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+import csv
+
+#function converts word to lower case and provides special rules for irish and turkish since they are not covered by the book
+def toLower(input_string : str, language: str) -> str:
+  irish_vowels = "AEIOUÁÉÍÓÚ"
+  tilda_ord = 771
+#the following condition for irish uses a conditional lamda function which looks for the following rules 
+# - include a hyphen if the first alphabet is T or N and its followed by an irish vowel. It also checks for 
+# ord 771 since that means that there is a tild on the second alphabet since that could be achieved by either a singular unicode or by 2 unicodes
+# this is the reason we only check at postion[2] since if there is a tilda at [2] it means there can't be a vowel at [1]
+
+  if(language.find("ga") + 1):
+    irish_lower = lambda input_string : (input_string[0] + "-" + input_string[1:]).lower() \
+                if (input_string[0] == "t" or input_string[0] == "n") and irish_vowels.find(input_string[1]) + 1 \
+                and ord(input_string[2]) != tilda_ord  \
+                else input_string.lower()
+
+    return irish_lower(input_string)
+
+# Turkish and Azerbaijani follow similar rules to standard covertion with just a different i
+  elif((language.find("tr") + 1) or (language.find("az") + 1)):
+    return input_string.lower().replace("i", "ı")
+
+  else:
+    return input_string.lower()
+
+# Basic Testing
+with open("tests.tsv") as file:
+    tsv_file = csv.reader(file, delimiter="\t")
+    for line in tsv_file:
+      assert toLower(line[0], line[1]) == line[2], "Test Failed for the word " + line[0] 
+    print("All the test cases where successful!!")
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