Program To Determine If The Characters Are a Part of The Hawaiian Alphabet in Python Assignment Solution.

# Hawaiian Language Pronunciation Guide

# Alicia Lopez

# This is a program that determines if words are valid in the Hawaiian language;

# as well as providing how to pronounce the entered word.

# This function determines if the characters are a part of the Hawaiian alphabet.

def checkWord(word):

    characters = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'p', 'k', 'h', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'w', ' ', '\'']

    for c in word:

        if c not in characters:

            return False

    return True

# This function shows how to pronounce the given word.

def pronounceWord(word):

    pronounce = {}

    pronounce['p'] = "p"

    pronounce['k'] = "k"

    pronounce['h'] = "h"

    pronounce['l'] = "l"

    pronounce['m'] = "m"

    pronounce['n'] = "n"

    pronounce['p'] = "p"

    pronounce['a'] = "ah"

    pronounce['e'] = "eh"

    pronounce['i'] = "ee"

    pronounce['o'] = "oh"

    pronounce['u'] = "oo"

    pronounce['\''] = "\'"

    pronounce[' '] = " "

    result = []

    prev = None

    part = ""

    vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u']

    for c in word:

        if c == 'w':

            if prev is None or prev == 'a' or prev == 'o' or prev == 'u':

                part += "w"

            elif prev == 'i' or prev == 'e':

                part += "v"

        else:

            part += pronounce[c]

        if c in vowels:

            result.append(part)

            part = ""

        prev = c

    if len(part) > 0:

        result.append(part)

    return str.join("-", result)

# The main function that utilizes an interactive loop.

def main():

    while True:

        word = input("Enter a word to check if it is a valid Hawaiian word: ")

        if checkWord(word.lower()):

            print(word, "is a valid Hawaiian word and is pronounced as:")

            print(pronounceWord(word.lower()))

        else:

            print(word, "is a NOT valid Hawaiian word, please enter a VALID word to be pronounced")

        choice = input("Would you like to enter another word? Y/Yes or N/No? ")

        if choice[0].lower() == 'n':

            break

if __name__ == '__main__':

    main()