The Grand Unified Syllabary project has the primary objective
to map the natural (non-composition based) syllabaries of
Unicode onto a common linguistic frame of reference. The target
frame of reference is a CVCT table (consonant-vowel-consonant-tone)
applying IPA rules for the phonemic mapping of the symbols.
Such a table that defined the component properties of syllables,
it is assumed, would serve as a reference for:
* syllabic character classes
* regular expression languages
* transliteration between syllabaries and other writing systems
* phonetic based and script independent input methods
GUS furthers the development of "Syllables.txt" data file
introduced with Perl 5.6. Orthography experts are still in great
need for the Yi, Canadian Aboriginal, Cherokee, Katakana and
Hiragana syllabaries.
More information, and an development email list can be found on
the project homepage:
http://syllabary.sourceforge.net/
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