'lngcnv' may stand for 'language converter', 'linguistic converter', 'lenguaje convertido', and the like.
lngcnv allows (1) displaying pronunciation of a phrase in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), (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 as a hundreds of pages long book.
Multiple modern and ancient languages are supported, often including several dialects. All linguistic algorithms and the program source code are created by the author entirely from scratch, and distributed under the MIT license. The program is written in Rust for high performance, code correctness, and ease of long-term development.
Use Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, or Gentium Plus font for good rendering of characters of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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 Chanka/ Ayacucho Quechua (Wanta)
– Translate into Ayacucho Quechua from other varieties of Southern Quechua
– Transcribe between the trivocalic and the pentavocalic orthographies
5. Tikuna/ Ticuna: pronunciation & orthography
– Three variants of pronunciation (Río Cotuhé, CO; 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/releases/tag/v1.5.0
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:
https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/releases/tag/v1.5.0
cargo build && sudo cp target/debug/lngcnv /usr/bin/
Announcements! Also, good place to ask questions or share ideas:
https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/discussions
Technical issues can be opened and tracked here:
https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/issues
https://github.com/piotrbajdek/lngcnv/wiki
The Rust community’s crate registry
https://crates.io/crates/lngcnv