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# ¤Sinhala-Sinhala (IPA Phonetics)

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…/transforms/transform[@source="si"][@target="si_FONIPA"][@direction="forward"]/_alias | ▷missing◁ | si-fonipa-t-si
…/transforms/transform[@source="si"][@target="si_FONIPA"][@direction="forward"]/_visibility | ▷missing◁ | external
…/transforms/transform[@source="si"][@target="si_FONIPA"][@direction="forward"]/tRule | ▷missing◁ | # Sinhala pronunciation rules # # Output # k ɡ ŋ ᵑɡ c ɟ ɲ ʈ ɖ ⁿɖ t d n ⁿd p b m ᵐb j r l w ʃ s h f # ə əː a aː æ æː i iː u uː e eː o oː # # References # [1] Asanka Wasala, Ruvan Weerasinghe, and Kumudu Gamage: # Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis. # Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, # pages 890–897. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P06-2114 # Simplify ya + yansaya to plain ya after a consonant. [\u0D9A-\u0DC6] \u0DCA (\u200D)? { ය්‍ය → ය; # Delete ZWNJ and ZWJ to simplify further processing. \u200C → ; \u200D → ; # Insert a schwa after every consonant that is not followed by a dependent vowel # or virama. ::Null; ([\u0D9A-\u0DC6]) } [^\u0DCA-\u0DDF \u0DF2\u0DF3] → $1 ə; # Pronunciation rules proper. ::Null; # fප is an alternative spelling of ෆ. # This occurs e.g. in ඩේවිඩ් කොපර්fපීල්ඩ් (David Copperfield) # [see http://bradshawofthefuture.blogspot.com/2013/02/f.html]. [Ff]ප → f; # zස is seemingly the only way to unambiguously indicate a voiced /z/ sound. # This occurs in e.g. ඇල්zසයිම' රෝගය (Alzheimer's disease) # [see https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/ඇල්zසයිම%27_රෝගය] # or in zසීබ්‍රා (zebra) [see https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/‍zසීබ්‍රා]. [Zz]ස → z; ං → ŋ; o → ŋ; # common substitution for anusvaraya ඃ ([\u0D9A-\u0DC6]) → | $1 \u0DCA $1; # TODO: check which consonants geminate ඃ → h; අ → a; ආ → aː; ඇ → æ; ඈ → æː; ඉ → i; ඊ → iː; උ → u; ඌ → uː; ඍ → ri; ඎ → ruː; ඏ → ilu; ඐ → iluː; එ → e; ඒ → eː; ඓ → aj; ඔ → o; ඕ → oː; ඖ → aw; # TODO: check if this is correct ක → k; ඛ → k; ග → ɡ; ඝ → ɡ; ඞ → ŋ; ඟ → ᵑɡ; ච → c; ඡ → c; ජ → ɟ; ඣ → ɟ; ඤ → ɲ; ඥ → kɲ; # TODO: double-check ඦ → ɟ; ට → ʈ; ඨ → ʈ; ඩ → ɖ; ඪ → ɖ; ණ → n; ඬ → ⁿɖ; ත → t; ථ → t; ද → d; ධ → d; න → n; ඳ → ⁿd; ප → p; ඵ → p; බ → b; භ → b; ම → m; ඹ → ᵐb; ය → j; ර → r; ල → l; ව → w; ශ → ʃ; ෂ → ʃ; ස → s; හ → h; ළ → l; ෆ → f; \u0DCA → ; # delete virama ා → aː; ැ → æ; ෑ → æː; \u0DD2 → i; \u0DD3 → iː; \u0DD4 → u; \u0DD6 → uː; ෘ → ru; ෙ → e; ේ → eː; ෛ → aj; ො → o; ෝ → oː; ෞ → aw; # TODO: check if this is correct ෟ → lu; ෲ → ruː; ෳ → luː; # Heuristics for turning /ə/ into /a/. Based on [1]. $c=[k ɡ ŋ {ᵑɡ} c ɟ ɲ ʈ ɖ {ⁿɖ} t d n {ⁿd} p b m {ᵐb} j r l w ʃ s z h f]; $s=[:^L:]; # Rule #1 ::Null; $s sv { ə → ə; # exception (a) $s k { ə } r → ə; # exception (b) $s $c { ə } $s → ə; # exception (c) $s $c $c { ə → a; $s $c { ə → a; # Rule #2 ::Null; $c r { ə } $c → a; # clause (a) and (b) $c r { a } h → a; # clause (d), exception $c r { a } $c → ə; # clause (c) # Rule #3 # The paper is unclear about what this rule means. The interpretation here # assumes that "preceded" in the paper is a typo and should be read "followed". ::Null; [a e æ o ə] h { ə → a; # Rules #4 through #7 ::Null; ə } $c $c → a; # Rule #4 ə } [rbɖʈ] $s → ə; # Rule #5 exception ə } $c $s → a; # Rule #5 ə } ji $s → a; # Rule #6 k { ə } [rl] u → a; # Rule #7 # Rule #8 # Note that the paper doesn't say explicitly that this rule should be # anchored at the beginning of a word, but the remarks before the rules # seem to imply this. ::Null; $s k { a } l[aeo]ːj → ə; # Typo in paper: /j/ was /y/. $s k { a } le[mh][ui] → ə; $s k { alə } h[ui] → əle; $s k { a } lə → ə; # Diphthongs ::Null; www+ → ww; # යෞව්වන [i {iː} e {eː} æ {æː} o {oː} a {aː}] { wu → w; əji → aj; iji → iː; # perhaps: ij [u {uː} e {eː} æ {æː} o {oː} a {aː}] { ji → j;