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We are going to use the hunspell format for Quechua spell-checking since it is format used by OpenOffice, Mozilla and any program like AbiWord which uses Enchant for its spell-checking interface.  Unlike ispell, aspell, and the old myspell, hunspell is designed for agglutinative languages with a number of special options for constructing compound words and two levels of suffixes.  Nonetheless, it will still be a technical challenge to implement spell-checking for Quechua.  We will probably have to write a special program called formafx to create all the combinations of suffixes and verbal infixes in hunspell format.  In addition, we would like to get a "sounds like" feature added to hunspell because the glotalized and aspirated consonants are so confusable and often mispelled in the Spanish alphabet.

Then read these instructions for converting from ispell to myspell (or in Spanish). Hunspell is a modified version of the myspell format.  It may also help to read the Aspell documentation since it uses a format very similar to myspell.  

Once you understand how spell-checking formats work generally, then read the man pages for hunspell, which is a significantly more complicated format.  If you can either read them at the hunspell sourceforge website or with the man command:
       man 1 hunspell
       man 4 hunspell

Here is a rough Spanish translation of the hunspell man 4 page and README file. 

In addition, read this letter explaining how we are going to implement Quechua spell-checking in Hunspell. Here is a spanish translation of the letter.

Last Updated: Tue, 16 Aug 2011