባል is active yɨgäbal "he enters" or passive yɨggäbbal "it is proper", and only the doubling tells them apart.

Ge'ez script does not write it. The combining mark U+135F (፟) exists but is almost never used, so neither a TTS system reading Amharic text nor an ASR system writing it gets any signal about length from the spelling. A TTS voice has to guess from context; an ASR model has to map a long and a short consonant to the same letters.

How much this costs has been measured for Ethiopian languages that do write length. Ethio-ASR (Abdullah et al., 2026, section 6.4) found that normalising vowel length and gemination together lowers micro-average WER by about 10 to 13 points, 35 to 40% relative, across Oromo, Sidaama and Wolaytta, where length is spelled with doubled letters. The same test cannot be run for Amharic, because the transcripts carry no gemination to normalise. A lexicon like this one is what makes the Amharic question measurable.

Files

File Contents
data/gemination_lexicon_v3.jsonl one JSON object per word type, all readings (the Hub viewer shows this file)
data/gemination_lexicon_v3.csv the same rows flattened for spreadsheets
data/stats.json the coverage figures quoted below
data/native_taps.json the 19 native-speaker taps used as word overrides
code/gemination.py the extractor: HornMorpho seg to surface positions and sources, with the v3 rules (rules=False gives v2)
code/test_gemination.py tests against Armbruster forms, offline and with HornMorpho
code/install_hornmorpho.sh, code/INSTALL.md, code/patches/ pinned HornMorpho 5.3.6 install with its two patches
code/build_lexicon.py rebuilds data/ from the internal lexicon, re-deriving every seg-backed reading with gemination.py
validation/acoustic_v2.py, validation/geezmap.py the FLEURS duration analysis
validation/align_bare.jsonl.gz the CTC forced alignments it reads (FLEURS Amharic, 2,847 utterances)
validation/results_v2.json every number in the v2 acoustic section, v1 and v2 labels side by side
validation/results_v3.json the v3 duration check: prefix geminates by kind, consonants v3 adds and removes
validation/armbruster_scores_v3.json Armbruster scores for v2 and v3 in every view, plus the native-label check

Rows are sorted by corpus frequency, most frequent first.

JSONL fields

Positions are 0-based indices into the word's Unicode characters, one Ge'ez fidel per index. The "top" reading is the first one: a native tap if there is one, then the v3 ranking rule, then the reading whose root HornMorpho rates most frequent.

Field Type Meaning
word string the word type in Ge'ez script, as it occurs in the corpus
frequency int number of tokens of this word in the source corpus
analyzed bool HornMorpho returned at least one reading. false means unknown, not "no geminate"
n_readings int number of HornMorpho readings
n_patterns int number of distinct gemination patterns across those readings
geminates list[int] geminated positions in the top reading
marked string the word with U+135F after each geminated character of the top reading, e.g. ይገ፟ኛ፟ል
ambiguous bool readings disagree on gemination (n_patterns > 1); context is needed to choose
alignment_failed bool in at least one reading a geminate could not be placed on the surface word, so that reading's pattern may be missing a geminate
no_geminate_any_reading bool analyzed, and no reading has any geminate
native_checked bool a native speaker tapped this word's held letters; the tap is the top reading
readings list one entry per distinct pattern, top reading first (below)

Each entry in readings:

Field Type Meaning
positions list[int] geminated character positions
letters list[string] the characters at those positions
sources list[string] where each geminate comes from, aligned with positions (values below)
marked string the word with U+135F marks for this pattern
root_frequency int HornMorpho's frequency score for the root, used for ordering. Not a corpus count
pos_tags list[string] part-of-speech tags of the readings that share this pattern
alignment_ok bool every geminate of these readings was placed on the surface word
rules list[string] v3 rules that shaped this pattern: causative_glottal, relative_m_light, relative_exist
native bool this pattern is a native speaker's tap
segs list[string] up to three HornMorpho segmentations (degem=False) behind this pattern; / precedes each geminated letter. May be "" for function words HornMorpho does not segment

sources values:

