MansurTruth/Jukun-Translator

# Jukun Translator An offline dictionary, phrasebook and grammar primer for **Jukun (Wukari dialect)**, with glosses in English, French, Hausa, Fulfulde and Kanuri. Built with Expo + React Native + TypeScript. No network calls, no backend, no accounts — the whole corpus ships inside the bundle. ```bash npm install npm start # then scan the QR code with Expo Go npm run android # or ios / web npm test # typecheck + data integrity + 30 engine tests ``` --- ## Read this before trusting a translation ### Where the Jukun comes from Two sources, deliberately kept apart. **1. Meek 1931** — 182 headwords, all 38 proverbs, the greeting system and the whole grammar section. Every phonetic transcription in the app comes from here: > C. K. Meek, *A Sudanese Kingdom: An Ethnographical Study of the Jukun-Speaking Peoples of > Nigeria*. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1931. Specifically: | Source | Pages | What it gave | | --- | --- | --- | | Appendix I, "The Wukari Dialect" | 499–505 | 176 of the 182 headwords, and the sentence schedules | | Appendices II–VIII | 506–535 | the seven other dialect schedules (comparison table only) | | Ch. I, "Linguistics" | 11–14 | tone, duplex stems, split verbs, concord, the absent passive (+2 headwords) | | Ch. XI, "The Aesthetic Life" | 464–467 | the 38 proverbs (+4 headwords) | | Ch. XI, "Greetings and Etiquette" | 492–494 | the greeting system | **2. The Wapan wordlist** — a modern Wapan (Wukari Jukun) glossary of 34 entries and 22 parallel sentences, from `Documents/Jukun_English_Glossary.csv` and `Documents/Jukun_English_Parallel.tsv.csv`. It contributes 22 new headwords and 22 sentences. The two are not merged into each other, because their spellings are ninety years apart — `jape` beside Meek's `ajape`, `sansan` beside his `sasa`. Where they *agree*, the modern spelling was folded into the Meek entry as a variant rather than made a duplicate, so `jape`, `sansan`, `abaa` and `anwu` all resolve t …