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About
Garifuna (Garífuna, cab) is an Arawakan language spoken in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua. UNESCO proclaimed Garifuna language, dance and music a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2001 - and the language is endangered: fewer children learn it with every generation. This tool builds Garifuna sentences from Ruben Reyes's Garifuna Trilingual Dictionary (2012) and the grammar patterns in the Garifuna New Testament, composed by an AI model. It makes mistakes - the confidence badge says how sure it is, the "literally" line shows exactly what it produced, and every correction from a speaker becomes training data for the next version.
Sources
- Ruben Reyes, Garifuna Trilingual Dictionary (Garifuna - English - Spanish), 2012.
- Lerérun Búngiu To Lánina Iséri Darádu, the Garifuna New Testament, © 2012 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., via eBible.org, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Verses are used as examples of real Garifuna inside the translator; they are not displayed or redistributed.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Garifuna (OHCHR).
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