Plains Cree Orthography

NAME CHANGED: cree-sro-syllabics.

Python 3 library to convert between Western Cree standard Roman Orthography (SRO) to syllabics and back again!

Can be used for:

• nêhiyawêwin/ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ/Cree Y-dialect
• nīhithawīwin/ᓃᐦᐃᖬᐑᐏᐣ/Cree Th-dialect
• nēhinawēwin/ᓀᐦᐃᓇᐍᐏᐣ/Cree N-dialect

Install

Using pip:

pip install crk-orthography

Or, you can copy-paste or download crk_othography.py into your own Python 3 project!

Usage

Visit the full documentation here! Wondering about words like "syllabics", "transliterator", or "orthography"? Visit the glossary!

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 '

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.