Preliminary investigation of a morphological analyzer and generator for Khasi

Khasi is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken by a small tribal community residing in the state of Meghalaya in the North Eastern region of India. Khasi is mostly analytic and partly agglutinating language and its word order is primarily SVO. The language has limited inflectional morphology but exhibits derivational morphology by using prefixes and less common is the use of suffixes and infixes. In this paper an attempt is made to perform morphological analysis and generation for Khasi based on Kimmo-two level model for morphological analysis. A limited Khasi morphological analyzer is developed using Foma (Mans Hulden finite state compiler and library) and the preliminary results of the analyzer are shown here.