lao2ipa 1.0.0

A package to transliterate Lao characters into a number of romanization systems, such as IPA and MoH2020

lao2ipa

Lightweight rule-based Lao → IPA transliteration utilities.

This package tokenizes Lao text into orthographic units, groups characters into syllables, applies tone-placement heuristics, and renders IPA transliterations (with optional alternate outputs).

Quickstart

Install (from PyPI):

pip install lao2ipa

Install (from source):

pip install -e .

Basic usage (Python):

from lao2ipa import transliterate

print(transliterate('ສະບາຍດີ'))  # example output: IPA transliteration

Function signature:

• transliterate(lao_source: str, output: str = 'ipa', ignore_tones: bool = False, remove_karan_phonemes: bool = False)

Output keys (valid output values):

• ipa — Unicode IPA transliteration (default)
• moh — Ministry of Health (MoH 2020) romanization mapping

Development

• Run tests with pytest -q.
• Code lives in src/lao2ipa.py.

Contributing

Please open an issue or PR if you find incorrect mappings or wish to improve heuristics (tone assignment and vowel clusters are the most likely areas to require refinement).

License

See the LICENSE file in the repository root.