WHAT IS LNGCNV

'lngcnv' may stand for 'language converter', 'linguistic converter', 'lenguaje convertido', and the like.

lngcnv constitutes a set of linguistic tools which allow (a) displaying pronunciation of a phrase and (b) converting between different (e.g., regional) norms of orthography when a word or some piece of text is provided as an argument directly from the command line.

Multiple modern and ancient languages are (projected to be) supported.

SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

1. English: orthography

– Transcribe into American English

2. Latin: pronunciation & orthography

– Reconstructed pronunciation of Classical Latin

– Transcribe into the ancient orthographic convention (before the 2nd c. AD)

3. Polish: pronunciation

– Pronunciation of the Polish Language (Częstochowa)

4. Quechua: pronunciation & orthography

– Pronunciation of Ayacucho Quechua (Wanta)

– Transcribe between the trivocalic and the pentavocalic orthographies

5. Tikuna: pronunciation & orthography

– Two variants of pronunciation (Nazareth, CO; Umariaçu, BR)

– Four distinct orthographies (Brazil; Colombia; Peru–ILV; Peru–FORMABIAP)

Support for more languages, including the pronunciation of English and Spanish, is under development.

INSTALLATION ON LINUX

METHOD 1

1. Install from crates.io by the use of cargo:

cargo install lngcnv --version 1.2.0

By default, the file will be downloaded to .cargo/bin/, a hidden folder in your home directory.

2a. For convenience, you will probably want to copy lngcnv to /usr/bin/ as in Method 2 (3a, 3b).

2b. Alternatively, add ~/.cargo/bin directory to your PATH variable (see documentation of your shell).

METHOD 2

1. Download the binary 'lngcnv' for Linux x86_64 from GitHub:

https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv

2. Make the file executable:

sudo chmod +x ./lngcnv

3a. Install lngcnv via copying the binary to /usr/bin/

sudo cp lngcnv /usr/bin/

3b. On Fedora Silverblue / Kinoite:

sudo cp lngcnv /var/usrlocal/bin/

METHOD 3

Download the lngcnv source from GitHub, build, rename and install the program:

rustc ./main.rs

mv main lngcnv

sudo cp lngcnv /usr/bin/

THE OFFICIAL LNGCNV FORUM

The best place to ask questions or share ideas on lngcnv:

https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/discussions

CHECK OUT THE LNGCNV WIKI

https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/wiki

LNGCNV ON CRATES.IO

The Rust community’s crate registry

https://crates.io/crates/lngcnv