NAME Lingua::YI::Romanize - Transliterate Yiddish from Hebrew to Latin script SYNOPSIS use Lingua::YI::Romanize; my $romanized_text = Lingua::YI::Romanize->yivo2latn($text); my $phonetic_text = Lingua::YI::Romanize->yivo2ipa($text); DESCRIPTION Lingua::YI::Romanize transliterates Yiddish text written in Hebrew script to the Latin script or to IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). CONSTRUCTOR new() Creates a new object which maintains internal storage areas for the Lingua::YI::Romanize computation. METHODS yivo2latn($text) Returns a string transliterated to Latin characters. Transliteration follows YIVO. $text must be in character mode. $text is first normalized to NFC (Unicode Normalization Form Composed), then normalized to Yiddish precomposed characters. yivo2ipa($text) Returns a string transliterated to IPA. Transliteration follows WWS (The Worlds Writing Systems). $text must be in character mode. $text is first normalized to NFC (Unicode Normalization Form Composed), then normalized to Yiddish precomposed characters. EXPORT None by design. STABILITY Until release of version 1.00 the included methods, names of methods and their interfaces are subject to change. Beginning with version 1.00 the specification will be stable, i.e. not changed between major versions. SOURCE REPOSITORY http://github.com/wollmers/Lingua-YI-Romanize AUTHOR Helmut Wollmersdorfer COPYRIGHT Copyright 2016-2020 Helmut Wollmersdorfer LICENSE This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO