Romanize 3
Python 3 transliteration module to romanize several different ancient scripts to roman letter equivalents and back.
Supported scripts are:
- greek (grc)
- aramaic (arm)
- syriaic (syc)
- arabic (ara)
- phoenician (phn)
- brahmi (brh)
- coptic (cop)
- hebrew (heb)
install
pip install romanize3
Usage
Transliterate syriaic script back and forth:
import romanize3
r = romanize3.__dict__['syc']
print(r.convert("ܠܕܝܠܗ ܐܬܐ ܘܕܝܠܗ ܠܐ ܩܒܠܘܗܝ")) # output: LDILE ATA WDILE LA QBLWEI
print(r.convert("LDILE ATA WDILE LA QBLWEI")) # output: ܠܕܝܠܗ ܐܬܐ ܘܕܝܠܗ ܠܐ ܩܒܠܘܗܝFilter phoenician alphabet from the given text:
r = romanize3.__dict__['phn']
s = """𐤀𐤍𐤊 𐤕𐤁𐤍𐤕 𐤊𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤑𐤃𐤍𐤌 𐤁𐤍
I, Tabnit, priest of Astarte, king of Sidon, the son
𐤀𐤔𐤌𐤍𐤏𐤆𐤓 𐤊𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤑𐤃𐤍𐤌 𐤔𐤊𐤁 𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤍 𐤆
of Eshmunazar, priest of Astarte, king of Sidon, am lying in this sarcophagus."""
print(r.filter(s))Output:
𐤀𐤍𐤊 𐤕𐤁𐤍𐤕 𐤊𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤑𐤃𐤍𐤌 𐤁𐤍
𐤀𐤔𐤌𐤍𐤏𐤆𐤓 𐤊𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤑𐤃𐤍𐤌 𐤔𐤊𐤁 𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤍 𐤆
