NAME

Lingua::AR::Tashkeel - Subroutines for handling Arabic Vowels and Vowel marks

SYNOPSIS

    use Lingua::AR::Tashkeel qw(strip prune fix);

    # Strip all short vowels
    strip('مَكَرُونَة'); ‎# => مكرونة
    # Heuristic for removing short vowels without causing ambiguity
    prune('فَتَّة');    ‎# => فتّة
    # Heuristic for fixing mixed up short and long vowels
    fix('ماحشي');    ‎# => مَحشي 

DESCRIPTION

Subroutines for working with Arabic long (حروف علة) and short vowels (حركات تشكيل)

METHODS AND ARGUMENTS

strip($string)

Strips away all Arabic short vowels (Tashkeel).

prune($string)

Heuristic for pruning the short vowels that a native speaker wouldn't write, as leaving them out wouldn't introduce ambiguity.

This is often preferable to strip, as Shaddas, or Dammas that indicate a passive verb are useful clues that one might want to keep.

fix($string)

Transliterating from a romanized representation of Arabic to actual Arabic script often gives incorrect results regarding short/long vowels.

This subroutine implements a heuristic for fixing such mix ups.

GIT REPOSITORY

http://github.com/athreef/Lingua-AR-TASHKEEL

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Ahmad Fatoum <athreef@cpan.org>, http://a3f.at

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2016 Ahmad Fatoum

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.