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NAME

Text::TransMetaphone::ja_katakana - Transcribe Katakana words into IPA symbols.

SYNOPSIS

This module is used by Text::TransMetaphone and need not be used directly.

DESCRIPTION

The Text::TransMetaphone::ja_katakana module implements the TransMetaphone algorithm for Katakana. The module provides a trans_metaphone function that accepts an Katakana word as an argument and returns a list of keys transcribed into IPA symbols under Katakana 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 Katakana orthography.

STATUS

The Katakana module has limited awareness of Katakana orthography, no alternative keys are generated at this time. The module will be updated as more rules of Katakana 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

SEE ALSO

Text::TransMetaphone