Value Meaning Example
root the root's template doubles this consonant ጨም፟ሮ, seg <ጨ/ምር>
t-prefix the passive/reciprocal prefix t- merged into the next consonant ይገ፟ኛ፟ል, seg ይ</ገ/ኝ>
prefix a prefix outside the stem other than the relative yä-m- (which v3 removes), for example distributive የ in በየ፟ክልሉ seg በ-እ/የ<...>
suffix a suffix doubles: aux -all before a vowel, plural -očč, -nna ወጣ፟ቶች፟ና፟, seg -<ወ/ጣት>ኦ/ች-----/ና-
lexicon stored in an unanalysed dictionary entry ክል፟ል, seg <ክ/ልል>
reduplication the consonant repeats earlier in the same stem ገለባበ፟ጠ, seg <ገለባ/በጥ>
native a native tap with no HornMorpho reading behind it ጠቅ፟ላ፟ላ፟

Sources are read from the seg alone. On 3,558 geminates where HornMorpho's grammatical features were also available, this agrees with a feature-based attribution 95.7% of the time. The main confusion is root versus reduplication for roots whose second half repeats the first (ግልግል, ስብስብ).

CSV columns

word, frequency, analyzed, n_readings, n_patterns, ambiguous, alignment_failed, no_geminate_any_reading as above (booleans as 0/1). top_positions, top_letters, top_sources are space-separated values for the top reading, and top_marked its marked form. all_positions, all_sources, all_marked, all_root_frequency and all_pos_tags cover every pattern: patterns are separated by |, values inside a pattern by a space, in the same order as readings. An empty field between two | is a pattern with no geminate. The segs are only in the JSONL.

How the lexicon was built

  1. Vocabulary. Every word type in Dataset.ET's curated Amharic sentence corpus (see Coverage).
  2. Analysis. Each word goes through HornMorpho 5.3.6 (Michael Gasser) as hm.anal('a', word, degem=False). HornMorpho computes gemination while it analyses. It uses / internally to mark the character after it as doubled. The default degem=True strips those marks; degem=False keeps them in the seg string.
  3. Alignment. The seg is a morpheme sequence, not a copy of the word: vowels merge across boundaries (ቀም + ኣል gives ቀማል), palatalisation changes letters (ን + ኢ gives ኝ), and glottal letters of vowel-initial suffixes disappear. gemination.py aligns seg letters to the word by consonant series, folding labialised, palatal and homophone spellings, and moves each / onto the surface character it aligned with. Of 1,939 readings checked, one failed to align; across the vocabulary 118 types are flagged.
  4. Word-final rule. A geminate on the last letter is dropped only when it comes from a suffix and no vowel follows, which is the auxiliary -all of ይገኛል. It is not audible before a pause and Armbruster never marks it. Keeping it would drop exact accuracy on the top reading from 96.8% to 78.7% (frequency-weighted). Vowel-final suffixes and stem-final geminates stay.
  5. Patterns. Readings that double the same positions are merged, and patterns are ordered by HornMorpho's root frequency.
  6. v3 rules. causative_glottal and relative_m_light rewrite the seg before alignment; relative_exist reorders the patterns (see What changed in v3).
  7. Native taps go first for the 19 words in data/native_taps.json.

The v1 to v2 story. v1 of this lexicon read HornMorpho's +gemN feature instead of the seg. That feature only describes the root's own template, so v1 saw no gemination created by prefixes or suffixes, above all the passive t- merging into the first root consonant, and it could never find two geminates in one word. In reduplicated stems it also named the wrong letter, because N counts template slots, not root consonants (ገለባበጠ has +gem4, which points at ጥ; the doubled letter is በ). v2 reads every / in the seg. Counted over readings of 1,880 checked forms, the geminates come from: root template 1,687, t-prefix 1,061, suffixes 605, lexicon entries 130, reduplication 49.

Accuracy against Armbruster

Reference: the gemination-marked verb tables from C. H. Armbruster, Initia Amharica (Cambridge, 1908 to 1920), digitised in geezorg/data as amharic/verbs/ArmbrusterVerbs-Geminated-20081118.txt (3,409 forms carrying U+135F). Test set: the 536 most frequent Armbruster forms that occur in the source corpus. Unless noted, the prediction is the union over all readings and the reference the union over all of Armbruster's variants of the spelling, compared by consonant, and a word counts as exact only if the sets are equal.

v1 v2 v3
Exact, weighted by corpus frequency 75.6% 95.6% 95.7%
Exact, words with 1 reference geminate 302/331 (91.2%) 384/429 (89.5%) 393/438 (89.7%)
Exact, words with 2 reference geminates 0/64 (0%) 60/67 (89.6%) 60/67 (89.6%)
Exact, all judged words, unweighted 302/396 (76.3%) 444/497 (89.3%) 453/506 (89.5%)
Words with no geminate predicted 140 39 30

