armenian-transliteration
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Multi-standard Armenian transliteration (BGN/PCGN, ISO 9985, Hübschmann-Meillet, ALA-LC, Russian geographic profiles, Russian proper names, IPA)
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{
"targetLanguage": null,
"targetScript": "ipa",
"scriptCode": "IPA",
"profileIds": ["ipa-eastern", "ipa-western"],
"aliases": {},
"profiles": {
"ipa-eastern": {
"label": "Eastern Armenian IPA (broad phonemic, Tier 1)",
"domain": "phonemic",
"authority": "Standard Eastern Armenian — broad phonemic transcription per Dum-Tragut 2009 and JIPA 2024. Tier 1: strict orthography → phoneme, no allophonic detail.",
"scope": "Strict orthography → phoneme mapping. Excludes allophonic detail (stress, schwa epenthesis, regressive devoicing, word-final devoicing, post-nasal aspiration, suffix palatalization). See docs/LINGUISTIC_RATIONALE.md for the rule-by-rule rationale.",
"sources": [
{
"title": "Jasmine Dum-Tragut, Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian, London Oriental and African Language Library 14, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009",
"kind": "scholarly-system",
"year": 2009
},
{
"title": "Seyfarth, Dolatian, Guekguezian, Kelly & Toparlak (2024). Armenian (Yerevan Eastern and Beirut Western). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 54(1): 445–478",
"kind": "scholarly-system",
"year": 2024,
"url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100323000130"
},
{
"title": "Hossep Dolatian, Armenian Phonology and Phonetics (Glottothèque lecture series, 2022)",
"kind": "scholarly-system",
"year": 2022
},
{
"title": "Bert Vaux, The Phonology of Armenian, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998",
"kind": "scholarly-system",
"year": 1998
}
]
},
"ipa-western": {
"label": "Standard Western Armenian IPA (broad phonemic, Tier 1)",
"domain": "phonemic",
"authority": "Standard Western Armenian — broad phonemic transcription per JIPA 2024 and Dolatian 2022. Standard Western retains aspiration on թ ք փ ց չ.",
"scope": "Strict orthography → phoneme mapping with W1 voicing collapse. Excludes Western-specific allophonic detail (progressive devoicing, schwa epenthesis, sibilant-adjacent deaspiration, յու → ʏ post-consonant). See docs/LINGUISTIC_RATIONALE.md for the rule-by-rule rationale.",
"sources": [
{
"title": "Seyfarth, Dolatian, Guekguezian, Kelly & Toparlak (2024). Armenian (Yerevan Eastern and Beirut Western). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 54(1): 445–478",
"kind": "scholarly-system",
"year": 2024,
"url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100323000130"
},
{
"title": "Hossep Dolatian, Armenian Phonology and Phonetics (Glottothèque lecture series, 2022)",
"kind": "scholarly-system",
"year": 2022
},
{
"title": "Bert Vaux, The Phonology of Armenian, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998",
"kind": "scholarly-system",
"year": 1998
},
{
"title": "Luc Baronian, On the diachrony of Armenian stops (in Sayeed & Vaux, eds.), 2017",
"kind": "scholarly-system",
"year": 2017
}
]
}
}
}