Klingon

Word lists and spell checking for Klingon (tlh), a constructed language from the Star Trek universe.

Source

The source for the word list and spell checking, with permission and under the same license, is {boQwI'}.

Installation

Install the word list and spell checker packages from the packages directory with the command sudo dpkg -i followed by the filenames of the packages that need to be installed.

Command-line spell checkers such as Hunspell and Nuspell as well as GUI applications such as LibreOffice and Mozilla's Firefox are able to use the Klingon spell checker.

Word List

The word list in Latin script is in the ASCII file generated/klingon-latin. The same list transliterated in Klingon script is in the file generated/klingon. Note that the encoding has private-use characters. To display these properly, a font supporting Klingon characters need to be installed.

See the section on installation to make the word lists available as /usr/share/dict/klingon-latin and /usr/share/dict/klingon

Spell checker

Spell checker support has been made for Hunspell and Nuspell. It can be found in the files generated/tlh_Latn.dic and generated/tlh_Latn.aff for Latin script. For Klingon script, see generated/tlh.dic and generated/tlh.aff.

See the section on installation to make the spell checker directly available in Hunspell and Nuspell. It will install the .aff and .dic files in /usr/share/hunspell. Example usage then is:

hunspell -d tlh_Latn -a /usr/share/dict/klingon-latin
hunspell -d tlh -a /usr/share/dict/klingon
nuspell -d tlh_Latn /usr/share/dict/klingon-latin
nuspell -d tlh /usr/share/dict/klingon

See the test script on how to use the spell checker without installing the packages. Simply use absolute or relative paths.

Building

To build, tast and package all the files, simply run the scripts in the scripts directory in their order:

1. ./1-download-word-list.sh
2. ./2-extract-words.sh
3. ./3-generate-files.sh (which calls 3-generate-files.py)
4. ./4-transliterate.py (see the result in directory generated)
5. ./5-test-spell-checking.sh (see the result in directory test)
6. ./6-package.sh (see the result in directory packages)

See also

The following sources are relevant:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_grammar
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_Language_Institute
• https://kli.org
• https://github.com/De7vID/klingon-assistant
• http://evertype.com/standards/csur/klingon.html
• http://klingonska.org
• http://klingonwiki.net
• https://nuspell.github.io