API documentation

Concatenate s1 and a list of strings slist, taking account of any phonological modifications required by orthography ortho.

strcat(ortho, s1, slist; elision)

Concatenate the pair of strings s1 and s2, taking account of any phonological modifications required by orthography ortho.

strcat(ortho, s1, s2)

Concatenate s1 and s2 d, taking account of necessary phonological modifications.

strcat(ortho, s1, s2; elision)

Alphabetically sort a list of words in Unicode Greek.

sortWords(words, ortho)

True if s is a vowel or diphthong.

vocalic(s)

True if c is a vowel or diphthong.

vocalic(c)

True if s is a consonant.

consonantal(s)

Identify code points representing liquid consonants.

liquids(ortho)

List code points for liquid consonants in literary Greek.

liquids(ortho)

Identify code points representing labial consonants.

labials(ortho)

List code points for labial consonants in literary Greek.

labials(ortho)

Identify code points representing dental consonants.

dentals(ortho)

List code points for dental consonants in literary Greek.

dentals(ortho)

Identify code points representing palatal consonants.

palatals(ortho)

List code points for palatal consonants in literary Greek.

palatals(ortho)

Identify code points representing stops.

stops(ortho)

Generic method of function to augment a string.

augment(s, ortho)

Parameters

• ortho An instance of a GreekOrthography

Implementatiοn of GreekOrthography's augment function for literary Greek.

augment(s, ortho)

NB: augment removes all accents from the resulting string.

Parameters

• ortho An instance of a LiteraryGreekOrthography
• s An optional string to augment. If is not included, the function returns

a default augment string that can be applied to verb forms starting with a consonant (except note that ρ doubles after augment in standard literary Greek orthography).

Generic method of function to identify string for syllabic augment in initial position.

augment_initial(ortho)

Parameters

• ortho An instance of a GreekOrthography

Identify string to use for syllabic augment in word-initial position.

augment_initial(ortho)

Generic method of function to identify string for syllabic augment when preceded by a prefix.

augment_medial(ortho)

Parameters

• ortho An instance of a GreekOrthography

Identify string to use for syllabic augment in compound verb.

augment_medial(ortho)

Add reduplications to s, taking account of any phonological modifications required by orthography ortho.

reduplicate(s, ortho)

Reduplicate s, taking account of any necessary phonological modifications.

reduplicate(s, 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)

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.

True if s has at least one accent.

accented(s)

List proclitics in this orthography.

proclitics(ortho)

List proclitics in LiteraryGreekOrthography.

proclitics(ortho)

Based on Smyth ¶ 179.

List enclitics in this orthography.

enclitics(ortho)

List enclitics in LiteraryGreekOrthography.

enclitics(ortho)

Based on Smyth ¶ 181.

Remove any breathing from s.

rmbreathing(s, ortho)

Add the specified breathing to s.

addbreathing(s, breath, ortho)

breath should be one of :SMOOTH or :ROUGH.

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)

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)

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)

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"

An orthographic system for standard orthography of printed literary Greek.

Instantiate a LiteraryGreekOrthography with correct code points and token types.

literaryGreek()

Respect explicitly indicated morpheme boundaries.

splitmorphemes(s)

Example

PolytonicGreek.splitmorphemes("εἰσ#ῄα")
"εἰσ ῄα"

Mu+nu stay together.

splitmunu(s)

ἀναμιμνησκόμενος breaks as "ἀναμι μνησκομενος"

Split between a liquid and non-liquid consonant.

splitdiphthongvowel(s)

Split between a diphthong and following vowel.

Example

PolytonicGreek.splitdiphthongvowel("κελεύει")
"κελευ ει"

Split between a vowel and a following diphthong.

"οἰκι αις"

Compose a string with all alphabetic characters.

alphabetic()

Compose a string with all punctuation characters.

punctuation()

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)

List all code points including an accent.

allaccents()

Default to using LiteraryGreekOrthography.

List all code points including an accent in LiteraryGreekOrthography.

allaccents(ortho)

Dictionary mapping Unicode codepoints with accents to codepoint with accent stripped.

accentstripdict()

Default to using LiteraryGreekOrthography.

Dictionary mapping Unicode codepoints with accents to codepoint with accent stripped for LiteraryGreekOrthography.

accentstripdict(ortho)

We can't just use Unicode.normalize with stripmark flag because that strips breathings, iota subscripts, and diaereses as well.

Dictionary of barytone to oxytone conversions.

flipdict()

Default to using LiteraryGreekOrthography.

Dictionary of barytone to oxytone conversions for LiteraryGreekOrthography.

flipdict(ortho)

Dictionary of acutes.

acutedict()

Default to using LiteraryGreekOrthography.

Dictionary of acutes for LiteraryGreekOrthography.

acutedict(ortho)

Dictionary of circumflexes.

circumflexdict()

Default to using LiteraryGreekOrthography.

Dictionary of circumflexes for LiteraryGreekOrthography.

circumflexdict(ortho)

Add an acute accent to a single vowel or diphthong.

addacute(vowel)
addacute(vowel, ortho)

Examples

julia> PolytonicGreek.addacute("ᾀ")
"ᾄ"
julia> PolytonicGreek.addacute("τα")
┌ Warning: addacute: can't add acute accent to vowel τα

Add a circumflex accent to a single vowel or diphthong

addcircumflex(vowel)
addcircumflex(vowel, ortho)

Examples

julia> PolytonicGreek.addcircumflex("ᾀ")
"ᾆ"
julia> PolytonicGreek.addcircumflex("τα")
┌ Warning: addcircumflex: can't add circumflex accent to vowel τα

Add specified accent to a single syllable.

accentsyllable(syll, accent)
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 symble for accent.

Examples

julia> PolytonicGreek.accentsyllable("των", :CIRCUMFLEX)
"τῶν"
julia> PolytonicGreek.accentsyllable("τα", :ACUTE)
"τά"
julia> PolytonicGreek.accentsyllable("ᾀ", :ACUTE)
"ᾄ"

Place default accent(:ACUTE) on antepenult.

accentantepenult(wrd, ortho)

Return ultima.

ultima(s, ortho)

Return penult.

penult(s, ortho)

True if syll is metrically long by nature.

longsyllable(syll, ortho)

Arguments

• syll is text for a single syllable
• ortho is a GreekOrthography

Examples

julia> PolytonicGreek.longsyllable("τει")
true
julia> PolytonicGreek.longsyllable("τε")
false

True if syll is not long by nature.

shortsyllable(syll, ortho)

Examples

julia> PolytonicGreek.shortsyllable("ε")
true
julia> PolytonicGreek.shortsyllable("ει")
false

True if s contains a diphthong.

includesdiphthong(s)

Examples

julia> PolytonicGreek.includesdiphthong("εὐθύς")
true
julia> PolytonicGreek.includesdiphthong("ᾔα")
false

Convert grave accent to acute.

flipaccent(s, ortho)

Remove all consonants from s.

vowelsonly(s, ortho)

Example

julia> PolytonicGreek.vowelsonly("τῶν")
"ῶ"

Remove any second enclitic accent from s.

Create NFKC forms of code points with diaeresis.

normalizediaresis()

Collect a normalized set of all codepoints with accent.

normalizeaccentcombos()