Other views of the same set, frequency-weighted exact:

View v1 v2 v3
Top reading only, exact if it equals any one Armbruster variant 90.0% 96.8% 96.9%
Top reading, compared by character position instead of consonant 96.6% 96.3%
Any reading equals any variant (what perfect disambiguation could reach) 83.5% 98.4% 98.5%

The one v3 row that drops is by position: it is the native tap on መጠጣት, a frequent word, against Armbruster's two verbs that each hold one consonant. Armbruster has no relative forms, so relative_m_light and relative_exist do not appear in these tables; their evidence is the native listener and the duration check.

On all 587 Armbruster forms with two or more marks in one variant, exact rose from 6.7% to 83.4%, and wholly wrong predictions fell from 41 to 0.

The 1-geminate row is slightly lower in v2 because v2 judges about 100 more words (words v1 left silent), and because homographs now produce two real patterns whose union matches no single Armbruster form. The top-reading and any-reading views do not have that penalty, and v2 is ahead in every row.

Acoustic validation

Do the consonants this lexicon calls doubled actually last longer in speech?

Data. FLEURS Amharic (train, dev and test; read speech with human transcripts). 2,847 of 3,902 utterances could be aligned; the rest contain digits or Latin script. The bottom 20% by alignment score were dropped, leaving 2,277.

Measurement. Forced alignment with Samuael/asr-amharic-phoneme-based-39-2 (wav2vec2 CTC phone recognizer, 20 ms frames). The alignment target never encodes gemination: a doubled consonant is one phone. Duration is the interval from the onset of the preceding vowel to the onset of the following vowel, divided by the utterance's mean onset interval to remove speaking rate. Tokens are word-medial consonants between two vowels, with the preceding vowel from a non-sixth-order letter, and the consonant occurring once in its word. Geminates come from words with exactly one gemination pattern; singletons are consonants in words whose single pattern has no geminate. The ratio comes from OLS on log duration with consonant fixed effects and standard errors clustered by word.

Rerun on v2 labels. The first run used v1 labels. Its singleton control still held geminates v1 could not see: 60 control tokens are doubled in Armbruster's own marks, against 4 with v2 labels. Same alignments, same token rules, same model; only the labels changed.

Geminate / singleton duration v1 labels v2 labels
All consonants 1.071 (1.044 to 1.098), p = 7e-8 1.088 (1.064 to 1.114), p = 7e-13
Tokens, geminate / singleton 1,702 / 16,516 4,089 / 10,647
Effect size, Cohen's d on log duration 0.21 0.32
Stops 1.022 (0.985 to 1.060), not significant 1.103 (1.069 to 1.139), p = 1e-9
Fricatives and affricates 1.079 (1.007 to 1.157) 1.084 (1.031 to 1.140)
Sonorants 1.107 (1.068 to 1.147) 1.079 (1.041 to 1.118)
Averaged per word type first 1.063 (1.040 to 1.086) 1.067 (1.048 to 1.087)
Ambiguous words, top reading's geminate 0.976, not significant 1.002, not significant
Female / male speakers 1.057 / 1.082 1.069 / 1.101

With v2 labels, v2 by source of the geminate:

Source Ratio (95% CI) Tokens
root 1.124 (1.092 to 1.158) 1,269
t-prefix 1.141 (1.100 to 1.182) 722
suffix (word-medial) 1.182 (1.087 to 1.284) 307
lexicon 1.115 (1.065 to 1.167) 1,207
prefix (relative yä-m-) 0.876 (0.838 to 0.915) 584
all except prefix 1.129 (1.102 to 1.157) 3,505

What this shows:

  • The labels were holding the first number down. The v1 study read its flat result for stops as the aligner being blind to silent closures. With cleaner labels stops lengthen by 10%, as much as any class. Much of the v1 null came from doubled stops sitting in the singleton control.
  • Every morphological source except one lengthens, including the t-prefix and suffix geminates v1 could not see.
  • The relative-prefix geminate does not. The doubled m of relative forms such as የሚ- measures shorter than an ordinary single m (all 584 tokens are ም or ይ). In careful read speech this doubling is either not produced or not visible to this aligner. See Limitations.
  • Words with two or more geminates show a larger effect (1.122) than single-geminate words (1.060), and words the lexicon calls ambiguous show none, which supports filtering on ambiguous.
  • The result does not depend on the score filter: dropping 0% to 50% of utterances gives 1.081 to 1.089.
  • Independent of HornMorpho, geminates marked by Armbruster measure 1.101 (1.038 to 1.168) against his undoubled consonants in the same words.

v3 duration check

Same alignments and token rules; the singleton control is consonants in settled words with no geminate in either v2 or v3 (validation/results_v3.json).

