Transliterates Roman othographic Inuktitut into the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics equivalents.
Project Website: http://transliterator.maakusii.com/
April 10: - Removed Hex from syllabics tables - Changed license to CC BY-SA 4.0
April 9: - Project has been rewritten using AngularJS, so now processing is all client-side. - input supports all sorts of characters that the previous version didn't, including carriage returns and spaces, so you can basically just paste paragraphs of Roman Orthograpic text into it! - Support for alternative options for ł as lh, &l, and ll (western dialects). - Support for the nng syllabics (which had somehow been missed in the previous version). - Support for the H character, which carries over from the Roman character set. - Now using Bootstrap, so it looks much nicer. - The website now collects user data via Google Analytics.
This project began out of my personal interest to better understand Inuktitut, and out of frustration that there were few really simple ways transliterate on the fly. It started as a shell script, and evolved into a very rudamentary website for use by friends.
In January 2016 some bugs were brought to my atteniton and I decided to release the code on Github to make it available for people interested in using it offline or helping to improve it. In the spirit of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (or my best understanding of the spirit), this project is open source (using the MIT License right now).
- There are three symbols to represent three short-form vowels:
- a, i, and u;
- ᐊ, ᐃ, and ᐅ.
- These three can be made long vowels by a combining dot above:
- aa, ii, and uu;
- ᐋ, ᐄ, and ᐆ.
- Fourteen consonants can stand alone as superscript characters:
- H, p, t, k, m, n, r, s, l, j, g, q, v, ł(/lh/&l/ll), and ng;
- H, ᑉ, ᑦ, ᒃ, ᒻ, ᓐ, ᕐ, ᔅ, ᓪ, ᔾ, ᒡ, ᖅ, ᕝ, ᖦ, and ᖕ.
- Superscript consonants follow vowels, or otherwise they combine
- with the vowel to produce a new syllabic (see 4).
- A consonant immediately preceeding a vowel in a word produces a new symbol:
- 84 possibilites exist; 42 short vowel, and 42 long vowel;
- The complete table of syllabics appears below.
Many people know how to write in syllabics on computers by using special keyboard sets provided thought system macros or third party applications, as well as by using other online transliterators. Despite this, there is still some technical barrier to writing in syllabic Inuktitut. The goal of this tool is to eliminate that barrier as much as possible, and make writing syllabics on a computer available to anyone.
For the enthusiasm from a handful of unexected users. Please continue to share this tool. Thanks to people who have contributed their knowledge of Inuktitut and identified problems with the software.
In Inuktitut the “syllabics” are actually an abugida set, not than a syllabary; however, in popular convention, Nuanvut’s Inuit Language Protection Act, and the Unicode block title, the word “syllabics” persists.
| i-vowels | u-vowels | a-vowels | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Othography | Syllabics | Othography | Syllabics | Othography | Syllabics |
| i | ᐃ | u | ᐅ | a | ᐊ |
| pi | ᐱ | pu | ᐳ | pa | ᐸ |
| ti | ᑎ | tu | ᑐ | ta | ᑕ |
| ki | ᑭ | ku | ᑯ | ka | ᑲ |
| gi | ᒋ | gu | ᒍ | ga | ᒐ |
| mi | ᒥ | mu | ᒧ | ma | ᒪ |
| ni | ᓂ | nu | ᓄ | na | ᓇ |
| li | ᓕ | lu | ᓗ | la | ᓚ |
| si | ᓯ | su | ᓱ | sa | ᓴ |
| ji | ᔨ | ju | ᔪ | ja | ᔭ |
| ri | ᕆ | ru | ᕈ | ra | ᕋ |
| vi | ᕕ | vu | ᕗ | va | ᕙ |
| qi | ᕿ | qu | ᖁ | qa | ᖃ |
| ngi | ᖏ | ngu | ᖑ | nga | ᖓ |
| nngi | ᙱ | nngu | ᙳ | nnga | ᙵ |
| lh/&l/łi | ᖠ | lh/&l/łu | ᖢ | lh/&l/ła | ᖤ |
| ii | ᐄ | uu | ᐆ | aa | ᐋ |
| pii | ᐲ | puu | ᐴ | paa | ᐹ |
| tii | ᑏ | tuu | ᑑ | taa | ᑖ |
| kii | ᑮ | kuu | ᑰ | kaa | ᑳ |
| gii | ᒌ | guu | ᒎ | gaa | ᒑ |
| mii | ᒦ | muu | ᒨ | maa | ᒫ |
| nii | ᓃ | nuu | ᓅ | naa | ᓈ |
| lii | ᓖ | luu | ᓘ | laa | ᓛ |
| sii | ᓰ | suu | ᓲ | saa | ᓵ |
| jii | ᔩ | juu | ᔫ | jaa | ᔮ |
| rii | ᕇ | ruu | ᕉ | raa | ᕌ |
| vii | ᕖ | vuu | ᕘ | vaa | ᕚ |
| qii | ᖀ | quu | ᖂ | qaa | ᖄ |
| ngii | ᖐ | nguu | ᖒ | ngaa | ᖔ |
| nngii | ᙲ | nnguu | ᙴ | nngaa | ᙶ |
| lh/ll/&l/łii | ᖡ | lh/ll/&l/łuu | ᖣ | lh/ll/&l/łaa | ᖥ |
Note in the above table that the ł character may be written as lh, ll, or &l, to support conventional keyboards methods and a variety of observed spelling preferences.
| Consonants | |
|---|---|
| Othography | Syllabics |
| p | ᑉ |
| t | ᑦ |
| k | ᒃ |
| g | ᒡ |
| m | ᒻ |
| n | ᓐ |
| l | ᓪ |
| s | ᔅ |
| j | ᔾ |
| r | ᕐ |
| v | ᕝ |
| q | ᖅ |
| ng | ᖕ |
| lh | ᖦ |
| Digraphic "qq" Exceptions | |
|---|---|
| Othography | Syllabics |
| qqi | ᖅᑭ |
| qqu | ᖅᑯ |
| qqa | ᖅᑲ |
| qqii | ᖅᑮ |
| qquu | ᖅᑰ |
| qqaa | ᖅᑳ |
Mark Walle, 2016.
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