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Spem transliteration revolves around the overloading of 'h' and ' as an escape character. Letters are transformed as follows:
Whenever one of the sequences on the right appears literally in Spem text, a ' is inserted in the middle.
For fun and on the very small chance that it's useful, here's Python code to transliterate:
def utf8_to_ascii(spem):
return spem \
.replace('ih', "i'h") \
.replace('oh', "o'h") \
.replace('uh', "u'h") \
.replace('ah', "a'h") \
.replace('sh', "s'h") \
.replace('th', "t'h") \
.replace('ng', "n'g") \
.replace('ɪ', 'ih') \
.replace('ɵ', 'oh') \
.replace('ʌ', 'uh') \
.replace('ɑ', 'ah') \
.replace('ʃ', 'sh') \
.replace('θ', 'th') \
.replace('ŋ', 'ng')
And to reverse it:
def ascii_to_utf8(spem):
return spem \
.replace('ng', 'ŋ') \
.replace('th', 'θ') \
.replace('sh', 'ʃ') \
.replace('ah', 'ɑ') \
.replace('uh', 'ʌ') \
.replace('oh', 'ɵ') \
.replace('ih', 'ɪ') \
.replace("n'g", 'ng') \
.replace("t'h", 'th') \
.replace("s'h", 'sh') \
.replace("a'h", 'ah') \
.replace("u'h", 'uh') \
.replace("o'h", 'oh') \
.replace("i'h", 'ih')