NAME
Text::TransMetaphone::ti - Transcribe Tigrinya words into IPA symbols.
SYNOPSIS
This module is used by Text::TransMetaphone and need not be used directly.
DESCRIPTION
The Text::TransMetaphone::ti module implements the TransMetaphone algorithm for Tigrinya. The module provides a trans_metaphone function that accepts an Tigrinya word as an argument and returns a list of keys transcribed into IPA symbols under Tigrinya orthography rules. The last key of the list is a regular expression that matching all previously returned keys.
A reverse_key function is also provided to convert an IPA symbol key into a regular expression that would phonological sequence under Tigrinya orthography.
STATUS
The Tigrinya module has limited awareness of Tigrinya orthography, no alternative keys are generated at this time. The module will be updated as more rules of Tigrinya orthography are learnt.
COPYRIGHT
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
BUGS
None presently known.
AUTHOR
Daniel Yacob, dyacob@cpan.org