{"ok":true,"sas_version":"1.0","title":"Swifin Akoose Orthography Standard","adoption_principle":"If you can type English on your device, you can type Akoose.","positioning":"Swifin Edition is a simplified digital orthography for Akoose designed for universal typing, digital communication and AI interoperability. It complements the established Akoose orthography (aligned with the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages) and preserves mappings to traditional forms.","rules":[{"id":1,"title":"One simple spelling system","body":"Every Swifin Edition sound has a predictable Latin representation. Prefer one mapping per traditional symbol; document and use it consistently."},{"id":2,"title":"No mandatory diacritics","body":"No accents, tone marks, or specialist characters are required for ordinary communication. Where tone changes meaning, prefer context; store pronunciation/tone in the linguistic layer underneath."},{"id":3,"title":"Make conversion deterministic","body":"Traditional ⇄ Swifin conversion is a software service, not an LLM guess. Forward (traditional → Swifin) is deterministic. Reverse may return candidates when ambiguous."},{"id":4,"title":"Never change grammar to resemble English","body":"Simplify orthography only — not Akoose morphology, noun classes, word order, idioms, or cultural concepts."},{"id":5,"title":"Formally specify Swifin Edition","body":"SAS defines characters, digraphs, capitalization, punctuation, word boundaries, apostrophes, borrowings, numbers, and mappings to the established orthography."}],"mappings":[{"traditional":"ŋ","swifin":"ng","notes":"velar nasal","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"Ŋ","swifin":"Ng","notes":"velar nasal (capital)","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ɲ","swifin":"ny","notes":"palatal nasal","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"Ɲ","swifin":"Ny","notes":"palatal nasal (capital)","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ɛ","swifin":"ee","notes":"open-mid front vowel","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ɔ","swifin":"oo","notes":"open-mid back vowel","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ʃ","swifin":"sh","notes":"voiceless postalveolar fricative","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ɣ","swifin":"gh","notes":"voiced velar fricative","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ə","swifin":"e","notes":"schwa → e (lossy)","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ǝ","swifin":"e","notes":"schwa (alt) → e (lossy)","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ɨ","swifin":"i","notes":"close central → i (lossy)","reverse_ambiguous":true},{"traditional":"ʉ","swifin":"u","notes":"close central rounded → u (lossy)","reverse_ambiguous":true}],"endpoints":{"transliterate":"POST /api/public/akoose/transliterate","spec":"GET /api/public/akoose/orthography"}}