crk-orthography 0.20180724.0

Convert between Plains Cree SRO and syllabics

Plains Cree Orthography

Convert between nêhiyawêwin/ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ (Plains Cree Y-dialect) Standard Roman Orthography (SRO) and Canadian Aboriginal syllabics!

Install

pip install crk_orthography

Usage

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As a Python module

Convert SRO to syllabics:

>>> from crk_orthography import sro2syllabics
>>> sro2syllabics('nêhiyawêwin')
'ᓀᐦᔭᐍᐏᐣ'
>>> sro2syllabics('write nêhiyawêwin')
'write ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ'

Convert syllabics to SRO:

>>> from crk_orthography import syllabics2sro
>>> syllabics2sro('ᐊᒋᒧᓯᐢ')
'acimosis'
>>> syllabics2sro(' → ᒪᐢᑫᑯᓯᕽ  ᑎᕒᐁᕀᓬ ')
' → maskêkosihk  tireyl '

On the command line

Once installed as a Python module, you can invoke its command line mode by writing python3 -m crk_orthography. When invoked this way, it converts each line of input from SRO to syllabics.

$ echo "minôs" | python3 -m crk_orthography
ᒥᓅᐢ

See also

nêhiyawêwin syllabics

License

Copyright (C) 2018 Eddie Antonio Santos

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

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