Tokens Ratio to singletons (95% CI) n
Geminates v2 and v3 share 1.129 (1.102 to 1.157) 3,505
Added by causative_glottal 1.207 (1.068 to 1.365) 20
Added by relative_exist 1.084 (1.003 to 1.171) 225
Removed by relative_m_light 0.872 (0.838 to 0.908) 678

Read these ratios as lower bounds. A CTC recognizer places narrow spikes, not segments. When the audio around real singleton consonants was stretched by 2x, this pipeline read back 1.74x, and by 1.5x it read 1.37x. Lab studies of geminating languages typically report 1.5x to 2x. No absolute durations from this study should be quoted as phonetic facts.

validation/acoustic_v2.py reproduces every number above from validation/align_bare.jsonl.gz, the lexicon, the FLEURS transcripts and the Armbruster file. It needs no GPU.

Known limitations

  • Active and passive homographs need context. ይገባል is yɨgäbal or yɨggäbbal; መለወጥ is mäläwwäṭ or mälläwäṭ. HornMorpho's root frequency often ties or picks the wrong one. 8,526 types (12.3% of tokens) are flagged ambiguous; the top reading is a guess for them. This is most of the gap between 96.8% (top reading) and 98.4% (any reading).
  • No geminate in any reading is not proof of none. 21,784 analyzed types have no geminate in any reading. Most really have none (እና, ላይ), but some are analyzer gaps: ተስፋ, ጠብቆ and the infinitive መከተል get readings without the doubling Armbruster marks (v3 fixed ማሳደግ and its class). Among the 536 test forms, 30 are silent this way.
  • Bare ያለ needs context. It is relative "that is" (ላይ ያለ, holds ለ), privative "without" (ያለ ምንም, light) or part of a compound with አለ "say" (ከፍ ያለ, ቀለል ያለ, light). v3 leaves it light. The same compounds make relative_exist over-hold forms such as ከፍ ያለውን.
  • The native evidence is one listener. The taps, the voice notes and the A/B check come from one native speaker. The rules are also backed by Armbruster or by speech from many FLEURS speakers; the word taps are not.
  • Unanalyzed words are unknown. 29,058 types (16.0% of tokens), mostly names, loanwords and misspellings, have analyzed: false and empty patterns.
  • Some double geminates are still missed. For a-stem passives HornMorpho's seg carries only one: ይታሽ is yɨttašš but gets only the t; ይታያል (yɨttayyal) misses the y. Forms with three or more geminates (for example የሚገኙ yämmiggäññu) are too rare in Armbruster to measure.
  • Prefix gemination. v3 removes the relative yä-m- geminate (see What changed in v3); it may still be heard in slow citation forms. The t-prefix geminate after the infinitive መ- and after subject prefixes is well supported by both Armbruster and the audio. The word-final auxiliary -all is dropped by design; before a further vowel (-allu) it is kept, which Armbruster barely covers.
  • Armbruster has errors. 17 variants put the mark on the subject prefix instead of the next letter (ይ፟ሰማ፟), some marks sit one letter off (ተቀምጦ፟ for täqämmɨṭo), and several forms mark only one of two real geminates (ይጫ፟ወታል). All of these count against the lexicon, so the accuracy figures are conservative. Armbruster describes early twentieth century Amharic; where it disagrees with a modern native speaker, trust the speaker.
  • Source labels are heuristic (95.7% agreement, see above).
  • Domain. The vocabulary comes from mostly news-style prose, so it leans formal, and the acoustic check is on read speech. Conversational speech likely reduces some geminates.
  • Word level only. Gemination that depends on the neighbouring word or on clitics written separately is not represented.

