'lngcnv' may stand for 'language converter', 'linguistic converter', 'lenguaje convertido', and the like.
lngcnv constitutes a set of linguistic tools which allow (1) displaying pronunciation of a phrase in the International Phonetic Alphabet, (2) translating between different (e.g., dialectal) varieties of a language, and (3) converting between different (e.g., regional) norms of orthography when a word or some piece of text is provided either (a) as an argument directly from the command line or (b) in a file (such like a hundreds of pages long book).
Multiple modern and ancient languages are (projected to be) supported.
1. English: pronunciation & orthography
– Pronunciation of Australian English [experimental, still in alpha stage]
– Transcribe into American English
2. Latin: pronunciation & orthography
– Reconstructed pronunciation of Classical Latin
– Transcribe into the ancient orthographic convention (before the 2nd c. AD)
3. Polish: pronunciation
– Pronunciation of the Polish Language (Częstochowa)
4. Quechua: pronunciation & dialect translation & orthography
– Pronunciation of Ayacucho Quechua (Wanta)
– Translate into Ayacucho Quechua from other varieties of Southern Quechua
– Transcribe between the trivocalic and the pentavocalic orthographies
5. 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 Spanish is under development.
1. Install from crates.io by the use of cargo:
cargo install lngcnv
By default, the file will be downloaded to .cargo/bin/, a hidden folder in your home directory.
2a. For convenience, you will probably want to copy lngcnv to /usr/bin/ as in Method 2 (3a, 3b).
2b. Alternatively, add ~/.cargo/bin directory to your PATH variable (see documentation of your shell).
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. Then, build and install the program:
cargo build && sudo cp target/debug/lngcnv /usr/bin/
The best place to ask questions or share ideas on lngcnv:
https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/discussions
https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/wiki
The Rust community’s crate registry
https://crates.io/crates/lngcnv