TEITOK visualization and search interface for Beja

Language name	Beja	beja1238
Language family	Afro-Asiatic	afro1255
Corpus creator	Vanhove, Martine
Translations provided	English
Glosses	all
Annotation file licence	CC BY-NC

This is an interface for visualizing and searching the Beja DoReCo dataset. For more information about this dataset, including metadata, consult the DoReCo dataset page, where you can also download the data. Use the links in the left-side menu to search through this dataset, or to access individual documents for visualization.

When using actual data from the Beja DoReCo dataset in publications please cite

Vanhove, Martine. 2024. Beja DoReCo dataset. In Seifart, Frank, Ludger Paschen and Matthew Stave (eds.). Language Documentation Reference Corpus (DoReCo) 2.0. Lyon: Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (UMR5596, CNRS & Université Lyon 2). https://doreco.huma-num.fr/languages/beja1238 (Accessed on 23/01/2026). DOI:10.34847/nkl.6eaf5laq

When using results obtained from DoReCo's TEITOK version in publications, such as frequency counts obtained through the TEITOK search function, please cite — in addition to the reference to the Bora DoReCo dataset:

Janssen, Maarten & Frank Seifart. 2025. Searchable Language Documentation Corpora: DoReCo meets TEITOK. In: Éric Le Ferrand, Elena Klyachko, Anna Postnikova, Tatiana Shavrina, Oleg Serikov, Ekaterina Voloshina & Ekaterina Vylomova (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics, 58–64. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.fieldmatters-1.5/.

Gloss Abbreviations

Below is the list of language-specific glosses used in the Beja corpus:

Gloss	LGR	Meaning
1	1	first person
2	2	second person
3	3	third person
ABL	ABL	ablative
ABST	none	abstract suffix
ACC	ACC	accusative
ACMP	none	perfective
ADJ	ADJ	adjective
ADJVZ	none	adjectivizer
ADJZ	none	adjectivizer
ADJZR	none	adjectivizer
ADRE	none	addressee
ADRF	none	form of address
ADVS	none	adversative
ANT	none	anterior
AOR	none	aorist
ATTENU	none	(unclear)
AUG	none	augmentative
CAUS	CAUS	causative
circ	none	circumfix
CMPR	none	comparative
COLL	none	(unclear)
COM	COM	comitative
CONTR	none	contrastive
COORD	none	coordinative
COP	COP	copula
CSL	none	causal
CVB	none	converb
DAT	DAT	dative
DBL	none	double
DEF	DEF	definite
DIM	none	diminuitive
DIR	none	directional
DIST	DIST	distal
DISTR	DISTR	distributive
DM	none	discourse marker
EMPH	none	emphatic
EXCM	none	exclamation
F	F	female
FS	none	false start
FUTL	FUT	future
GEN	GEN	genitive
GNRL	none	general
HESIT	none	hesitation
IMP	IMP	imperative
INDF	INDF	indefinite
INT	none	intensive
INTJ	none	interjection
IPFV	IPFV	imperfective
L	none	linker
LINK	none	linker
LOC	LOC	locative
M	M	masculine
MID	none	middle
MNR	none	manner
MOY	none	middle
N.AC	none	action noun
N.AGN	none	agent noun
NEG	NEG	negation
NML	none	(unclear)
NMLZ	NMLZ	nominalizer
NOM	NOM	nominative
NREG	none	(unclear)
OBJ	OBJ	object
OPT	none	optative
ORD	none	ordinal
PASS	PASS	passive
PFV	PFV	perfective
PL	PL	plural
PLAC	none	pluractional
PLC	none	(unclear)
POSS	POSS	possessive
POT	none	potential
PROH	PROH	prohibitive
PROX	PROX	proximal
RCPT	none	recipient
RECP	RECP	reciprocal
REFL	REFL	reflexive
REL	none	relative clitic marker
SEQ	none	sequential
SG	SG	singular
SIMIL	none	similative
SING	none	singulative
SMLT	none	simultaneity
VBLZ	VBLZ	verbalizer
VN	none	verbonominal
VOC	VOC	vocative