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README.md

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-# SinoPy: Python Library for Handling Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Language Data
+# SinoPy: Python Library for quantitative tasks in Chinese historical linguistics
 
-This is intended as a plugin for LingPy, or an addon, however, you define "plugin". The library gives utility functions that prove useful to handle Chinese data in a very broad context, raning from Chinese character readings up to proposed readings in Middle Chinese and older stages of the language.
+[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/30593438.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/30593438)
+![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/sinopy.svg)
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+SinoPy is an attempt to provide useful functionality for users working with Chinese dialects and Sino-Tibetan language data and struggling with tasks like converting characters to Pinyin, analysing characters, or analysing readings in Chinese dialects and other SEA languages. 
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+If you use the library in your research, please quote it as:
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+> List, Johann-Mattis (2018): SinoPy: Python Library for quantitative tasks in Chinese historical linguistics. Version 0.3.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. DOI: https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/30593438
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+This is intended as a plugin for LingPy, or an addon. The library gives utility functions that prove useful to handle Chinese data in a very broad context, ranging from Chinese character readings up to proposed readings in Middle Chinese and older stages of the language.
 
 ## Quick Usage Examples