• GlotScript-Resource: provides a resource displaying the writing systems for various languages.

• GlotScript-Tool: determines the script (writing system) of input text using ISO 15924.

What writing system is each language written in?

Example:

See metadata folder for more languages.

It's a Python library that detects the script (writing system) of text based on ISO 15924.

• Unicode version: 15.0.0
• The codes were sourced from Wikipedia ISO_15924.
• Unicode ranges were extracted from Unicode Character Database.

Special codes

• Zinh code is the Unicode script property value of characters that may be used with multiple scripts, and that inherit their script from a preceding base character. In some cases, we opted to integrate parts of the Zinh code (e.g. ARABIC FATHATAN..ARABIC HAMZA BELOW, ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALEF) into a different block.
• Zyyy code is the Unicode script for "Common" characters.
• Zzzz code is for Unicode script for "uncoded" script.

from pip

pip3 install GlotScript

from git

pip3 install GlotScript@git+https://github.com/cisnlp/GlotScript

Script Detection

from GlotScript import sp

sp('これは日本人です')
>> ('Hira', 0.625, {'details': {'Hira': 0.625, 'Hani': 0.375}, 'tie': False, 'interval': 0.25})

sp('This is Latin')[:1]
>> ('Latn', 1.0)

sp('මේක සිංහල')[0]
>> 'Sinh'

Script Separation

from GlotScript import sc 

sent = "Hello Salut سلام 你好 こんにちは שלום مرحبا"
sc(sent)
>> {
   "Latn":"Hello Salut     ",
   "Hebr":"     שלום ",
   "Arab":"  سلام    مرحبا",
   "Hani":"   你好   ",
   "Hira":"    こんにちは  "
}

If you use any part of this our resource or tool in your research, please cite it using the following BibTex entry.

@article{kargaran2023glotscript,
  title={GlotScript: A Resource and Tool for Low Resource Writing System Identification},
  author={Kargaran, Amir Hossein and Yvon, Fran{\c{c}}ois and Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.13320},
  year={2023}
}