Pig Latin

pigLatin.js

function translate(str) {
  var consonants = ["B", "C", "D", "F", "G", "H", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "V", "X", "Z", "W", "Y"];
  var vowels = ["A", "E", "I", "O", "U"];
  var cnct = "";
  for (var i=0;i<consonants.length;i++){
    if (str[0] == consonants[i].toLowerCase()){
      cnct = cnct.concat(str[0]);
      str = str.slice(1,str.length);
    }
  }
  if (cnct === ""){
    for (var j=0;j<vowels.length;j++){
      if (str[0] == vowels[j].toLowerCase()){
        cnct = "w";
      }
    }
  }
  str = str.concat(cnct).concat("ay");
 return str;
}
translate("algorithm");

PigLatin.markdown

Pig Latin

Translates the provided string to pig latin. Pig Latin takes the first consonant (or consonant cluster) of an English word, moves it to the end of the word and suffixes an "ay". If a word begins with a vowel it justs add "way" to the end.

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