pinyin-to-ipa 0.0.2

Description:

pinyintoipa 0.0.2

pinyin-to-ipa







Command-line interface (CLI) and Python library to transcribe pinyin to IPA.
The tones are attached to the vowel of the syllable.
Installation
pip install pinyin-to-ipa --user

Usage
usage: pinyin-to-ipa-cli [-h] [-v] [--sep SEP] [--first] PINYIN

Command-line interface (CLI) to transcribe pinyin to IPA.

positional arguments:
PINYIN pinyin

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
--sep SEP separator between phonemes (default: )
--first return only first result (default: False)

Example
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang1"
pʰa˥ŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang2"
pʰa˧˥ŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang3"
pʰa˧˩˧ŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang4"
pʰa˥˩ŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang5"
pʰaŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "pang"
pʰaŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "hàng"
xa˥˩ŋ
ha˥˩ŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "hàng" --first
xa˥˩ŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "hng"
hŋ
$ pinyin-to-ipa-cli "test"
No IPA transcription available!

Usage as library:
from pinyin_to_ipa import pinyin_to_ipa

print(pinyin_to_ipa("hang4"))
# OrderedSet([('x', 'a˥˩', 'ŋ'), ('h', 'a˥˩', 'ŋ')])

print(pinyin_to_ipa("ng"))
# OrderedSet([('ŋ',)])

Phoneme Set
Vowels:
a
ɛ
e
ə
ɚ
ɤ
i
o
u
ʊ
y

Diphthongs:
ai̯
au̯
aɚ̯¹
ei̯
ou̯

Consonants:
f
h¹
j
k
kʰ
l
m
n
p
pʰ
ɹ̩²
ɻ²
ɻ̩²
s
t
ts
tsʰ
tɕ
tɕʰ
tʰ
w
x
ŋ
ɕ
ɥ
ʂ
ʈʂ
ʈʂʰ
z̩¹²
ʐ¹²
ʐ̩¹²

Vowels and diphthongs contain one of these tones:
˥ (first tone)
˧˥ (second tone)
˧˩˧ (third tone)
˥˩ (fourth tone)
(none)

¹ These phonemes are not included if only the first transcription is used.
² These consonants contain also tones.
References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
Duanmu, San. 2007. The Phonology of Standard Chinese. 2nd ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Lin, Yen-Hwei. 2007. The Sounds of Chinese. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Acknowledgments
pypinyin
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project-ID 416228727 – CRC 1410
Citation
If you want to cite this repo, you can use this BibTeX-entry generated by GitHub (see About => Cite this repository).
Taubert, S. (2024). pinyin-to-ipa (Version 0.0.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10639971