lngcnv may stand for 'language converter', 'linguistic converter', 'lenguaje convertido', and the like.
lngcnv constitutes a set of linguistic tools which allow (a) displaying pronunciation of a phrase and (b) converting between different (e.g., regional) norms of orthography when a word or some piece of text is provided as an argument directly from the command line.
Multiple modern and ancient languages are (projected to be) supported.
1. English: orthography
– Transcribe into American English
2. Latin: pronunciation & orthography
– Reconstructed pronunciation of Classical Latin
– Transcribe into the ancient orthographic convention
3. Quechua: orthography
– Transcribe between the trivocalic and the pentavocalic orthographies
4. Tikuna: pronunciation & orthography
– Two variants of pronunciation (Nazareth, CO; Umariaçu, BR)
– Four distinct orthographies (Brazil; Colombia; Peru–ILV; Peru–FORMABIAP)
Support for more languages, including the pronunciation of English, Polish, Spanish, Ayacucho Quechua, is under development.
Install from crates.io by the use of cargo:
cargo install lngcnv --version 1.0.0
By default, the file will be downloaded to .cargo/bin/, a hidden folder in your home directory. For convenience, you will probably want to copy lngcnv to /usr/bin/ as in Method 2 (3a, 3b).
1. Download the binary 'lngcnv' for Linux x86_64 from GitHub:
https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv
2. Make the file executable:
sudo chmod +x ./lngcnv
3a. Install lngcnv via copying the binary to /usr/bin/
sudo cp lngcnv /usr/bin/
3b. On Fedora Silverblue / Kinoite:
sudo cp lngcnv /var/usrlocal/bin/
Download the lngcnv source from GitHub, build, rename and install the program:
rustc ./main.rs
mv main lngcnv
sudo cp lngcnv /usr/bin/
https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/wiki
https://crates.io/crates/lngcnv