DMG

DMG is an application that aims to give ease to orientalists, arabists and Islamic scholars in the German-speaking area by providing automatic transliteration.

The app is currently deployed on PythonAnywhere (https://transliteration.eu.pythonanywhere.com). Try it out now!

Local deployment

git clone https://github.com/theRealProHacker/dmg.git
pip install -r requirements.txt
py app.py

Now navigate to the localhost URL provided (http://localhost:5000)

Features

• Generally letter replacement
• Hyphenation of particles wa-, fa-, sa-, bi-, li-, ka-, al-
• Sun letter assimilation الشَمس: aš-šams
• Detection of idafah and transliteration of ta marbutah as either "t" or "h"/"" accordingly:
  • ‎ مَكتَبَةُ كَبيرَة: maktaba kabīra or maktabah kabīrah
  • ‎ but مَكتَبَةُ الأُستاذِ: maktabat al-ustāḏ
• Consideration of hamzatul wasl
  • ‎ انْكَسَرَ: inkasara
  • ‎ الَّذينَ: allaḏīna
  • ‎ اخرُج: uḫruǧ
  • ‎ فَانتَقَلَ: fa-ntaqala
  • ‎ هُم الكُتّاب: hum ul-kuttāb
  • ‎ عَن الْكِتابُ: ʿan il-kitāb
• Inseration of missing alifs: هَذَا: hāḏā
• Removal of silent letters: قَلوا: qalū
• Nisba as ī: al-ʿarabī
• Many different (boolean) settings
  • whether the text should be transliterated in pause or not
  • whether ta marbutah should be transliterated as h or not
  • whether diphthongs should be transliterated as ai/au or ay/aw
  • whether geminated half vowels should be transliterated iyy/uww or īy/ūw
  • whether iyy/uww at the end should always become ī/ū
  • whether a hamza in the first position should be transliterated
  • whether the personal suffixes -hu and -hi should be transliterated as they are pronounced
• Automatic vocalization

Contributing

Please don't hesitate to raise an issue or to make a pull request. More information for contributing can be found here

License

The software is licensed under CC BY-NC except for the directories arab_tools and data which are licensed under GPL v3. However, the license for data/ner-gold-standard is in that directory.

Reception

"The program seems almost perfect"

"Great work, congratulations!"

"I want to congratulate you and thank you. Many scientists and students of Islamic(-theologic) studies will profit greatly from your work"

Bachelor thesis

This project is part of my bachelor thesis that will be published soon.