Arabic language support

[adhaamehab]

Hi all,

I want to work on arabic language support. Any advice on how I should start ?

[ghost]

A good start is to first know the Arabic alphabet, and use an Arabic keyboard. You should be able to use an Arabic keyboard on almost every operating system, including iOS. Then, you should learn parts-of-speech and qualities like gender. Practicing grammar will also help. Then, you could start researching vocabulary from WordReference. The parser code for Arabic should not be too different from other languages, unlike languages like Swiss German. Also, be aware that letters can change depending on if they are at the beginning, middle, or end of a word, or isolated.

[adhaamehab]

@MohamedAlFahim Thanks for your response. I'm fluent arabic speaker. My question is more about language extension addition process

[ghost]

In that case, you should start by creating an “ar” folder under pattern/text, then fill it with files like ar-verbs.txt (verb conjugation), ar-context.txt (sentence structure), ar-lexicon.txt (word list), and inflect.py (for modifying words). Again, Arabic shares certain structures from other languages, so it is possible to copy-paste some existing structures (like from Pattern's English).