Datasets:
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>------"
]
}
] |
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
- Vocabulary. Every word type in Dataset.ET's curated Amharic sentence corpus (see Coverage).
- 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 defaultdegem=Truestrips those marks;degem=Falsekeeps them in thesegstring. - 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.pyaligns 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. - 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.
- Patterns. Readings that double the same positions are merged, and patterns are ordered by HornMorpho's root frequency.
- v3 rules.
causative_glottalandrelative_m_lightrewrite the seg before alignment;relative_existreorders the patterns (see What changed in v3). - 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_existover-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: falseand 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}
}
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