TLA Flexcodes API

The BTS flexcodes are a system of numeric codes used to identify morphological (and partially syntactical) information in the Berlin Text System.

Please find information on the flexcode system here:

• Cheatsheet - Berlin Text System (BTS): Inflection, Daniel A. Werning, v1.1, 1/17/2024, https://nubes.bbaw.de/s/sdQK6JQeNF6gWKr. 
• Berlin Text System 3.1 User Manual: Editorial Software of the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae Project, Maxim Kupreyev & Gunnar Sperveslage, in collaboration with Peter Dils, Silke Grallert, Ingelore Hafemann, Sebastian Hoedt, Jakob Höper, Joanna M. Hypszer, Ines Köhler, Lutz Popko, Simon D. Schweitzer & Doris Topmann, BTS User Manual v3, Berlin 2018, https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4-opus4-40291, pp. 107–121.

For abbreviations that occur in the flexcodes strings, see: https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/listings/bts-glossings.

Endpoints

Basic URL

api.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/flexcodes/bts

Browse

• GET /flexcodes/bts/all – List of all BTS flexcodes (JSON object)
• GET /flexcodes/bts/{id} – String corresponding to a given flexcode (TXT)

To use the API in MS Excel / Libre Office Calc try the folloing sniplets 

Examples 

Getting a label for a given flexcode 

EN =IFERROR(WEBSERVICE("https://api.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/flexcodes/bts/10381");"Error: server unreachable.")
DE =WENNFEHLER(WEBDIENST("https://api.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/flexcodes/bts/10381");"Fehler: Server nicht erreichbar.")

Result: “SC.n.act.ngem.1sg” (txt).

Refer to the API as:

AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin Text System Flexcodes API, api.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/flexcodes/bts/, Corpus edition 20, 2026, implemented by R. Dominik Blöse, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter and Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (accessed: ____).