Bavarian Translator

Translate German text into the Bavarian dialect using rule-based transformations. This package focuses on idiomatic and phonetic conversions to simulate spoken Bavarian in a readable written form.

Requirements

• PHP 8 or higher

Example

https://timanthonyalexander.de/translator

Installation

composer require timanthonyalexander/german-to-bavarian

Usage

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use TimAlexander\Bavarian\Translator;

$translator = new Translator();

$text = 'Ich habe heute einen guten Tag und möchte etwas erzählen.';
$bavarian = $translator->translate($text);

echo $bavarian; // I hob heit oanen guadn Toag und möchta etwas eazähln.

Features

• Word-level replacements (e.g. ich → i, wir → mia)
• Suffix transformations (e.g. -lich → -le, -chen → -al)
• Prefix transformations (e.g. ge- → g', ver- → fa)
• Context-insensitive global replacements (e.g. nicht → ned)

Configuration

You can adjust or extend the replacement rules by modifying the following constants in the Translator class:

• SUB_REPLACEMENTS_GLOBAL
• SUB_REPLACEMENTS_START
• SUB_REPLACEMENTS_ENDINGS
• REPLACEMENTS_ENTIRE_WORDS

These arrays define how parts of words or whole words should be transformed during translation.