Quettali Extra

The core of quettali is a word inflection engine: it has a hard-coded knowledge of Quenya lexical elements like its alphabet and sound clusters, its list of cases tenses, and word catgories. It has a pre-compiled set of configuration files to generate the inflected forms of a word for case, number and tense as a model, lists of rules for figuring out how to determine the right model for a word, and how to turn text into tengwar to display Quenya. Quettali also ships with a set of dictionary files, and if you run this program locally, you can easily add your own.

To make it easier to view, explore, study and play with the language, quettali has accumulated a bunch of extra features, in various stages of completion, levels of quality, and measures of usefulness. This page covers some of the features that are works in progress, or for some other reason not part of the general theme yet. Some of these will only be linked from the basic vesta theme, for that reason, and may be only be for testing and development.

General

• Font test — Sample text for the installed tengwar fonts.
• Notes — Project notes, open issues, to-do items.

Reference

• Noun model look-up chart — Flowchart for declension selection. This is a visual representation of the “conf/nmlookup.csv” file. The left and right boxes are links to “nouns with this rule” and “nouns with this model” pages respectively. Clicking on the “rule” link in a noun declension page leads you here. Unthemed.
• Verb model look-up chart — Flowchart for conjugation selection. This is a visual representation of the “conf/vmlookup.csv” file. The left and right boxes are links to “verbs with this rule” and “verbs with this model” pages respectively. Clicking on the “rule” link in a verb conjugation page leads you here. Unthemed.
• PE roots — Proto-Eldarin roots and words based on them. Lacks a description of the root meaning; this is just a cross-reference for roots mentioned in the dictionary entries as “root=xxx” in the flags field. The “/root?root=xxx” pages provide lemma links for a specfic root; the single “/roots” page links to all the “/root” pages. Note: The current dictionaries only include the roots for a small subset of all words, even though the original eldamo source is much more complete.
• Unused words list — Words that are not used in any of the sample texts, excluding personal names. Basically, the subset of the Quenya words page that does not have a pilcrow (¶) mark.
• Full sample list — Flattened sample text index. These are all of the individual sample pages in block-ID order, corresponding to their inclusion order from the “text/collection.txt” file. The normal “/texts” page only lists the top-level sample pages.
• Links to Eldamo — Full list of external word links, all to eldamo.org. Unthemed.
• File noun-q.xlsx — Spreadsheet of Quenya nouns. Downloadable file, generated in Excel format.
• File noun-nq.xlsx — Spreadsheet of (Neo-)Quenya nouns. Downloadable file, generated in Excel format.
• File noun-m.xlsx — Spreadsheet of (Neo-/Middle-)Quenya nouns. Downloadable file, generated in Excel format.
• File noun-eq.xlsx — Spreadsheet of (Neo-/Middle-/Early-)Quenya nouns. Downloadable file, generated in Excel format.
• File verb-q.xlsx — Spreadsheet of Quenya verbs. Downloadable file, generated in Excel format.
• File verb-nq.xlsx — Spreadsheet of (Neo-)Quenya verbs. Downloadable file, generated in Excel format.
• File verb-mq.xlsx — Spreadsheet of (Neo-/Middle-)Quenya verbs. Downloadable file, generated in Excel format.
• File verb-eq.xlsx — Spreadsheet of (Neo-/Middle-/Early-)Quenya verbs. Downloadable file, generated in Excel format.

Analysis

• Forms analysis — Quenya derivational froms analysis. Heavy initial load on server (may cause timeout on first call).