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While creating an English thesaurus for Bolivian Quechua speakers seems simple enough, it can be tricky. What's the problem? Translations do not always follow strict transitivity. Normally, if a=b and b=c, then c=a. This is not necessarily true in linguistics when b is an English word that has more than one part of speech. For example, "test" is a verb, noun and adjective. What is the correct English synonym for "a" (in Bolivian Quechua) when "b" (in English) has synonyms ("c") having many parts of speech? Furthermore, what if "a" (in Bolivian Quechua) is ambiguous and has several translations into English ("b")? This thesaurus embraces this ambiguity by giving as much information to the reader as possible. This was accomplished in two phases. In the first phase, maximum-likelihood English translations of the Bolivian Quechua subject words are given. For all the languages covered in Webster's Online Dictionary translations are determined using rather massive content analyses of translations from various sources including translations of United Nations documents, translations of the Holy Bible (and similar sources), training manuals, popular works, and academic sources. An English translation having the highest probability of being used is reported first, then the second most probable is reported second, and so on. In the second phase, English synonyms for all parts of speech, including those not related to the original Bolivian Quechua subject, are given for each English translation generated by the first phase. If an English entry is most used as a certain part of speech (estimated based on an English language corpus), then English synonyms for that part of speech are listed first. This indicates to the speaker of Bolivian Quechua how the English subject word is most used. Other parts of speech are listed based on their frequency of usage in English. Within each part of speech, synonyms most likely to be used in English are listed first. Readers who seek further information on any of the words in this book, including translations to other world languages, can freely refer to Webster's Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

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PublisherIcon Group International, Incorporated

ISBN-100497834464

ISBN-139780497834463

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Publication Year2008

TopicNative American Languages

Book TitleWebster's Bolivian Quechua-English Thesaurus Dictionary

LanguageEnglish

GenreForeign Language Study

AuthorInc. Staff Icon Group International

FormatCompact Disc / Ringbound

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Intended AudienceTrade

Compiled byIcon Group International, Inc. Staff

Table of ContentBolivian Quechua to English Thesaurus 1A 1B 4C 4D 8E 9F 9G 10H 10I 10J 11K 13L 17M 19N 22Ntilde; 22O 23P 23Q 27R 30S 31T 34U 36W 37Y 40Index of English Subjects to Bolivian Quechua Subjects 43A 43B 43C 44D 44E 45F 45G 46H 46I 47J 47K 47L 47M 47N 48O 48P 48Q 49R 49S 49T 50U 51V 51W 51Y 51Vocabulary Study Lists 53Verbs (Bolivian Quechua - English) 53Verbs (English - Bolivian Quechua) 53Nouns (Bolivian Quechua - English) 53Nouns (English - Bolivian Quechua) 55Adverbs (Bolivian Quechua - English) 57Adverbs (English - Bolivian Quechua) 57Adjectives (Bolivian Quechua - English) 57Adjectives (English - Bolivian Quechua) 58Index 59

Number of Pages124 Pages