syllabreak

Multilingual library for accurate and deterministic hyphenation and syllable counting without relying on dictionaries.

Supported Languages

• 🇬🇧 English (eng)
• 🇷🇺 Russian (rus)
• 🇷🇸 Serbian Cyrillic (srp-cyrl)
• 🇷🇸 Serbian Latin (srp-latn)
• 🇹🇷 Turkish (tur)
• 🇬🇪 Georgian (kat)
• 🇩🇪 German (deu)
• 🇫🇷 French (fra)
• 🇷🇴 Romanian (ron)
• 🇪🇸 Spanish (spa)
• 🇵🇹 Portuguese (por)
• 🇵🇱 Polish (pol)
• 🏛️ Latin (lat)

Usage

Auto-detect language

When no language is specified, the library automatically detects the most likely language:

>>> from syllabreak import Syllabreak
>>> s = Syllabreak("-")
>>> s.syllabify("hello")
'hel-lo'
>>> s.syllabify("здраво")  # Serbian Cyrillic
'здра-во'
>>> s.syllabify("привет")  # Russian
'при-вет'

Specify language explicitly

You can specify the language code for more predictable results:

>>> s = Syllabreak("-")
>>> s.syllabify("problem", lang="eng")  # Force English rules
'pro-blem'
>>> s.syllabify("problem", lang="srp-latn")  # Force Serbian Latin rules
'prob-lem'

This is useful when:

• The text could match multiple languages
• You want consistent rules for a specific language
• Processing text in a known language

Language Detection

The library returns all matching languages sorted by confidence:

>>> from syllabreak import Syllabreak
>>> s = Syllabreak()
>>> s.detect_language("hello")
['eng', 'srp-latn', 'tur']  # Matches English, Serbian Latin and Turkish
>>> s.detect_language("čovek")
['srp-latn', 'eng', 'tur']  # Serbian Latin has highest confidence due to č

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