Kata

Transliteration is the phonetic translation of one language to another. This is useful when learning a language such as Hebrew, Chinese, or Japanese.

In this kata, you will make a simple English-to-Japanese transliterator in the Hiragana (ひらがな) alphabet.

Here are two examples, transliterated using the complete solution:

The pronunciation of each character can be found on this website, but I've made an array of pattern-to-pattern transliterations in the preloaded code. Stick to those patterns alone. Do not make more patterns.

In the case of an untransliterable match (Such as capital letters! Don't match capitals!), one should simply leave in the english characters, drop one character, and try to match again:

The matches should be done with the first valid match in the list given.

Note that this is not a complete or ideal transliteration.