Armenian-Surname-Normalizer
VladTepes33/Armenian-Surname-Normalizer
Phonetic normalization of Armenian surnames (Latin script) in PHP — trigram indexing + proximity scoring for fuzzy search over diaspora archives.
Summary
A PHP library for phonetic normalization of Armenian surnames transcribed in Latin script, designed to handle inconsistent transliteration from diaspora archives. It applies a 10-step normalization process (lowercase, accent removal, nasal/phonetic digraph conversion, prefix/suffix stripping, etc.) to produce a canonical form, enabling fuzzy search across historical records.