Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Malayalam

language, modern language, natural language
Subclass of	Malayalam, Dravidian
Native label	മലയാളം
Country	India
Indigenous to	Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu
Linguistic typology	subject–object–verb, agglutinative language
Writing system	Malayalam script, Arabi Malayalam script
Ethnologue language status	2 Provincial
Related category	Category:Malayalam pronunciation
Wikimedia language code	ml

This page is a Task Force page for Malayalam language under WikiProject Wikidata:Lexicographical data, intended for coordinating contributions to Malayalam lexeme content and related discussions. WikiProject Kerala is the related Wikiproject that covers all Malayalam topics.

Malayalam (Q36236) is a Dravidian language primarily spoken in Indian state of Kerala and Union Territory of Lakshadweep by over 34 million people. It is an agglutinative language that mainly follows a subject–object–verb order. Malayalam is a focus language of the lexicographical data project.

Wikidata:Lexemes aims to provide a CC0 licensed structured lexicographical data for everyone to use for different purposes, including for Wiktionary and the upcoming Abstract Wikipedia.

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To-do Etherpad page for ml Add senses to all existing lexemes Add translations to and from senses of different languages Fix errors that got added to the current Malayalam lexicographical data Add most frequent missing forms Add images, synonyms, antonyms, items for this sense, and other properties for the senses.
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Example lexeme entries edit

Some example lexeme entries of Malayalam language are given below. These may be used as models to improve other lexeme entries.

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Scope edit

Wikidata Lexemes Malayalam

Maintain common Malayalam lexemes, add all of the forms (inflections) and senses to their entries.
Add images, translations, synonyms, antonyms and audios for senses: sense properties by usage
Maintenance of Malayalam labels of 90 million Qitems
Improve linguistic content about Malayalam language across all the Wikimedia sister projects

Documentation edit

Statistics edit

See also: WD:Lexicographical data/Statistics

Malayalam language is currently the 4th top language by lexeme count added to Wikidata!
ml lexemes statistics by category
The lexeme forms coverage chart is given below. These statistics use corpus data from the Leipzig Corpora Collection.

Forms in Wikidata: 748,786
Forms in Wikipedia: 28,789
Tokens: 1,992,352
Covered forms: 8,837 (30.7%)
Missing forms: 19,952 (69.3%)
Covered tokens: 1,074,456 (53.9%)
Missing tokens: 917,896 (46.1%)
Most frequent missing forms

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Maintenance edit

Wikidata Queries edit

See: Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Malayalam/Queries

Resources edit

See: Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Malayalam/Resources

Continued at Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation/Languages/ml