Motu dictionary online form

We are glad to have on our Motu Dictionary Project team the expertise of Amuthageetha Nagarajan who has created an online form hosted on dwuonline that end users can use to add Motu Words to the dictionary.

The Wiktionary project is a collaborative project and we aim to involve as many people as we can. In the effort to do this, Amutha has created an easy-to-use online form from the same format as the java applet interface.

You can now add words by simply going online here and adding a word to the Motu Dictionary.

Please feel free to share this with your colleagues.

Online form to add a word to Motu Dictionary

The end-user java applet for mobile compatibility

Dictionary workshop

In my last post, I mentioned about the dictionary workshop we have been planning for the past weeks. Its been finally done! Thanks to the hard work of Mr. Kari Totona and the support from Central & NCD Students Association.

The workshop was held on Saturday 15th here at DWU, Madang. Mr. Totona sent an open invitation to other staff to join us for an interesting session on the software that SIL use to create simple dictionaries for local languages. Mr. Ray Stiegemen was the facilitator of the workshop.

l-r: Mr. Matbob, Mr. Mahap, Mr. Totona, Mr. Stiegemen, Dr. Sai, Ms. Barnabas

We were glad to have other staff from the CA, PGIR, and Physiotherapy join us. From the Team, only myself and Mr. Totona were there to be part of the workshop.
The one day workshop introduced the software WeSay and its basic functionality in adding, editing words, definitions and all the other language semantics. Apart from that we were glad to learn that you can add images and sounds to the dictionary for pronunciation and example sentences.

All who attended were glad to be part of an enriching experience in the use of software to record our local languages. 

The software is called WeSay ver.1.4. For installation you also need to install Prince ver.9.0 platform and the ArtOfReading3FreeSetup which is a free tool.

Here is a screenshot of the WeSay application window. A great tool indeed.

For ease of download, I have added both the WeSay and ArtofReading to my blog library on Google Drive which you can download here...

• WeSay ver1.4 (21MB)
• ArtOfReading3 (will add later, 297MB)
• Princever9.0 (10MB)

Visit this sites for more information on the software

• http://wesay.palaso.org/

• http://www.sil.org/resources/software_fonts/wesay 

Workshop on language software for dictionary

Plans are underway and progressing well to bring a linguistic expert from SIL Ukarumpa, Goroka to run a one-day workshop on the use of a language software.

We are currently arranging the logistics at our end here. Will sure post some more info and pics soon about the progress of the planned workshop.

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Download link for the Android English-Motu App beta version developed by David Sikar (MCS Yr4 student, DWU)
Download link here Android Motu App 1.0
You can review it and leave your comments at the end of this post...this is still under development as we look at adding more features and more words.

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In the meantime, please do take part in our online survey to gather information on the usage of the MOTU language among our Motuan people.

Take the ONLINE SURVEY

You can download the survey here and complete it offline and email to pairi@dwu.ac.pg