Cebuano-Syllable-Decoder

Description

• Cebuano Syllable Decoder / Cebuano Syllabification / Bisaya Syllabication
• Accepts a Cebuano word and breaks it down into syllables

Installation

• pip install cebsyldec or
• inside the folder run python setup.py install

Requirements

• python>=3.7

Functions

• get_syllables(word)
  • Accepts a Cebuano word and returns the syllables of the word, and the sequence of Consonants and Vowels
  • Default Output: List of syllables and Sequence of Consonants and Vowels
  • Ex.

       syllabledecoder.get_syllables("tinabangay")   
       [['ti', 'na', 'ba', 'ngay'], ['CV', 'CV', 'CV', 'CVC']]
    

       syllabledecoder.get_syllables("mag-tinabangay") 
       [['mag', 'ti', 'na', 'ba', 'ngay'], ['CVC', 'CV', 'CV', 'CV', 'CVC']]      
    

How to Use

from cebsyldec import syllabledecoder

syllabledecoder.get_syllables("mangaon")        

Output: [['ma', 'nga', 'on'], ['CV', 'CV', 'VC']]

References

• M. V. R. Bunye and E. P. Yap, Cebuano Grammar Notes. University of Hawai‘i Press, 1971. [Online]. Available: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/75449514-a5eb-487a-aa6b-7778680179e8/content
• Computational Linguistics @ Illinois. Syllable Script in Python, 2017. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZULS0evRLHg