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#
#  This file contains rules for phonetic encoding of
#  Spanish words in SAMPA standard
#
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# Rules change from a sound (one or more letters) or a category
# to another sound or category, in a certain context.
#
# Category names can have only one letter are usually uppercase.
#
# Contexts must contain a "_" symbol indicating where the replacement
# takes place; they may also contain letters, categories, and the special
# symbols ( ) (to enclose optional parts), ^ (word beginning), or $ (word end)
#
# Rules can only change letters/sounds to sounds, and categories to categories.
# If a category is to be changed to another category, they should contain the 
# same number of characteers. Otherwise the second category will have its last
# letter repeated until it has the same length as the first (if it is
# shorter), or characters in the second category that don't match
# characters in the first will be ignored.
#
# Don't use regex metacharacters (except for the parentheses, ^, and $) in
# context specifications, category names, or sound codes.



<Rules>
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# Categories
############

# vowels, long, short
U=áéíóú
V=aeiou
F=aou
W=ei

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## Rules
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# remove accents
U/V/_

# strong "rr" and soft "r" in Spanish.
r/rr/^_

# make these first to avoid interactions with 
# rules handling "c" or producing "x".
ch/tS/_
x/tS/_

# occlusive k sound for strong (F) and weak (W) vowels
# and /T/ sound of "c" with weak vowels (cero,cielo)
qu/k/_W
qu/ku/_F
qü/ku/_
q/k/_
c/T/_W
c/k/_F
c/k/_

# gutural fricative (girafa,jarra) vs plosive (gato,guerra) g/j sound in Spanish
j/x/_
g/x/_W
gu/g/_W
gu/gu/_
gü/gu/_

# other sounds
ph/f/_
ll/L/_

z/T/_
h//_
v/b/_
i/j/_V
y/j/_
ñ/J/_

</Rules>


<Exceptions>
software sofwar
hardware xardwar
whisky uiski
shakespeare tSespir
</Exceptions>