Linguistics Tools

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Alphabet Size By Language Lookup Caller explicit independently segmented alphabet inventory; multigraph letters must be supplied as single tokens, not count Unicode code points. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Arabic Loanwords in Spanish Count Lookup Independently verified corpus/dictionary edition Arabic-origin Spanish count record; no fixed language-wide count. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Arabic Three-Letter Root Share Audit letter lengths of caller already identified Arabic roots, ignoring combining vowel marks and retaining nontriliteral roots; does not extract roots from words or infer language-wide share.
ARPABET to IPA Mapping Lookup Convert supported CMU ARPABET with unstressed AH/ER reductions and separately preserved 0/1/2 stress annotations; −1 means no explicit stress suffix, no inferred syllabification or misplaced syllable stress markers.
Australian English Vowel Shift Lookup Independently documented AustralianEnglish variety/lexical-set shift reference. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Braille Grade 1 vs Grade 2 Diff Lookup Contrast caller selected uncontracted/contracted braille, not visual translation or automatic universal Grade2code. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Brazilian vs European Portuguese Split Independently verified Brazilian/EuropeanPortuguese variety/context contrast, no all-speaker generalization. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Calque Example Pair Lookup Independently documented translated morphology/source-target calque evidence, not automatic etymology. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Cantonese Nine Tones Traditional Lookup Traditional nine Cantonese tone numbering distinguishes checked syllables, not nine distinct pitch heights or Jyutping1–6identity. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Case System Count By Language Lookup Caller explicit independently defined grammatical-case inventory for variety/method, syncretic spellings not merged by string equality. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Castilian Distinción Theta Check Audit explicitly annotated Spanish lexical s versus c/z sets and observed s/θ/other realizations, preserving missing evidence; supports distinction screening, not national/regional stereotypes or inferred pronunciation from spelling.
Chinese Common Character Stroke Count Lookup Independently verified Han character/form/tradition stroke-count record; simplified/traditional and glyph forms differ. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Click Consonants Language Lookup Independently attested contrastive click evidence vs caller phoneme inventory reference, loans/allophones explicitly caller established. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Cognate vs Loanword Classifier Independently documented historical inheritance vs borrowing/contact evidence for cognate/loanword relation; surface spelling is not proof. Independently declared positive requirements, overlapping/unknown classes retained. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Comparative Adjective Apply common English comparative spelling rules to a lowercase adjective, choosing -er for simple one-syllable forms and “more” otherwise. Irregular forms such as good/better require a dictionary and are outside this heuristic.
Consonant Inventory Size Band Lookup Caller independently analyzed consonant phoneme inventory including method-specific affricate segmentation. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Constructed Language Creator & Year Lookup Independently verified constructed-language creator/edition/date record. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Cot-Caught Merger Region Lookup Caller independently documented dialect/context cot–caught merger reference, not speaker identity inferred from geography. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Countries Count By Official Language Lookup Count actual distinct caller verified official-language jurisdictions, separately preserve unknown status and declared jurisdiction universe; no inferred global country total. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Creole Origin Pair Lookup Independently verified creole lexifier/substrate contact pair reference; complex/disputed origins not collapsed into proven binary ancestry. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Cyrillic-Script Countries Checker Independently verified jurisdiction/language/year Cyrillic-use reference, not language/script identity from country. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Dash Usage Rules By Language Lookup Independently verified language/locale/editorial dash-use reference, not blanket punctuation replacement. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Date Format Locale Order Lookup Resolve runtime locale Gregorian numeric date-part order with fixed UTC/Latin-digit unambiguous probe, not the locale’s preferred calendar, actual date parsing or current-clock dependence.
Decimal Comma vs Point Region Lookup Probe supported caller locale decimal separator through runtime Intl/ICU, retaining non-comma/non-point separators rather than stereotyping a region; no decimal parsing or currency-format alias.
Ejective Consonants Language Lookup Independently attested contrastive ejective evidence under caller variety/protocol inventory. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
English Germanic vs Latin Origin Percent Estimate Observed caller independently etymologized token shares, unknowns retained; does not infer word origins from spellings or offer a universal English percentage.
English Loanword Source Era Lookup Independently verified English lexeme/source/borrowing-era etymological record, disputed origins remain source evidence. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
English Pluralizer Apply common English plural spelling rules and a small irregular-noun table to a lowercase noun. English exceptions are extensive, so treat the result as a rule-based suggestion rather than a dictionary lookup.
