Transliteration is the process of transferring a word from the alphabet of one language to another. Transliteration helps people pronounce words and names in foreign languages. It is also useful for non-Latin script language speakers to use in their own language, as typing in Latin is more convenient.
Examples :
Input : namaskaara Output :Transliterating from English(Latin) to Hindi(Devanagari) Input : namaskaara Output :
Transliterating from English(Latin) to Telugu(Telugu)
To implement transliteration of Latin to Indian scripts we will use the indic-transliteration module.
Installation :
pip install indic-transliteration
We will use the transliterate() method of the sanscript class of the indic-transliteration module.
transliterate()
Syntax : transliterate(text, romanization_style, script)
Parameters :
test : The text totransliterated
romanization_style : The following romanization styles are available :
- HK = ‘hk’
- IAST = ‘iast’
- ITRANS = ‘itrans’
- OPTITRANS = ‘optitrans’
- KOLKATA = ‘kolkata’
- SLP1 = ‘slp1’
- VELTHUIS = ‘velthuis’
- WX = ‘wx’
script : The script to be transliterated into. The following scripts are available :
- Bengali
- Devanagari
- Gujarati
- Kannada
- Malayalam
- Telugu
- Tamil
- Oriya
- Gurmukhi/ Punjabi/ Panjabi
Returns : A string of the transliterated text.
Example 1:Transliterating from Latin to Devanagari.
# import the modulefrom indic_transliteration import sanscriptfrom indic_transliteration.sanscript import transliterate # the text to be transliteratedtext = "Apa sabhii kaa yahaan svaagat hai." # printing the transliterated textprint(transliterate(text, sanscript.ITRANS, sanscript.DEVANAGARI)) |
Output :
Example 2:Transliterating from Latin to Gujarati.
# import the modulefrom indic_transliteration import sanscriptfrom indic_transliteration.sanscript import transliterate # the text to be transliteratedtext = "Suprabhaata" # printing the transliterated textprint(transliterate(text, sanscript.IAST, sanscript.GUJARATI)) |
Output :
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