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  ============ freedict:swh-eng ============
  Swahili-English xFried/FreeDict Dictionary
  
  compiled by: Beata Wójtowicz, wierzchob at wp.pl
  corrected by: Beata Wójtowicz, wierzchob at wp.pl
  corrected by: Piotr Bański, bansp at o2.pl
  Maintainer: Piotr Bański
  
  Edition: 0.4.4
  Beata Wójtowicz: little lexical and technical fixes
  
  Size: 2675 headwords, 7399 tokens in definitions
  
  Publisher: FreeDict.
  
  
  Availability:
  
      Copyright (C) 1999-2010 by various authors listed below.
      Available under the terms of the GNU General Public License ver. 2.0 and
    any later version.
  
  ID# (svn): $Id$
  Publication date: 2 November 2010.
  Published at: http://freedict.org/
  
  Notes:
  
   * Database Status: small
  
  
  Source(s):
  
    This file in version 0.0.2 was compiled by Beata Wójtowicz from other
    electronic documents. It was based on "Swahili-Kiswahili to English
    Translation Program" by Morris Fried available from
    http://www.dict.org/links.html, which has been supplemented by entries
    from Freedict Swahili-English Dictionary (version 0.0.1) created by
    Horst Eyermann (http://www.freedict.de) from the Swahili-Esperanto and
    Esperanto-English Ergane dictionaries, available from
    http://www.travlang.com/. The December 2008 version (0.3), edited by
    Beata Wójtowicz and Piotr Bański, has been fixed syntactically, verified
    lexicographically and converted to the basic TEI P5 XML schema for
    dictionaries. The number of entries and the definitional parts have been
    extended. See the revisionDesc for subsequent changes.
  
  The Project:
  
    This dictionary comes to you through nice people making it available for
    free and for good. It is part of the FreeDict project,
    http://freedict.org/. This project aims to make available many
    translating dictionaries for free. Your contributions are welcome!
  
  Changelog:
  