English Singularizer Apply common English singular spelling rules and a small irregular-noun table to a lowercase plural noun. English exceptions are extensive, so treat the result as a rule-based suggestion rather than a dictionary lookup.
Extinct Language Year Famous Cases Lookup Independently verified language/dialect/source last-speaker or documentation event, not universal year of linguistic extinction. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
False-Friend Pair Examples Lookup Independently verified cross-language senses for false-friend pair; cognacy/translation not inferred from spelling. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Family-First Name Order Culture Classifier Independently verified locale/context/caller name-order reference, no parsing a personal name or inferring nationality. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Fictional Language Source Work Lookup Independently verified fictional language/source-work/edition record. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Finnish 15-Case Table Lookup Supported traditional15Finnish case-label descriptors, not suffix generation or uniform accusative paradigm. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
First Day of Week Locale Lookup Exact independently verified locale/CLDR edition first-day-of-week lookup, Monday 1..Sunday7; not date order, week numbering or inferred current host locale. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
French Space-Before-Punctuation Rule Normalize internal plain-prose spacing before French semicolon/question/exclamation/colon using explicit caller regional typographic choices, preserving start-of-line marks; not safe for URLs/code or a universal language-wide spacing rule.
Front Rounded Vowels Language Lookup Caller independently documented front-rounded vowel inventory reference, not script diacritic assumption. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
General American Features Lookup Independently documented GeneralAmerican variety/source feature reference, no speaker identification. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
German Compound Noun Length Estimate Budget actual caller German compound components and explicit linking elements under length policy, using NFC code points and preserving supplied case; no morphological segmentation, grammatical capitalization or dictionary-valid compound invention.
Germanic Strong Verb Ablaut Pattern Lookup Independently verified Germanic verb/class/variety ablaut paradigm, not generated conjugation of unseen verbs. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Grammatical Gender Count By Language Caller explicit independently defined grammatical-gender inventory for variety/method, not natural sex labels. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Great Vowel Shift Date Range Lookup Independently verified region/feature/source GreatVowelShift chronology, not universal simultaneous date range. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Greek Question Mark Semicolon Quirk Audit caller plain Greek punctuation and NFC-normalize U+037E to canonical semicolon question mark; semicolons are interpreted under explicit Greek context, not automatically identified in mixed-language text.
Grimm Law Correspondence Pair Lookup Independently verified conditioned ProtoIndoEuropean/ProtoGermanic sound correspondence, not arbitrary modern phoneme replacement. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Hangul Jamo Composition Count Resolve exact modern Hangul L/V/optional-T composition and per-syllable jamo counts after NFC, not random Hangul generation or archaic/conjoining-jamo inventory inference.
Hebrew Final-Forms Letter Set Normalize five Hebrew final forms at explicit unpointed word ends and medialize internal final letters, preserving caller word boundaries; no automatic morphology, niqqud processing or language identification.
High German Consonant Shift Pair Check Audit actual independently conditioned HighGerman consonant shift source/target token pairs; caller supplies positional/date conditioning, no automatic word-level historical transformation. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Historic Lingua Franca Period Lookup Independently verified regional/period lingua-franca evidence, not inferred official status. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Honorifics System By Language Lookup Independently verified language/variety/register honorific system reference. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Hungarian Vowel Harmony Classifier Audit observed common Hungarian back/front/neutral spelling classes (é/i/í neutral in this model), retaining mixed and neutral-only ambiguity; lexical antiharmony and suffix choice cannot be inferred solely from this screen.
IPA Consonant Place-Manner Grid Lookup Resolve bounded supported basic plain IPA consonants to place/manner/voicing, including Latin g alias for IPA ɡ; unsupported affricates/diacritics remain explicit errors, no acoustic classification.
IPA Vowel Height/Backness Classifier Resolve 28 supported plain standard IPA vowel symbols to chart height/backness/rounding descriptors; explicit tokens required, unsupported diacritics/compound vowels are rejected, not silently stripped.
Isochrony Class Note Lookup Qualified caller-reference registry: actual language variety, speech style and independently evaluated rhythm/isochrony study; stress/syllable categories not treated as exact timing laws. Requires independently applicable source/context/date evidence; not an authoritative table, omitted predictive model, diagnosis, permission, safety or compliance determination.
