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blib/lib/Lingua/NO/Syllable.pm

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statement	31	32	96.8
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condition	1	2	50.0
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pod	0	2	0.0
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package Lingua::NO::Syllable;
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use feature 'unicode_strings';

require Exporter;

use Unicode::Normalize;

our @ISA    = qw/ Exporter /;
our @EXPORT = qw/ syllable syllables /;

our @VOWELS = qw( a e i o u y æ ø å );

=encoding utf-8

=head1 NAME

Lingua::NO::Syllable - Count the number of syllables in Norwegian words.

=head1 VERSION

Version 0.04.

=cut

our $VERSION = '0.04';

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use Lingua::NO::Syllable;

    my $count = syllables( 'Tyrannosaurus' ); # 5, because:
                                              # Tyr-ann-o-sau-rus

=head1 DESCRIPTION

C estimates the number of syllables in
the C<$word> passed to it. It's an estimate, because the algorithm is quick
and dirty, non-alpha characters aren't considered etc. Don't expect this
module to give you a 100% correct answer.

As the Norwegian and the Danish languages are quite similar, at least written,
this module might work for the Danish language as well.

=cut

sub syllable {
    return syllables( @_ );
}

sub syllables {
    my $word = shift // '';

    # Remove surrounding spaces.
    $word =~ s/^\s+//;
    $word =~ s/\s+$//;

    # If the word is one character long, consider it to contain only one
    # syllable.
    return 1 if ( length($word) == 1 );

    # Lowercase the word.
    $word = lc( $word );

    # Normalize the word, i.e. convert accented characters to their normalized
    # representation.
    $word = NFD( $word );

    # Create an array of the word's characters.
    my @chars = split( //, $word );

    # The basic rule is that the number of syllables in a word equals the
    # number of vowels.
    my $syllables = 0;

    foreach my $vowel ( @VOWELS ) {
        foreach my $char ( @chars ) {
            if ( $vowel eq $char ) {
                $syllables++;
            }
        }
    }

    # Certain vowel combinations doesn't classify as "syllable separator".
    foreach ( qw(ai au ay ei eu ey oi ou oy øi øu øy æi æu æy åi åu åy) ) {
        my $occurences = $word =~ m/$_/g;
        $syllables -= $occurences;
    }

    # Return
    return $syllables;
}

1;

=head1 ACCENTED CHARACTERS

Accented characters, like é, à etc., are normalized (see L)
before the number of syllables are calculated.

=head1 SEE ALSO

=over 4

=item * L

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

Tore Aursand, C<<  >>

=head1 BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to the web interface at L

=head1 SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Lingua::NO::Syllable

You can also look for information at:

=over 4

=item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

L

=item * CPAN Ratings

L

=item * Search CPAN

L

=back

=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2015 Tore Aursand.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a
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L

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