code: def syllabify_ipa(self, word):
          
          word = word[1:-1]
          word = ''.join(l for l in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', word) if unicodedata.category(l) != 'Mn')
  
          return self.syllabify_ssp(word)
docs: Parses IPA string
          :param word: word to be syllabified