North Germanic Alphabets

North Germanic (modern) alphabet constants for JS. Danish, Faroese, Elfdalian, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish.

Motivation

While all north germanic languages use very similar set of sounds, they tend to use different letters to write them. For example Ø vs Ö, Æ vs Ä and the question of more medieval letters like Ð and þ. Simply put, I'd rather not copy-paste and format these any more.

Install

yarn add north-germanic-alphabets

Usage

The module offers three array exports per language: lower case, upper case and combination of both.

const {
  DANISH_AND_NORWEGIAN,
  ELFDALIAN,
  FAROESE,
  ICELANDIC,
  SWEDISH,
} = require('north-germanic-alphabets')

const { LOWER_CASE, UPPER_CASE, ALPHABET } = ICELANDIC

console.log(LOWER_CASE)
// ['a', 'á', 'b', 'd', 'ð', 'e', 'é', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'í', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'ó', 'p', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'ú', 'v', 'x', 'y', 'ý', 'þ', 'æ', 'ö']

console.log(UPPER_CASE)
// ['A', 'Á', 'B', 'D', 'Ð', 'E', 'É', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'Í', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'Ó', 'P', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'Ú', 'V', 'X', 'Y', 'Ý', 'Þ', 'Æ', 'Ö']


console.log(ALPHABET) // combined upper & lower case.

As Danish and Norwegian share the same alphabet, they are shipped both as common and separate imports.

const {
  DANISH_AND_NORWEGIAN,
  DANISH,
  NORWEGIAN
} = require('north-germanic-alphabets')

// They are all the same thing. Up to your preference which to import.

NORWEGIAN.LOWER_CASE.forEach(letter => console.log(letter))