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An orthographic system for texts in the pre-Euclidean Attic alphabet.

Instantiate an AtticOrthography with correct code points and token types.

atticGreek()

Alphabetically sort a list of words in Unicode Greek.

sortWords(words, ortho)

Alphabetically sort a list of words in Unicode Greek.

sortWords(words, ortho)

Identify code points representing consonants.

consonants(ortho)

Implement consonants function of GreekOrthography interface.

consonants(ortho)

Implement GreekOrthography's consonants function for AtticOrthography.

consonants(attic)

Identify code points representing simple vowels.

vowels(ortho)

This does not include code points representing vowels combined with accents. It does include any code points representing vowels plus breathing or vowels with subscript.

Implement vowels function of GreekOrthography interface.

vowels(ortho)

Implement GreekOrthography's vowels function for AtticOrthography.

vowels(attic)

Generic method of GreekOrthography's syllabify function.

syllabify(s, ortho)

Allow syllabification defaulting to LiteraryGreekOrthography.

syllabify(s)

Split string s into an Array of strings representing syllables.

syllabify(s, ortho)

Example

syllables = PolytonicGreek.syllabify("κελεύει")
join(syllables, "-")
"κε-λευ-ει"

Compose a string with all alphabetic characters.

alphabetic()

Compose a string with all punctuation characters.

True if all characters in s are alphabetic.

isAlphabetic(s)

True if all characters in s are puncutation.

isPunctuation(s)

Create correct OrthographicToken for a given string.

tokenforstring(s)

Split off any trailing punctuation and return an Array of leading string + trailing punctuation.

splitPunctuation(s)

Return ultima.

ultima(s, ag)

Return penult.

penult(s, ag)

Return antepenult.

antepenult(s, ag)

NB: Rms accent since they're not relevant to syllables.

Remove all consonants from s.

vowelsonly(s, ag)

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True if syll is a long syllable in Attic Greek orthography.

longsyllable(syll, ortho)

Arguments

• syll is a single syllable
• ortho an instance of AtticOrthography

True if syll counts as long for accent in ultima.

finallong(syll, ortho)

True if syll counts as short for accent in ultima.

finalshort(syll, ortho)

Remove all accent characters from s.

rmaccents(s, ortho)

Parameters

• s is a Greek string
• ortho is an implementation of GreekOrthography

Default to using literary Greek orthography for rmaccents.

rmaccents(s)

Implement GreekOrthography's rmaccents function for LiteraryGreekOrthography.

rmaccents(s, ortho)

Implement GreekOrthography's rmaccents function for LiteraryGreekOrthography.

rmaccents(s, ortho)

Count accents in s.

countaccents(s, ortho)

Parameters

• s is a Greek string
• ortho is an implementation of GreekOrthography

Default to using literary Greek orthography for countaccents.

countaccents(s)

Counts number of accents in s.

countaccents(s, ortho)

Counts number of accents in s.

countaccents(s, ortho)

Accent word s.

accentword(s, placement, ortho)

Parameters

• s is a Greek string
• placement is :RECESSIVE, or :PENULT
• ortho is an implementation of GreekOrthography

Accent word according to specified system of accent placement.

accentword(wrd, placement)
accentword(wrd, placement, ortho)

Parameters

• wrd is a string value representing a single lexical token.
• placement is one of :RECESSIVE for recessive accent

or :PENULT for persistent accent on the penultimate syllable.

Note that it is not possible to accent the ultima correctly without additional morphological information beyond the string value of the token.

Accent word according to specified system of accent placement.

accentword(wrd, placement, ortho)

Parameters

• wrd is a string value representing a single lexical token.
• placement is one of :RECESSIVE for recessive accent

or :PENULT for persistent accent on the penultimate syllable.

Note that it is not possible to accent the ultima correctly without additional morphological information beyond the string value of the token.

Accent final syllable of wrd.

accentultima(wrd, accent, ortho)

Parameters

• s is a Greek string
• accent is :ACUTE, or :CIRCUMFLEX
• ortho is an implementation of GreekOrthography

Place accent on ultima.

accentultima(wrd, accent)
accentultima(wrd, accent, ortho)

Place specified accent on final syllable of wrd.

accentultima(wrd, accent, ortho)

accent is one of either :ACUTE or :CIRCUMFLEX. The function returns nothing for any other symbol for accent.

Accent penultimate syllable of wrd.

accentpenult(wrd, accent, ortho)

Parameters

• s is a Greek string
• accent is :ACUTE, or :CIRCUMFLEX
• ortho is an implementation of GreekOrthography

Place accent on penult.

accentpenult(wrd, accent)
accentpenult(wrd, accent, ortho)

Place specified accent on penult of wrd.

accentpenult(wrd, accent, ortho)

accent is one of either :ACUTE or :CIRCUMFLEX. The function returns nothing for any other symbol for accent.

Place default accent(:ACUTE) on antepenult.

accentantepenult(wrd, ortho)

Accent wrd proparoxytone.

accentantepenult(wrd, ortho)

Remove any second accent due to enclisis from s.

stripenclitic(s, ortho)

Add an acute accent to a single vowel or diphthong.

addacute(vowel, ortho)

Add a circumflex accent to a single vowel or diphthong

addcircumflex(vowel, ortho)

Map accented vowels to unaccented forms, but keep smooth breathing

accentstripdict(ortho)

Convert grave accent to acute.

flipaccent(s, ag)

Normalize s to a standard form with no enclitics, and all barytone accent converted to oxytone.

tokenform(s, ortho)

Add specified accent to a single syllable.

accentsyllable(syll, accent, ortho)

Parameters

• syll is a string value for a single syllable.
• accent is either :ACUTE or :CIRCUMFLEX. The function returns nothing for any other symbol for accent.