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startcodein/indicsoundex
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Indian language soundex package based on Santhosh Thottingal's algorithm.

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IndicSoundex
============

[](#indicsoundex)

Indian laguage soundex package based on Santhosh Thottingal's algorithm. For more info on algorithm check [here](http://thottingal.in/blog/2009/07/26/indicsoundex/)

Soundex is phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound as pronounced in English. This module implements Soundex algorithm for Engish as well as a modified version of soundex algorithm for Indian languages.

This include Indian major languages:

- Hindi (hi\_IN)
- Bengali (bn\_IN)
- Punjabi (pa\_IN)
- Gujarati (gu\_IN)
- Oriya (or\_IN)
- Tamil (ta\_IN)
- Telugu (te\_IN)
- Kannada (kn\_IN)
- Malayalam (ml\_IN)
- English (en\_US)

This can be extended to any language by including soundex character map for it.
Quick start
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[](#this-can-be-extended-to-any-language-by-including-soundex-character-map-for-itquick-start)

Installing using git

```
git clone https://github.com/startcodein/IndicSoundex.git

```

Installing using composer

```
composer require startcodein/indicsoundex:@dev

```

#### Generating soundex

[](#generating-soundex)

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