kambabench/docs/ORTHOGRAPHY.md

Kamba orthography and normalization

Status: not yet written. Roadmap item v0.1 requires examining real transcripts from the candidate corpora first; the normalization rules themselves are v0.2+ work and must involve native Kamba speakers before anything beyond normalize.py v0.1's language-agnostic base layer is implemented.

This document will hold, once that work happens:

• the linguistic justification for any spelling variants the normalizer treats as equivalent (the kind of citation-backed reasoning a normalizer needs — not rules invented without native- speaker or literature support),
• documented accepted spelling variants and how they were identified,
• the relationship between this document and normalize.py's NORMALIZATION_CHANGELOG, so every normalization version is traceable to the linguistic reasoning behind it, and
• open questions about dialect-specific spelling differences, if any are found.

See kambabench/scoring/normalize.py for the current (v0.1, base-only) implementation.