Japanese Counter Word Pair Lookup Independently verified item-class/context Japanese counter and conditioned pronunciation record. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Kana-Rōmaji Mapping Lookup Apply longest-match caller kana-to-romaji mappings with unmatched text/indices retained, avoiding invented Hepburn/Kunrei/assimilation choices; dictionary coverage and contextual sokuon/long-vowel rules remain caller responsibility.
Kanji Jōyō Grade Level Lookup Independently verified Japanese character/curriculum edition school-grade or unassigned record. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Korean Honorific Speech Levels Count Count independently specified Korean register-level inventory under caller classification tradition, six/seven distinctions not collapsed into a universal count. Exact independently matched reference; signed deviations retained. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Language Family Tree Depth Lookup Resolve actual caller family-tree forest depth/lineage with cycle detection and explicit roots, not fixed lineage claims; one-parent model does not represent contact, disputed or overlapping classifications.
Lateral Types Inventory Lookup Caller independently documented lateral phonetic inventory/class reference. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Latin American Seseo Check Classify caller transcribed /s/ merger observations; not geographic, demographic or identity inference.
Letter Frequency Rank By Language Lookup Table Rank actual corpus letters under caller single-letter alphabet with competition ties and unlisted evidence retained; not an embedded language frequency table, digraph segmentation or transliteration.
Mandarin Four Tones + Neutral Lookup Supported Mandarin citation-tone labels plus neutral0, not automatic tone sandhi or pitch contour extraction. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Most-Spoken Languages Top-20 Rank Lookup Rank independently same-year/definition speaker evidence with competition ties and top20membership; caller population/variety grouping completeness required, no live ranking. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Mutual Intelligibility Percent Pair Lookup Audit actual two-direction word-comprehension test counts with asymmetric rates and observed-word pooling; absent direction stays −1 with explicit evidence flag, not assumed mutual intelligibility or a population-language percentage.
Nasal Vowels Language Checker Independently documented contrastive nasal vowels, not merely nasalization before nasal consonants. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Norman French Influence Period Lookup Independently verified regional/social/lexical NormanFrench contact-period reference. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Norse Loanwords in English Legacy Lookup Independently verified English lexeme/sense Norse contact etymology reference. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Number Grouping Locale Format Lookup Resolve actual runtime Intl integer grouping pattern for supported caller locale using exact decimal-text BigInt, retaining non-Western group sizes/native digits; host ICU/CLDR conventions are runtime-dependent, not fixed language-wide rules.
Pidgin vs Creole Classifier Caller independently documented transmission/community/functional-domain evidence for pidgin/creole candidate criteria, not a social label inferred from simplicity. Independently declared positive requirements, overlapping/unknown classes retained. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Pin-Pen Merger Region Lookup Caller independently documented dialect/pre-nasal context pin–pen merger reference. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Quebecois French Features Lookup Independently documented QuebecFrench variety/context feature reference. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Quotation Mark Style By Language Lookup Independently verified language/locale/editorial edition quotation-mark style, not normalize prose without context. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
R-Dropping Dialect Classifier Screen explicitly observed r retention by annotated prevocalic versus nonprevocalic contexts, preserving missing-context evidence; no region/dialect assignment, linking-r/intrusive-r modeling or audio diagnosis.
Received Pronunciation Features Lookup Independently documented RP variety/source feature reference, not accent identification. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Register vs Contour Tone Classifier Screen observed relative pitch trajectory under explicit tolerance for flat versus rising/falling/turning contour, preserving complex/subthreshold evidence; not a language’s tone-system classification or fundamental-frequency extraction.
Regular Past Tense Apply common -ed spelling rules to a lowercase regular English verb, including consonant-y and short one-syllable CVC forms. Stress-dependent doubling and irregular verbs require a dictionary and are outside this heuristic.
Rhotics Type By Language Lookup Caller independently documented rhotic phonetic inventory/class reference, no inference from orthographic r. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Romance Latin Root Percent Estimate Audit Latin-origin share of caller classified lexeme inventory, separately exposing unknown weight and conditional versus all-observation denominators; no embedded language-wide ancestry percentages or verified etymology.
RTL/LTR Script Direction Classifier Audit letters in an explicitly bounded selected-script subset for common RTL/LTR direction and first classified letter; other scripts remain unclassified. Not Unicode bidi-class/UAX#9 layout, spoof detection or inferred language.
Semantic Shift Type Classifier Classify caller explicit semantic extensions by retained/lost/gained referents, distinguishing narrowing/broadening/overlap; not automatic metaphor, evaluative shift or historical-causation inference.
