The Morphological Core of Dungan: A Two-Dialect Finite-State Model and a Multi-Genre Evaluation

arXiv:2607.28766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dungan, a Sinitic language of Central Asia written in a Cyrillic-based script, is described in detail in the grammatical literature, yet the quantitative properties of its morphology in actual usage have, to the best of our knowledge, never been measured systematically. This paper uses a finite-state morphological analyzer as a measuring instrument. Implemented with HFST and covering both dialect groups (the Gansu variety, which is the literary sta...