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Kalaallissut Learners

A hub of tools and resources for learning and working with the Greenlandic language — jandahl's own projects alongside official dictionaries and community work.

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My Projects

Kalaallisut Tools & Data

oq

Kalaallisut morphological dictionary and word builder. A vanilla-JS Progressive Web App with offline support, dictionary search across multiple sources, and an experimental morpheme builder.

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KalaalliCut

Zero-malloc C17 morphology engine for Kalaallisut. Assembles words from root/affix/inflection sequences and applies sandhi rules at each boundary; ports to WASM, ESP32, and other embedded targets. Powers the morphology behind oq.

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Oqaasileriffik-katersat (JSON exporter)

Fork of Oqaasileriffik's katersat linguistic database that adds a JSON export pipeline, publishing 87,000+ lexemes with semantic classes, valence frames, and domains for use by web tools.

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Oqaasileriffik-ipa-ks

Orthography-to-IPA transcription engine for Kalaallisut. Generates pronunciation indices consumed by oq's dictionary entries.

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Oqaasileriffik-dict-spell

Kalaallisut spell-check word lists, split by letter, for building spell-checkers and other text tooling.

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Oqaasileriffik-gloss

Interlinear glossing pipeline (kal2dan / kal2eng) combining FST morphological analysis and constraint grammar to gloss Kalaallisut text word-by-word.

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Oqaasileriffik-predict

Research on predictive-text strategies for Kalaallisut — corpus loading plus token and morph-unit frequency analysis. Work in progress.

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Oqaasileriffik-predict-web

Web front-end experiments for Kalaallisut predictive text, including enclitic normalization and flexion/syllable n-gram work. Work in progress.

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Oqaasileriffik-kal-hybrid-mt

Experiments in hybrid machine translation for Kalaallisut, mixing tagged/PUA token representations with syntactic and semantic annotation. Work in progress.

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Oqaasileriffik-lt-course

Lecture notes and materials from a language-technology course applied to Kalaallisut.

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jandahl-custom-KAL-grammarian

Hand-authored Kalaallisut morpheme data feeding oq's word builder. Despite the name, this is a personal, non-authoritative scaffold — not an Oqaasileriffik project — and its lexemes should be verified against Oqaasileriffik dictionaries.

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KAL-grammarian

Grammar and morphological analysis tool for Kalaallisut. Grammar checking, parsing, and educational feedback for learners and developers working with the language.

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Kalaallit meeqqanut erinarsuutaat

Songs, stories, and language materials in Kalaallisut for children.

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Elsewhere

Official & Community Resources

Oqaasileriffik/dicts

Source dictionary repository for the 2018 Chicago Kalaallisut-English Dictionary data — the upstream data behind oq's dictionary search.

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By Oqaasileriffik · CC-BY-SA 4.0

Oqaasileriffik/katersat

Oqaasileriffik's comprehensive linguistic database — lexemes, word classes, domains, semantic classes, and valence data for Kalaallisut.

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By Oqaasileriffik · GPL-3.0

GiellaLT/lang-kal

Kalaallisut language technology package for finite-state morphology and constraint grammar analysis — the canonical FST/CG3 analyzer for the language.

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By GiellaLT · GPL-3.0

Oqaasileriffik Morphemes (MOFO)

Oqaasileriffik's interactive online directory and search tool for Kalaallisut morphemes and grammar particles.

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By Oqaasileriffik · Indeterminate

Kalaallisut Dictionary & Obsidian Vault

A community-driven Kalaallisut dictionary project and an Obsidian vault structure for language learning.

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By Lillyliv7 · GPL-3.0

KARMA

Kalaallisut-English translation tools and NLP resources.

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By alexhsu-nlp · GPL-3.0

Word List – Oqaatsit allattukkat (2018)

The official tri-lingual dictionary (English-Kalaallisut-Danish) published by Ilinniusiorfik.

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By Ilinniusiorfik · Indeterminate

Grønlandsk ordbog

Online Greenlandic dictionary and learning resource.

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By Hustruhobby · Indeterminate

Groenord.dk

A comprehensive Greenlandic-Danish dictionary.

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By Groenord · Indeterminate