Hi - it looks like Michael Bauer introduced me in the Scottish Gaelic thread.
I'd like to create a version for Irish. I created the open source Irish spellchecker "GaelSpell" so I have quality word list with good coverage, ready to use.
There is an "official" tile set, described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_le...ributions#Irish
I'm inclined to try the digraph approach that Michael is using for Scottish though. Processing my word list this way, yields the following character frequencies:
A 338240
I 260387
R 162701
N 151440
L 121075
E 120140
O 116712
Í 109779
S 102242
T 91160
D 75868
Ċ 73325
M 69310
C 62305
Á 61244
G 58405
F 46855
Ṫ 41950
Ó 37388
Ḃ 32064
U 31698
Ḋ 31298
Ṁ 29715
B 26442
Ú 24377
Ġ 24179
É 23497
P 19668
Ṡ 12369
Ḟ 12124
H 11051
Ṗ 6530
Any advice of tile distributions/point would be appreciated; I've never played seriously in Irish, only English.
Taking the diagraph approach, "H" becomes a bit of a special case - most words in Irish that start with a vowel permit free addition of an H at the beginning. This makes it a bit boring for Scrabble play, so I'm inclined to just drop H entirely.
Also, I've translated about 90% of the .lang file. Shall I email that to the devs directly when it's complete?
Thanks
Kevin