Sign Language Family Lookup Independently verified language/edition sign-language family affiliation, spoken language and country do not determine sign genealogy. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Spanish Inverted Punctuation Placement Rule Audit actual properly nested Spanish inverted/closing question and exclamation marks with source code-point indices; matching is structural only, not a claim about where a grammatical interrogative begins or missing punctuation in unmarked prose.
Speakers Per Language Millions Lookup Aggregate independently documented nonoverlapping speaker populations in millions, not double-counted native/L2totals or fixed-language lookup. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Stopword-Based Language Guess Score Score bounded caller multilingual stopword profiles against actual NFC lexical tokens with tied winners and absent evidence retained; unlike existing fixed English whitespace counter, no confidence calibration or definitive language identification.
Stress-Timed vs Syllable-Timed Classifier Audit measured nPVI, population syllable variability and %V over reconciled actual interval coverage under caller threshold; does not assign language rhythm classes, prove isochrony or extract intervals from audio.
Superlative Adjective Apply common English superlative spelling rules to a lowercase adjective, choosing -est for simple one-syllable forms and “most” otherwise. Irregular forms such as good/best require a dictionary and are outside this heuristic.
Syllable Structure Type Lookup (CV/CVC) Audit explicitly annotated observed syllable onset/nucleus/coda patterns, retaining diphthong VV nuclei and actual inventory; no phonetic segmentation or language-wide permissible template inference.
T-V Distinction Languages Checker Caller independently documented register/person/context T–V address distinction, not universal polite-pronoun prescription. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Tense-Aspect System By Language Lookup Independently verified variety/construction tense-aspect system record, not English category projection. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
TH-Fronting Dialect Lookup Independently verified dialect/context TH-fronting observations; no region stereotype or automatic speaker assignment. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Thai Tone Marker Rule Lookup Independently verified consonant-class/tone-mark/vowel-length/live-dead syllable conditioned Thai tone rule, no mark-only assignment. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Top Irregular English Past Tenses Lookup Resolve bounded supported common English irregular past spellings with explicit was/were agreement and unchanged unknowns flagged; unlike existing regular-past tool, no guessed regularization, past participles or pronunciation of read.
Top Irregular English Plurals List Lookup Bounded common irregular English plural reference, sense/register-sensitive and not a full inflection engine.
Total Phoneme Count Estimate By Language Caller independently analyzed complete phoneme inventory; no additive vowel/consonant double count or automatic linguistic analysis. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
UN Six Official Languages Checker Check named six UN official languages by explicit ISO639-1codes; zh denotes Chinese macro-language, not guarantee every variety is an official interpretation language. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
UNESCO Endangerment Scale Lookup UNESCO transmission-category descriptor for independently assigned assessment, not diagnose endangerment from speaker count. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Unicode Block Range For Script Lookup Bounded selected common Unicode block ranges for supported script groups; blocks include punctuation/non-script characters and are not Unicode Script property membership or complete script coverage. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Usted vs Tú Region Map Lookup Independently verified region/register/relationship usted/tú usage reference, not universal etiquette advice. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Uvular R Language Lookup Caller independently documented context-specific uvular rhotic evidence, not universal r pronunciation by nationality. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Vietnamese Six Tones Lookup Northern six-tone orthographic label descriptors; phonetic realizations vary and other varieties can merge labels. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Voseo Region Lookup Independently verified region/register/context voseo use record, not geographic guarantee. Exact independently verified context/edition key, not live or embedded reference data. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Vowel Inventory Size Band Lookup Caller independently analyzed vowel phoneme inventory, not allophonic phone/chart count. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
Word Order Typology SOV/SVO/VSO Lookup Classify one caller explicitly annotated clause permutation, not a claim of dominant word order for a language or automatic syntax/subject detection.
Writing System Type Classifier (Alphabet/Abjad/Abugida/Logographic) Classify independently documented segment/word/sign mapping and vowel representation evidence against caller script-type criteria, retaining mixed systems; not identity from Unicode block. Independently declared positive requirements, overlapping/unknown classes retained. Caller establishes language, dialect, method and reference context; no automatic identity or universal language-wide claim.
X-SAMPA to IPA Converter Convert supported plain X-SAMPA base and separate stress/length/nasalization tokens to IPA, including multichar backslash symbols; input tokenization is explicit and unsupported context/affricates are not guessed.