Cuneiform book cuneifier

This is a converter from transliterated syllables from the pp. 102-103 of the book cuneiform (ISBN: 978-0-7141-1188-9), implemented in OpenGRM Thrax. It is licensed under Apache 2.0 License.

How to use

Prerequisite: copy file byte.grm from your Thrax installation into the repository directory; if Thrax is installed in /usr/local, the Makefile will do it automatically.

Create cuneiform-latin.far file by typing make in the repository directory. Then type either

make test

or

thraxrewrite-tester --far=cuneiform-latin.far --rules=Cuneifier

to test the cuneifier.

References

Thrax introduction

• http://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/GRM/ThraxQuickTour

Cuneiform sign lists

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cuneiform_signs
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sumerian/List (the better one)
• http://www.sumerisches-glossar.de/download/SignListNeoAssyrian.pdf (the best)

Thrax examples

• https://github.com/pardelapawel/thrax-grammars/
• https://github.com/maciej-nowak/ATFL-State-Finite-Machines
• https://github.com/MaciejWanat/Corrector
• https://github.com/adrmal/PJN-PTX/tree/master/Dictionary

Miscellaneous

• https://weaveworld.org/android/sumerian/index.html (Android app for Sumerian proverbs (with Cuneiform))