vankatum
Reliable Armenian hyphenation — a syllabification engine that breaks consonant clusters, keeps the ու digraph and the յ glide whole, and inserts the epenthetic schwa ը. For the web and for print.
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The API
Existing Armenian hyphenators wrap the same 1,428 Liang patterns and only break before a single consonant between vowels. vankatum is a from-scratch syllabification engine built from the Armenian hyphenation rules, so it handles clusters, digraphs, glides, and the schwa.
hyphenate(word, options?)Hyphenate a single word, inserting the hyphen string at each break point.
syllabify(word, options?)Split a word into its hyphenation fragments (letter-preserving).
breakPoints(word, options?)Return the codepoint offsets where the word may be split, left to right.
hyphenateText(text, options?)Insert soft hyphens at every legal break in running text; non-Armenian content passes through verbatim.
syllabifyWithSchwa(word, variant?)Syllabify with the epenthetic schwa ը materialised — the orthographic form, for teaching and validation.
tokenize(word, orthography?)Classify a word into units (vowel, consonant, separator), merging digraphs and glides.
Orthography variants
- Eastern (reformed)
- Reformed (Abeghyan) orthography. The default; glide-vowel sequences are spelled with the յ glide.
- Western (classical)
- Classical (Mashtotsian) orthography. Adds the vowel digraphs եա and եօ as single nuclei.