Add Pashto language support based on Urdu language files
This commit adds support for the Pashto language (ps) to espeak-ng. The implementation is based on Urdu language files and includes ps_rules, ps_list, ps_emoji, ps_extra files and updated Makefile.am to include Pashto in the dictionary targets and build rules.
fix: add Pashto data file.
refactor: use enhance rules for stress.
fix: add missing configs.
Add Pashto phoneme support and improve voice files
fix: add Pashto phonemes test.
fix: restore original phonemes.
fix: remove renduandant ps_dict from Make.am file.
fix: use correct phonemes with ipa and stress rules.
feat: translate all en_emoji to Pashto.
fix: add Pashto dict entry in Makefile.am
feat: enhance ps_rules with example pairs and words.
- fixed/removed not working rules in be_list
- added stress to the words in be_list
- fixed multi thousand transcription
- removed not working rules in be_rules
- added rules of palatalization, phonemes lengthen
- fixed dropping of [a] at the end of words
- fixed message "Full dictionary is not installed for"
- added configuration in tr_languages.c
- fixed/added phonemes for `Q`, `ts`, `ts;`, `dz`, `dz.`, `;` etc
This patch strip out dependency on Russian, as its complicated relationship
between spelling and pronunciation overburden rules for Belarusian. The rules
themselves are also added. They don't have devoicing at the end of the words
for now. Also, gemination of consonants doesn't work as expected, as it seems
on the top of this rule some other rules apply. This after-processing is
responsible also for the strange behaviour of ending [a].
This commit implements support for [Totontepec Mixe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totontepec_Mixe). The Espeak rules are based on the phonological inventory, orthographic mappings, and phonetic processes described in the "Esbozo fonológico" (phonological outline/sketch) chapter of Verónica Guzmán Guzmán's 2012 master's thesis in Indo American Linguistics awarded by the [Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social](https://ciesas.edu.mx/) and *Vocabulario Mixe de Totontepec* (Totontepec Mixe vocabulary), compiled by Alvin Schoenhals and Louise C. Schoenhals and published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in 1965.
This commit was developed as part of a project for [Computational Linguistics](https://jnw.domains.swarthmore.edu/ling073/syllabus.php) at [Swarthmore College](https://swarthmore.edu). We feel that this language is suitable for merge with "testing" status, but further verification/improvements by native speakers would be very helpful.
co-authored-by: Elizabeth Resendiz <[email protected]>
For ⟨ae⟩, we used to use the Latin [[aI]] phoneme, which sounds like
/ae/. Call that phoneme [[aE]] for us and introduce a separate [[aI]]
one, which sounds more like /ai/ (since Sindarin has both, and they’re
supposed to sound different, though Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings
notes that there is nothing closely corresponding to ⟨ae⟩ in English and
that it may be pronounced like ⟨ai⟩). Furthermore, for ⟨oe⟩, just remove
the TODO – the Latin phoneme is called [[OI]] but sounds more like /oe/
than /oi/, so it’s actually just fine for our purposes. Finally, the
⟨ui⟩ diphthong is copied from Finnish, just like in Quenya.
Both are copied from the Finnish phonemes, since Finnish was a major
inspiration for Quenya. This means that the ⟨iu⟩ diphthong is a
“falling” one – according to Appendix E of The Lord of the Rings, this
is the original pronunciation, but by the Third Age (the time in which
The Lord of the Rings is set) it had become a “rising” one, so I may
change the phoneme later, not sure.
Also, inherit the Elvish phonemes from Latin, because Esperanto doesn’t
have /y/. (Quenya doesn’t need that – ⟨y⟩ is a consonant there – so
maybe I’ll separate their phonemes at some point. For now, Latin works
well enough for both as far as I can tell.)
This prepares the languages of Quenya and Sindarin, setting up their
infrastructure without declaring a lot of rules yet – just enough for
“Eä” (a Quenya word, but I can’t think of a similarly simple one for
Sindarin). Phonemes are inherited from Esperanto for now.