Domovyk

A package to transliterate various Cyrillic alphabets to and from the Latin alphabet using the American Library Association-Library of Congress Romanization tables.

Domovyk is named after household spirits from Slavic mythology.

Installation

Install using pip:

pip3 install domovyk

Or download the GitHub repo and the install the only dependency (for sentence tokenization):

pip3 install nltk

Usage

The package uses the ALA-LC Romanization tables to transliterate each of the following languages:

• Belarusian
• Bulgarian
• Carpatho-Rusyn
• Church Slavonic
• Macedonian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Ukrainian

Four functions can be called for each language:

• transliterate(var, lang) - Transliterates a Cyrillic string or list of strings (var) from a specified language (lang) into the Latin alphabet. Returns a string.
• translatinate(var, lang) - Transliterates a string or list of strings in the Latin alphabet (var) to a specified Cyrillic script (lang). Returns a string.
• transliterateSents(var, lang) - Tokenizes a given Cyrillic (var) into a list of sentences, then transliterates those sentences from a specified language (lang) into the Latin alphabet. Returns a list.
• translatinateSents(var, lang) - Tokenizes a given string in the Latin alphabet (var) into a list of sentences, then transliterates those sentences to a specified Cyrillic script (lang). Returns a list.

Some usage examples are below:

from domovyk import translit

belarusian_to_latin = translit.transliterate('Як справы?', 'bel')
latin_to_macedonian = translit.translatinate('Hi, how are you?', 'mac')
ukrainian_to_latin_sents = translit.transliterateSents('Єхидна, ґава, їжак ще й шиплячі плазуни бігцем форсують Янцзи.', 'ukr')
latin_to_russian_sents = translit.translatinateSents('Hello, how are you doing?', 'rus')

The languages can be called in the code using the following abbreviations:

• Belarusian - 'bel'
• Bulgarian - 'bulg'
• Carpatho-Rusyn - 'carp'
• Church Slavonic - 'church'
• Macedonian - 'mac'
• Russian 'rus'
• Serbian - 'serb'
• Ukrainian - 'ukr'