Cree SRO/Syllabics

Convert between Western Cree standard Roman orthography (SRO) and syllabics!

This is a port of the Python library of the same name. For more complete documentation, see the Python version's documentation.

Install

Browser

Copy cree-sro-syllabics.js to wherever is most convenient. Then, include it in your HTML like this:

<script src="/path/to/cree-sro-syllabics.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>

Make sure to provide charset="UTF-8"! The browser may attempt to read the file in an alternate encoding, and the converter will no longer work as expected.

When loaded in the browser, you can access all functions using the CreeSROSyllabics global:

<script src="/path/to/cree-sro-syllabics.js" charset="UTF-8"></script>
<script>
console.log(CreeSROSyllabics.sro2syllabics("tân'si")) // logs "ᑕᓂᓯ"
</script>

NodeJS

Install using npm:

npm install cree-sro-syllabics --save

Then require() it into your code:

var CreeSROSyllabics = require('cree-sro-syllabics')

console.log(CreeSROSyllabics.sro2syllabics("tân'si")) // logs ᑖᓂᓯ

Usage

There are two primary functions: sro2syllabics() and syllabics2sro(). There is also the version constant.

sro2syllabics()

sro2Syllabics(sroString: string, options = {}): string

Convert text in SRO to syllabics.

CreeSROSyllabics.sro2syllabics("tân'si")
// returns "ᑕᓂᓯ"

options, if supplied, is an object containing the following options:

options.hyphens

What character to use as hyphens. Defaults to U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE—a space that is narrower than a word separating space; line breaks are not permitted at this space.

Using a normal space character:

CreeSROSyllabics.sro2syllabics('kâ-mahihkani-pimohtêt', { hyphens: ' ' })

ᑳ ᒪᐦᐃᐦᑲᓂ ᐱᒧᐦᑌᐟ

Using the default:

CreeSROSyllabics.sro2syllabics('kâ-mahihkani-pimohtêt')

ᑳ ᒪᐦᐃᐦᑲᓂ ᐱᒧᐦᑌᐟ

options.finalHK

What character use as the word-final “hk” (e.g., in locatives and certain conjunct mode verb forms). Use either "x" (default) or "hk".

The default is to use the «ᕽ» syllabic:

CreeSROSyllabics.sro2syllabics('sâwanohk')

ᓵᐘᓄᕽ

This is equivalent to providing { finalHK: "x" }:

CreeSROSyllabics.sro2syllabics('sâwanohk', { finalHK: "x" })

ᓵᐘᓄᕽ

However, some communities (like Maskwacîs) do not use the «ᕽ» syllabic, instead using «ᐦᐠ». You can specify { finalHK: "hk" } to get this behaviour instead:

CreeSROSyllabics.sro2syllabics('sâwanohk', { finalHK: "hk" })

ᓵᐘᓄᐦᐠ

syllabics2sro()

syllabics2sro(syllabicsString: string, options = {}): string

Convert text in syllabics to SRO.

CreeSROSyllabics.syllabics2sro('ᑖᓂᓯ')
// returns "tân'si"

options, if supplied, is an object containing the following options:

options.longAccents

Whether to produce circumflexes (âêîô) or macrons (āēīō) when transliterating long vowels.

Valid options:

• 'circumflexes' (default)
• 'macrons'

Specifying 'macrons':

CreeSROSyllabics.syllabics2sro("ᑖᓂᓯ", { longAccents: 'macrons' })

tānisi

Using the defaults (circumflexes):

CreeSROSyllabics.syllabics2sro("ᑖᓂᓯ")

tânisi

version

The module's current version, as a string.

License

Copyright © 2018–2021 National Research Council Canada.

Licensed under the MIT license.