Aligner is a free lightweight web tool for creating aligned bilingual examples and glossed linguistic illustrations. It is useful for language documentation, language-learning materials, translation pedagogy, conlang presentation, and general linguistics teaching because it makes word-level correspondences, reordering, and phrase-to-phrase mappings visually explicit.
Web-app link: https://aligner.tinygods.dev/
Repo link: https://github.com/tinygodsdev/bitext-word-alignment
License: MIT http://dlvr.it/TSxSdN
Cold take but all languages are beautiful actually. Every single one. Every single human language on earth is a collection of stories interwoven into the very fabric of the words that are spoken.
âOh but this language sounds scary-â have you heard a child speak it while pointing at a butterfly?
âOh but this language sounds silly-â have you heard someoneâs grandma recite a recipe with such practiced ease it comes off as poetry?
âOh but this language is really weird-â and yours isnât? Everyoneâs language is weird, dumbass, it came free with your fucking humanity.
Every tongue that is spoken is a work of art. Every language a unique window into the world.
In Irish, there is only has 11 irregular verbs! And one of the most used verbs is âto beâ which is âtĂĄâ (or bĂ/bhĂ in past tense) and âisâ (the copula), which can be used to describe someone or inform about what something is or whatâs happening.
The difference can be hard for people to learn but donât worry about it! Mistakes are progress!
Generally, âtĂĄâ is more objective or not set in stone (adjectives, places). Famously in Irish, you are not sad but you have sadness on you - TĂĄ brĂłn orm - as feelings are temporary and not who we are.
The negative form of âtĂĄâ is ânĂâ and the negative form of âisâ is nĂl.
Grammar and Sentence Structure
The basic Irish sentence structure is VSO (Verb Subject Object) and English has a SVO structure. Verbs (actions/doing words) usually come first, then the subject (the doer of the action, e.g. me, you, them), and the object or place related to the action.
Irish also uses a VSP structure. The P is the predicate, which are adjectives/describing words, adverbs/descriptive actions, and prepositional phrases, that come after the subject object that the word is describing or providing information to. For example; TĂĄ SeĂĄn lĂĄidir - SeĂĄn is strong, BhĂ Niamh istigh - Niamh was inside.
A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. E.g. words like before - roimh, on - ar, under - faoi, inside - istigh, and over - thar.
Prepositional pronouns are a combination of prepositions (under, over, etc.) and pronouns (I, me, you), which makes âat me - agamâ and âat you - agatâ. However, to describe something with VSP you cannot use another noun with this structure (tĂĄ/bhĂ) as they canât be placed after the prepositional pronoun.
Verbal / perverbal particles change the intention of a sentence so they can make a sentence a question, negative, or negative question.
Some irregular verbs have dependent forms after verbal pronouns.
TĂĄ SeĂĄn lĂĄidir - SeĂĄn is strong, an bhfuil SeĂĄn lĂĄidir? - is SeĂĄn strong?, NĂĄ fuil SeĂĄn lĂĄidir? - isnât SeĂĄn strong?, nĂl SeĂĄn lĂĄidir - SeĂĄn isnât strong.
A more detailed sentence structure would be: preverbal particle (an, nĂ, nĂos) verb, subject, direct object or predicate adjective, indirect object, location descriptor, manner descriptor, time descriptor.
In Irish, there is only has 11 irregular verbs! And one of the most used verbs is âto beâ which is âtĂĄâ (or bĂ/bhĂ in past tense) and âisâ (the copula), which can be used to describe someone or inform about what something is or whatâs happening.
The difference can be hard for people to learn but donât worry about it! Mistakes are progress!
Generally, âtĂĄâ is more objective or not set in stone (adjectives, places). Famously in Irish, you are not sad but you have sadness on you - TĂĄ brĂłn orm - as feelings are temporary and not who we are.
The negative form of âtĂĄâ is ânĂâ and the negative form of âisâ is nĂl.
Grammar and Sentence Structure
The basic Irish sentence structure is VSO (Verb Subject Object) and English has a SVO structure. Verbs (actions/doing words) usually come first, then the subject (the doer of the action, e.g. me, you, them), and the object or place related to the action.
Irish also uses a VSP structure. The P is the predicate, which are adjectives/describing words, adverbs/descriptive actions, and prepositional phrases, that come after the subject object that the word is describing or providing information to. For example; TĂĄ SeĂĄn lĂĄidir - SeĂĄn is strong, BhĂ Niamh istigh - Niamh was inside.
A preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else. E.g. words like before - roimh, on - ar, under - faoi, inside - istigh, and over - thar.
Prepositional pronouns are a combination of prepositions (under, over, etc.) and pronouns (I, me, you), which makes âat me - agamâ and âat you - agatâ. However, to describe something with VSP you cannot use another noun with this structure (tĂĄ/bhĂ) as they canât be placed after the prepositional pronoun.
Verbal / perverbal particles change the intention of a sentence so they can make a sentence a question, negative, or negative question.
Some irregular verbs have dependent forms after verbal pronouns.
TĂĄ SeĂĄn lĂĄidir - SeĂĄn is strong, an bhfuil SeĂĄn lĂĄidir? - is SeĂĄn strong?, NĂĄ fuil SeĂĄn lĂĄidir? - isnât SeĂĄn strong?, nĂl SeĂĄn lĂĄidir - SeĂĄn isnât strong.
A more detailed sentence structure would be: preverbal particle (an, nĂ, nĂos) verb, subject, direct object or predicate adjective, indirect object, location descriptor, manner descriptor, time descriptor.
