script-converter 0.0.2

Converts strings between two character sets

script_converter

This is a simple tool to transliterate a given string using two character sets. The mapping between the sets must be provided in a .csv file, which has two columns, IPA and Ortho

Use is script_converter.convert(STRING, MAPPING_FILE_PATH), which will return a transliterated string. Per default, the Ortho values will be replaced by the IPA values. If transliteration should happen the other way around, the option to_ipa=False can be used.

example

I illustrate the functionality using Vamale as an example. The IPA and orthographic representations of all Vamale phonemes are listed in a file vamale_mapping.csv:

IPA	Ortho
xh	x
x	ɣ
xhw	xʷ
â	ã
ê	ẽ
î	ĩ
ô	õ
û	ũ
g	ᵑɡ
d	ⁿd
j	ᶮɟ
mw	mʷ
pw	pʷ
vw	vʷ
fw	fʷ
phw	pʰʷ
bw	ᵐbʷ
b	ᵐb
ph	pʰ
kh	kʰ
th	tʰ
hm	m̥
hny	ɲ̊
ny	ɲ
hn	n̥
hl	l̥
aa	aː
ee	eː
ii	iː
oo	oː
uu	uː
ââ	ãː
êê	ẽː
îî	ĩː
ôô	õː
ûû	ũː
a	a
e	e
i	i
o	o
u	u
ng	ŋ

Now, the example sentence i beeng a kon hnyimake ko li aman a a vwa ('My friend is thinking about the things he is doing') can be converted:

print(script_converter.convert("i beeng a kon hnyimake ko li aman a a vwa", "vamale_mapping.csv"))

This results in the output i ᵐbeːŋ a kon ɲ̊imake ko li aman a a vʷa. This, in turn, could be converted back to i beeng a kon hnyimake ko li aman a a vwa using the following command:

print(script_converter.convert("i ᵐbeːŋ a kon ɲ̊imake ko li aman a a vʷa", "vamale_mapping.csv", to_ipa=False))