Interlinear glossing
Glossing guides
Short, practical guides to interlinear glossing: how to read one, the standard that shapes them,
the abbreviations, and how to gloss a constructed language. Each one ends where the editor begins.
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Interlinear gloss generator
Start hereWhat the tool does and how to build a gloss in four steps. Start here.
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How to read an interlinear gloss
The three lines, the small-capital labels, and the marks, for beginners.
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Leipzig Glossing Rules explained
The shared standard for morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, with an example for each rule.
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Glossing abbreviations cheat sheet
Case, person, tense, and the notation marks, each with a plain-language note.
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How to gloss your conlang
Leipzig-style glossing for an invented language, with custom scripts and fonts.
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Aligning vertical writing systems
Column layout for Japanese tategaki, Chinese, and Mongolian, and how a horizontal translation sits beside them.
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Agent skill for Claude and ChatGPT
Let your AI assistant build these diagrams from a plain request, on the same open API.