https://github.com/enzet/phonetic-alphabet

A featural alternative to IPA
https://github.com/enzet/phonetic-alphabet

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A featural alternative to IPA

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/enzet/phonetic-alphabet
• Owner: enzet
• Created: 2024-07-15T19:08:58.000Z (5 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-19T22:02:39.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-20T02:14:50.526Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: alphabet, font, linguistics, phonetics, typography
• Language: C++
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• Size: 3.57 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Featural alternative to international phonetic alphabet

Goals:

  *  the alphabet is featural, meaning each element should represent some phonological feature of a sound, 

  *  symbols for most frequently used symbols should be as simple as possible, 

  *  the character elements must have the same line width so that they can be written by hand with a pen. 

## Build and run

Requirements:

  * C++20 compiler,

  * CMake version 3.30 or higher,

  * `xelatex` compiler ([XeTeX](https://tug.org/xetex/)).

We include fonts under Open Font License (`fonts` directory):

  * [Doulos SIL](https://software.sil.org/doulos/download/),

  * [Noto Sans Korean](https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+KR),

  * [CMU Serif Roman](https://cm-unicode.sourceforge.io/index.html).

To get a PDF file with the alphabet, run

```shell

./build.sh

```

It will create `build` directory and `out` directory with output PDF file.

## Language utility

Language utility has two commands: `table` and `symbol`:

  *  `table  `, where `rows` is the list of phoneme parameters separated by `,`. E.g. `table "dental,alveolar" "trill;voiceless,trill;voiced"`. 

  *  `symbol `, where `descriptors` is the list of symbol element descriptors. E.g. `symbol vc hc`. 

## Code and commit style

All C++ code should be formatted with clang-format, configuration file is `.clang-format`. All Python code should be formatted with Black, default configuration with `--line-length 80`.