Coverage of the source corpus

The vocabulary is every word type in Dataset.ET's curated Amharic sentence corpus: 48,131 sentences, 856,734 tokens, 86,022 types. Dataset.ET is an open speech corpus for Ethiopian languages; contributors record these sentences through a Telegram bot and peer-validate each other's recordings. The text is mostly news-style prose.

Types Share of tokens
All word types 86,022 100%
Analyzed by HornMorpho 56,964 84.0%
Not analyzed (unknown) 29,058 16.0%
Ambiguous (readings disagree) 8,506 12.4%
Alignment failed in some reading 116 0.0%
Geminate in the top reading 31,713 27.2%
Geminate in any reading 35,180 35.1%
Two or more geminates in the top reading 9,192 4.8%

Geminates per word in the top reading, analyzed types: none 25,251; one 22,521; two 8,164; three 967; four 58; five 3.

Sources of top-reading geminates, weighted by corpus frequency: root 83,622; lexicon 79,252; t-prefix 52,434; suffix 52,407; reduplication 6,708; prefix 2,612; native 1,737.

On FLEURS Amharic transcripts (65,305 tokens), with v2 labels, 45.9% of tokens are in words settled with no geminate, 16.2% in words settled with a geminate (6.8% with v1), 11.3% ambiguous, 4.4% unanalyzed, and 22.1% not in the lexicon.

How to use it

import json
lex = {}
with open("data/gemination_lexicon_v3.jsonl", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    for line in f:
        r = json.loads(line)
        lex[r["word"]] = r

e = lex["ይገኛል"]
e["marked"], e["geminates"], e["readings"][0]["sources"]
# ('ይገ፟ኛ፟ል', [1, 2], ['t-prefix', 'root'])

For words not in the lexicon, run the extractor (code/INSTALL.md): python code/gemination.py <word>.

TTS. Put gemination into the front end, before the model sees the input. With a phoneme front end, lengthen or double the consonant at each position in geminates (for example IPA ɡː); with a character front end, insert U+135F from marked and make sure the model's vocabulary has a symbol for it. Use the top reading only when ambiguous is false, or pick the reading from sentence context (a part-of-speech tagger helps with active/passive pairs). Leave analyzed: false words unmarked rather than assuming singletons, or train a character-level fallback on the analyzed words. A voice trained on doubled-consonant input should be checked by a native listener on minimal pairs such as ገና and ዋና.

ASR. The lexicon gives geminate-aware pronunciations for HMM/GMM aligners such as Montreal Forced Aligner (add long consonant phones), labels for measuring how often a recognizer confuses long and short consonants, and a way to build length-aware phone targets for auxiliary losses. We have not yet measured an ASR gain from it; the Ethio-ASR result above is the reason to try.

Citation

@misc{datasetet_amharic_gemination_2026,
  title        = {Amharic Gemination Lexicon v3},
  author       = {{Dataset.ET}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {Hugging Face dataset},
  note         = {86,022 word types; built with HornMorpho 5.3.6, native-validated rules}
}

Please also cite the tools and references it rests on:

@inproceedings{gasser2011hornmorpho,
  title     = {HornMorpho: a system for morphological processing of Amharic, Oromo, and Tigrinya},
  author    = {Gasser, Michael},
  booktitle = {Conference on Human Language Technology for Development},
  address   = {Alexandria, Egypt},
  year      = {2011}
}

@book{armbruster1908initia,
  title     = {Initia Amharica: An Introduction to Spoken Amharic},
  author    = {Armbruster, Charles Hubert},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  year      = {1908}
}

@inproceedings{conneau2023fleurs,
  title     = {FLEURS: Few-shot Learning Evaluation of Universal Representations of Speech},
  author    = {Conneau, Alexis and Ma, Min and Khanuja, Simran and Zhang, Yu and Axelrod, Vera and Dalmia, Siddharth and Riesa, Jason and Rivera, Clara and Bapna, Ankur},
  booktitle = {IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT)},
  year      = {2023}
}

@misc{abdullah2026ethioasr,
  title         = {Ethio-ASR: Joint Multilingual Speech Recognition and Language Identification for Ethiopian Languages},
  author        = {Abdullah, Badr M. and Azime, Israel Abebe and Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo and others},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2603.23654},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}

Maintained by Dataset.ET. Corrections from native speakers are welcome.

Downloads last month
68

Paper for Chapimenge/amharic-gemination-lexicon