Corrections and updates
Languages with little written material get things wrong in public and fix them in public. This page records every substantive correction to the guides, the phrasebook and the translator, newest first.
How corrections happen
Most corrections start with a speaker. A fix to a single translation arrives through the Improve button or the contribute form and takes effect immediately for that input. A fix that changes what a guide says (a wrong phrase, a misdescribed rule, a usage that is not how people actually talk) is made to the page itself, recorded here, and reflected in the "Updated" date at the top of the page.
If you have found something wrong, email hello@mynimalistic.com with the page address, or use the contribute form.
Log
26 September 2026: Everyday phrases for Rongmei and Phom
The Rongmei beta translated from single words only, taken from a 1967 word list. It now also draws on about 380 everyday sentences from Rev. G. Gangmei's phrasebook Inter-Language Translation (2013), which covers greetings, travel, shopping and illness in modern Ruangmei spelling. The Phom beta, built mostly from Bible verses, now also draws on 83 basic words and conversational sentences. The Rongmei guide gained an everyday-phrases section and a note on how the spelling marks tone.
26 September 2026: Nagamese greetings corrected
Several pages, the phrasebook and the translator gave mainland-Indian greeting formulas as Nagamese: Suprovat for "good morning", Shubh ratri for "good night", Dhanyabad for "thank you", and the translator and NagaChat could answer "hello" with Namaste or Namaskar. None of these is how people greet each other in Nagaland. In Nagamese the greetings are the English words (Hello, Good morning, Good night, Thank you), and a common local greeting is Bhaat khaishe?, "Have you eaten?".
- Pages corrected: greetings, 80 Nagamese phrases, the Nagamese guide, Nagamese grammar, Nagamese vs Assamese, the Hornbill Festival guide and the phrasebook.
Bhaat khaishe?and its reply were added. - Translator and NagaChat: bare greetings now always return the Nagamese usage, and both are instructed never to produce the mainland forms.
- Dataset: 29 Nagamese entries that used these forms as greetings or thanks were corrected, and 2 that could not be fixed safely (a garbled literal "you are welcome" and a reply built on the Hindi
swagat) were removed.
26 September 2026: Nagamese vocabulary checked against real usage
Several everyday words in the guides were checked against two independent bodies of human-written Nagamese: about 600 paragraphs of news from Nagamese Khobor and the 2019 Nagamese New Testament. Where both disagreed with what the guides said, the guides were changed:
| Meaning | Was | Now | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| but | lekin / hoile bi | kintu | kintu 17 times in the news sample and 1,918 in the New Testament; lekin 0 and 0 |
| now | itiya | etiya | etiya 14 and 423; itiya 0 and 0 |
| how much, how many | kimaan | kiman | kiman 103 in the New Testament; kimaan 0 in either |
| when? (question) | kun time te | kitia | kitia 9 and 223; kun on its own means "who" |
| I will go | Moi jawo | Moi jabo | jabo 5 and 335; jawo 0 and 0 |
| because | karon | karone | karone 33 and 687; karon 5 and 0 |
Pages corrected: the Nagamese guide, Nagamese grammar, 80 Nagamese phrases, counting, Nagamese vs Assamese, the Hornbill Festival guide and the phrasebook. The translator's grammar reference and its example data were corrected the same way, and the translator now also rewrites the Assamese forms mor, tumar and aami ("my", "your", "I") to their Nagamese equivalents if the language model produces them.
26 September 2026: Guides for Angami, Tangkhul, Rongmei and Phom
Short guides to the four beta languages: Angami (Tenyidie), Tangkhul, Rongmei and Phom. Each fact on them is taken from the sources listed at the bottom of the page, and each example phrase from the translator's own data with its source named. The Angami translator also gained about 240 example sentences from R. B. McCabe's public-domain Outline Grammar of the Angami Naga Language (1887) and a public phrase list.
26 September 2026: Rongmei and Phom in beta; contributions put to use
- Rongmei and Phom join the translator as beta languages, built from publicly available word lists and, for Phom, short parallel sentences. Contributions are open for 15 more Naga languages (Lotha, Konyak, Chang, Sangtam, Yimkhiung, Khiamniungan, Pochury, Rengma, Zeliang, Chakhesang, Zeme, Liangmai, Mao, Poumai and Maram) on the contribute page.
