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  "targetLanguage": null,
  "targetScript": "ipa",
  "scriptCode": "IPA",
  "profileIds": ["ipa-eastern", "ipa-western"],
  "aliases": {},
  "profiles": {
    "ipa-eastern": {
      "label": "Eastern Armenian IPA (broad phonemic, Tier 1)",
      "domain": "phonemic",
      "authority": "Standard Eastern Armenian — broad phonemic transcription per Dum-Tragut 2009 and JIPA 2024. Tier 1: strict orthography → phoneme, no allophonic detail.",
      "scope": "Strict orthography → phoneme mapping. Excludes allophonic detail (stress, schwa epenthesis, regressive devoicing, word-final devoicing, post-nasal aspiration, suffix palatalization). See docs/LINGUISTIC_RATIONALE.md for the rule-by-rule rationale.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Jasmine Dum-Tragut, Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian, London Oriental and African Language Library 14, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009",
          "kind": "scholarly-system",
          "year": 2009
        },
        {
          "title": "Seyfarth, Dolatian, Guekguezian, Kelly & Toparlak (2024). Armenian (Yerevan Eastern and Beirut Western). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 54(1): 445–478",
          "kind": "scholarly-system",
          "year": 2024,
          "url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100323000130"
        },
        {
          "title": "Hossep Dolatian, Armenian Phonology and Phonetics (Glottothèque lecture series, 2022)",
          "kind": "scholarly-system",
          "year": 2022
        },
        {
          "title": "Bert Vaux, The Phonology of Armenian, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998",
          "kind": "scholarly-system",
          "year": 1998
        }
      ]
    },
    "ipa-western": {
      "label": "Standard Western Armenian IPA (broad phonemic, Tier 1)",
      "domain": "phonemic",
      "authority": "Standard Western Armenian — broad phonemic transcription per JIPA 2024 and Dolatian 2022. Standard Western retains aspiration on թ ք փ ց չ.",
      "scope": "Strict orthography → phoneme mapping with W1 voicing collapse. Excludes Western-specific allophonic detail (progressive devoicing, schwa epenthesis, sibilant-adjacent deaspiration, յու → ʏ post-consonant). See docs/LINGUISTIC_RATIONALE.md for the rule-by-rule rationale.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Seyfarth, Dolatian, Guekguezian, Kelly & Toparlak (2024). Armenian (Yerevan Eastern and Beirut Western). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 54(1): 445–478",
          "kind": "scholarly-system",
          "year": 2024,
          "url": "https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100323000130"
        },
        {
          "title": "Hossep Dolatian, Armenian Phonology and Phonetics (Glottothèque lecture series, 2022)",
          "kind": "scholarly-system",
          "year": 2022
        },
        {
          "title": "Bert Vaux, The Phonology of Armenian, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998",
          "kind": "scholarly-system",
          "year": 1998
        },
        {
          "title": "Luc Baronian, On the diachrony of Armenian stops (in Sayeed & Vaux, eds.), 2017",
          "kind": "scholarly-system",
          "year": 2017
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}