new thing: conglossor

sometimes, people post text in some conlang. even if i have a vague understanding of the grammar of that conlang, if i'm not fluent i would have to look every word up in the dictionary in order to understand the text's meaning. this gets tedious quite quickly, but what if we used computers to help us?

to this end i have created conglossor. you can paste in some text in a conlang of your choice, and the dictionary definition of each word will then be presented to you on mouse-over.

currently supported languages are sanila and vötgil. i plan to hopefully add support for more languages in the near future. toki pona should be easy enough as long as i can get a dictionary in a usable format; myojanu will be a fun challenge because its morphology is actually slightly ambiguous; limkwanek won't be hard once that is more fully developed; and of course other conlangs exist also.

also, it might be possible to connect this to wiktionary, which would mean it could work with many natural ("real") languages as well. having worked with mediawiki before i know this might be difficult, since i don't think any of the dictionary data there is actually stored in a machine-readable way, but i will take a closer look at this eventually.

the source code is available, if you want to look at that.