- Your corrections now count for longer. Until today, a correction reached the translator in two ways: as the exact answer for exactly that sentence, and as one of the 10 most recent corrections shown to it, so after ten newer ones it only helped exact repeats. Now every stored correction and contribution is searched for each translation, and the ones relevant to your sentence are used.
26 September 2026: Angami (Tenyidie) and Tangkhul in beta
The translator now offers Angami (Tenyidie) and Tangkhul as beta languages, built from publicly available data: about 5,900 everyday English–Tangkhul sentence pairs and word lists of roughly 950 words for each language. That is far less than the other languages have, so both are marked beta and their output is experimental. Phrases from speakers on the contribute page go live for them immediately. Lotha stays in collection.
26 September 2026: Collecting Angami, Lotha and Tangkhul
Speakers can now add Angami, Lotha and Tangkhul phrases on the contribute page, which shows how many have been collected so far. These languages are not in the translator: almost no text in them is available to learn from, and a translator built without it would be guessing. Every contribution in every language is now also kept in a permanent archive; until today, only the most recent 50 per language were kept as a list.
26 September 2026: Ao negation corrected
Ao negates a verb with a prefix whose vowel copies the verb's: metet "know" → memetet, jembi "speak" → mejembi, meimer "love" → memeimer. The guides gave majembi for "does not speak" and the translator used mameimer, neither of which occurs in written Ao; mejembi does (as in Hindi mejembiba region, "a non-Hindi-speaking region"). "I don't speak Ao" is now Ni Ao oshi mejembi throughout, and 42 Ao sentences from Tatoeba were added to the translator's examples.
26 September 2026: Ao verb forms checked against the Ao press
The Ao guides and the translator's Ao reference were checked against 20 issues of Tir Yimyim, the Ao-language daily from Mokokchung: about 180,000 words of current written Ao. Forms that do not occur there at all were replaced with the ones that do:
| Meaning | Was | Now | In Tir Yimyim |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | aao | ao, aor "is going" | ao 176, aor 70; aao 0 |
| drink | achema | ajem, ajemer "drinks" | the phrase set itself uses ajemer; achema 0 |
| sleep | machang | mejang, mejanger "is sleeping" | machang 0 |
| will (future) | -chü, -cu | -tsü | aotsü 116, arutsü 62; -chü 0 |
| present / ongoing | -taki | -er / -ar | aor 70, inyaker 95; -taki 1 |
48 Ao phrase pairs built on forms that never occur in the Ao press (tshee, gu, mugu, kheje, liear and others) were taken out of the translator's examples and set aside for a speaker to review. Some may be another Ao dialect, such as Mongsen, rather than errors. Pages corrected: the Ao guide, Ao grammar and the phrasebook.
26 September 2026: Translation data cleaned
- Nagamese: about 1,200 sentence pairs had been cut in the wrong place when the dataset was assembled, so each carried the first words of the next sentence. They were rejoined; 134 fragments whose translation had been lost, 40 pairs with the two languages swapped, 12 entries that were Assamese rather than Nagamese, and several hundred misaligned pairs were removed or fixed.
- Ao and Sümi: long passages of grammar-book text, publisher front matter and pasted chatbot replies were separated from the phrase pairs, and about 800 phrase pairs that were buried inside those passages were recovered (Sümi went from 80 usable pairs to 811).
- Example selection: the translator now picks the examples that together cover the most words of your sentence, and matches spelling variants (
bisi/bishi,kurise/kurishey) as the same word.
26 September 2026: Phrasebook and page notes
- The phrasebook now shows all three languages together by default, with the language buttons acting as filters.
- The sourcing note at the top of each guide was rewritten to say plainly where its phrases and grammar come from, and to link to this log.
- The privacy policy was updated: advertising on this site is provided by Google AdSense.
30 August 2026: Corrections now stick
A correction submitted through the Improve button used to be passed to the translation model only as a suggestion, so translating the same text again could reproduce the mistake that had just been fixed. Corrections are now stored against the exact input and served directly on every later request, on the website and in the Android app. The translator also stacks its two panes on narrow phone screens instead of squeezing them side by side.
7 August 2026: Written guides published
The language guides and grammar references for Nagamese, Ao (Chungli) and Sema (Sümi), the comparative guides under Learn, the Nagaland pages, and the method, about and legal pages.
27 June 2026: nagatranslate.in
The translator moved to its own address, nagatranslate.in.