Pig Latin

Challenge Difficulty: Medium | Estimated completion time: ~20 minutes

Write a function that converts a sentence into pig latin.

Rules for converting to pig latin:

• For words that begin with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u), add “way”.
• Otherwise, move all letters before the first vowel to the end and add “ay”.
• For simplicity, no punctuation will be present in the inputs.

Examples

#Example 1
pigLatinSentence("this is pig latin")
output = "isthay isway igpay atinlay"
 
#Example 2
pigLatinSentence("wall street journal")
output = "allway eetstray ournaljay"

Notes

All letters will be in lowercase.

Solution

Python

def pig_latin_sentence(sentence: str) -> str: """Convert a sentence to pig latin. Args: sentence: Input sentence in lowercase Returns: Pig latin version of the sentence """ vowels = "aeiou" words = sentence.split() pig_latin_words = [] for word in words: if word[0] in vowels: pig_latin_words.append(word + "way") else: first_vowel_index = 0 for index, char in enumerate(word): if char in vowels: first_vowel_index = index break pig_latin_words.append(word[first_vowel_index:] + word[:first_vowel_index] + "ay") return " ".join(pig_latin_words) if __name__ == "__main__": print(pig_latin_sentence("this is pig latin")) # isthay isway igpay atinlay print(pig_latin_sentence("wall street journal")) # allway eetstray ournaljay

Output