   * 2010-11-02 Sebastian Humenda ver. 0.4.4:
     correct licencing stanza (thanks to Karl Bartel)
   * 2010-11-02 Piotr Bański, bansp at o2.pl ver. 0.4.4:
     * Small modifications in the header.
     * Changed the database name from swa-eng to swh-eng, for
       compatibility with ISO 639-3 and other resources.
   * 2009-12-30 #wierzchob #bansp ver. 0.4.3:
     * Little fixes in equivalents and one bug fix in the script
       generating definitions of plurals (mifugo was broken).
   * 2009-04-17 Piotr Bański, bansp at o2.pl ver. 0.4.2:
     * Technical changes vis-a-vis Freedict TEI-to-DICT scripts:
       looking for the balance between project-specific and Freedict-wide
       properties
  S
  ing and incremental building of
       Freedict dictionaries relies to some extent on bordering on tag
       abuse. Instead of distinguishing between  and  elements,
       I'd rather use more kinds of notes. Added:
  type="lbl" for notes within (definitional) notes - currently only labelling literal translations,@type="usage" for notes describing the usage of the given headword/sense.@type="dom" for crude characteristics of the domain of usage; includes hypernyms (date-fruit).@type="obj" for typical object (most of these values come straight from the Guidelines).   * Rule: all  elements that precede the given equivalent
       should be inside its  (for ease of transformation into c5 and
       CSS rendering only).
     * Things that should eventually get beautified/modified (while
       keeping an eye on the balance between project-"neutral" tools and
       project-specific demands:
  benki  (pl: mabenki) [sg=pl] - mark the lexical (class) ambiguity of the noun (or wait until class info is provided explicitly)in some contexts, some elements are rendered in c5 with a preceding blank line. This is due to legacy code that doesn't really harm, so I do not intend to fix that for now * 2009-03-15 #bansp #wierzchob ver. 0.4.1:
     * This is largely a maintenance release with minor fixes and
       additions.
     * New subcategories of locatives: unspec for "unspecified" (-ko),
       spec for "specified" (-po), in for "within" (-mo)
     * From editionStmt for version 0.4.1:
  Beata Wójtowicz: minor fixes and POS corrections, entries for -enye and the locative copulas;Piotr Bański: minor header changes wrt the updated FreeDict scripts, lexicographic consultation, minor fixes in equivalents. * 2009-02-15 #bansp #wierzchob ver. 0.4:
     * Fixed mistakes found in version 0.3.
     * Nouns of class 9 (the 'N class') are marked as 'type="N"' on
       their 
 element. This is used to signal that their plural forms
       (class 10) are identical to the respective singulars.
     * Plural forms added in all applicable cases and identified the
       sg=pl pairs (= class N). Plurals are essentially back-references to
       singulars (citing their content), although in some cases, a specific
       "plural" (collective, mass) meaning is also provided. Note that e.g.
       the information on benki as seen in the browser view ("benki [sg=pl]
       (pl: mabenki)") signals that benki is ambiguous between class 9 (no
       plural marking) and class 5 (plural in ma-).
     * Some classes of vocabulary added/expanded (e.g. names of
       countries and their inhabitants; the present-tense irregular paradigm
       of wa na added)
     * No more parentheses inside  elements, more types of notes:
  hint - the most general and genericgram - grammatical information (valency, POS of the equivalent, etc.)def - the real definition, it will become the  element in the next versioncl-agr - (abused) holds information on classes that the given element agrees with, used only for comma-separated lists of valueseditor - internal, hidden from usersnum - (abused, could be 'gram') holds information on the number of "you/your/yours" in English equivalents   * Many more references - types of  elements:
  cf - 'see also', genericsyn - points at synonymsimp-form - points at an (irregular) imperative form, could be made more generic ('inflection')infl-base - points at the stem from an inflected formplural-form - points at the plural from between  and plural-sense - points at the singular from inside    * Many POS and subcategorization changes; for example, 'expr' now
       indicates "portmanteau" (cumulative) grammatical words, some
       conjunctions and interjections have been identified
     * Changed/introduced some header elements for compatibility with
       the Freedict build system (indicated in comments)
     * The accompanying CSS stylesheet has been modified to provide a
       work view of the dictionary
     * 2612 entries, 2629 headwords, 5027 tokens in definitions,
       computed by sum(for $txt in //def | //sense/note[@type ne 'editor']
       return count(tokenize(normalize-space($txt),' ')))
     * Some of the development of this dictionary and the Freedict
       project has been described in a paper entitled "A repository of free
       lexical resources for African languages: the project and the method"
       by Piotr Bański and Beata Wójtowicz, accepted for the AfLaT-2009
       (Language Technologies for African Languages) workshop, part of the
       12th meeting of the European Association for Computational
       Linguistics (EACL).
     * TO DO:
  whatever is mentioned in the previous todo list and not done hereintroduce more robust grammatical description in , taking over the content of some  elements; split complex  elementsadd many more verbs and adjectives; add more cycles of function wordsadd explicit class information to nouns (this is what the cl-agr notes refer to)Add Freedict-specific notes on the last editor of the entry and the level of certainty.describe the markupadd usage examples (in the cit/quote system)consider using  (or even , for capitalization, see e.g. msahafu) within particular s, where appropriate.   * From editionStmt for version 0.4:
  Beata Wójtowicz: verification and correction of entries, addition of new entries (among others, complete sg-pl pairing)Piotr Bański: more explicit XML structure, lexicographic consultation, fixes/additions, mostly in the English part * 2008-12-30 #bansp #wierzchob ver. 0.3:
     * Redesign of the scheme for this dictionary (with focus on the
       microstructure).
     * Setting the foundation for the subcategorisation of parts of
       speech -- currently used for pronouns (cf. ake or hawa) and causative
       verbs only.
     * Partial introduction of singular-plural pairings (coded as a
       reference system, cf. fanikio vs. mafanikio).
     * Irregular plurals are indicated, cf. jambo.
     * Some other irregular inflections are also marked cf. njoo or
       hakuna.
     * Added cross-entry references. Currently restricted to synonyms
       and the generalized "see also".
     * Organized (sub)senses better.
     * Added usage notes. Currently restricted to note/@type="hint"
       (and abused in imperative forms of verbs), pending the switch from
       the  system to the cit/quote system of the later stage of TEI
       P5. (Note that the CSS also supports  elements without the
       @type attribute - these are reserved for internal use and are removed
       from the final version or turned into XML comments).
     * Equivalents are still listed in  elements (some of them
       separated by commas and with extra information in brackets, cf.
       chako). This is inherited from the earlier versions and will be
       changed in the next one.
     * Eliminated entries for 'prepositional' phrases in -a -- their
       meanings can be regularly constructed from the relevant nouns.
       Eliminated double entries. Fixed malformed entries.
     * The number of headwords increased from 1542 (including double
       entries and 'prepositional' phrases in -a) in version 0.0.2 to 2060
       (count(//orth)) in version 0.3.
     * The number of tokens in the definitional parts of entries,
       computed by sum(for $txt in //def | //note[@type='hint'] return
       count(tokenize(normalize-space($txt),' '))), increased from 2143 in
       version 0.0.2 to 4139 in version 0.3.
     * Created and added a CSS stylesheet (linked by a processing
       instruction) to make maintenance and review easier.
     * Expanded the header to provide more information and the change
       log.
     * Added a DTD and a Relax NG schema, both derived from a TEI P5
       ODD for with the Dictionaries module (attached).
     * Bumped the version number up by one decimal point (this is no
       longer an alpha release), to 0.3.
     * Some of the goals of the next version must be
  better machine-readability (the cit/quote system with no commas or parentheses in the equivalents)complete singular-plural pairingirregular inflections should be handled better, and cross-referenced to a greater extentmore spelling variants should be capturedpossibly, more thorough subcategorizationthe distinction between free (e.g. wangu) and bound (e.g. -angu) elements should be markeda thorough overview and disambiguation of senses by means of usage notes or further equivalentspossibly, more cross-entry references should be provided   * From editionStmt for version 0.3:
  Beata Wójtowicz: verification and correction of entries, addition of new entriesPiotr Bański: conversion to TEI P5, more explicit XML structure, more detailed teiHeader, lexicographic consultation * 2004-06-24 Beata Wójtowicz, wierzchob at wp.pl ver. 0.0.2:
     * Created version 0.0.2. on the basis of "Swahili-Kiswahili to
       English Translation Program" by Morris D. Fried.
     * It was supplemented with entries selected from version 0.0.1 by
       Horst Eyermann (who concatenated the Ergane Swahili-Esperanto and
       Esperanto-English dictionaries in 2000).
     * POS information was added to the entries that came from 0.0.1
       Repetitions in the sense part were eliminated.
     * The dictionary was marked up in TEI P4.