Editorial policy

Governance & Language Council

Authority comes from people — native speakers, elders, teachers, linguists, and editors

Community proposals remain open on the interactive hub. Accepted forms follow a documented review path. Swifin acknowledges SIL/Webonary’s substantial published lexicon, Hedinger’s grammar and related literature, Glottolog catalogues, and community Bakossi cultural resources.

Review statuses

• Native verified — approved by identified native speakers / council process.
• Editorial verified — Swifin editorial or curated seed acceptance.
• Source attested — attested in an external published source (attribution retained).
• Engine inferred — heuristic or AI-assisted; never visually equivalent to verified entries.

Provenance

Every dictionary sense should record whether it originated from SIL/Webonary seed import, community submission, elder interview, or Swifin editorial work. Attribution strengthens authority.

Citations

Lexicon senses use persistent identifiers of the form SALEX:0000000. Example citation: Swifin Akoose Lexicon, SALEX:0001842, version 2026.08.

Council (forming)

This page will publicly list native speakers, elders, language teachers, linguists, and editors who govern terminology. Until the council roster is published, treat editorial_verified and source_attested as provisional relative to native review.