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The precise system was issued along with the general system in 1939. A transliteration in the precise system could be converted to the general system by doing the following: [7] Removing parenthesised character; Replacing ʽ and hʽ by h; Removing length and tone markings; Removing ḥ, which corresponds to ะ /ʔ/, which may be viewed as a ...
The international standard ISO 11940 is a transliteration system, preserving all aspects of written Thai adding diacritics to the Roman letters. Its extension ISO 11940-2 defines a simplified transcription reflecting the spoken language. It is almost identical to RTGS. Libraries in English-speaking countries use the ALA-LC Romanization.
Thai จันทร์ (spelled chanthr but pronounced chan /tɕān/ because the th and the r are silent) "moon" (Sanskrit चन्द्र chandra) Thai phonology dictates that all syllables must end in a vowel, an approximant, a nasal, or a voiceless plosive. Therefore, the letter written may not have the same pronunciation in the initial ...
ISO 11940 is an ISO standard for the transliteration of Thai characters, published in 1998, updated in September 2003, and confirmed in 2008. An extension to this standard, named ISO 11940-2 , defines a simplified transcription based on it.
ISO 11940:1998 (Transliteration of Thai) ISO 11940-2:2007 (Transliteration of Thai characters into Latin characters — Part 2: Simplified transcription of Thai language) ISO/TR 11941:1996 (Transliteration of Korean script into Latin characters, withdrawn in 2013) ISO 15919:2001 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Cœdès transliteration of Thai; I. ISO 11940; ISO 11940-2; R. Royal Thai General System of Transcription
Transliteration, which adapts written form without altering the pronunciation when spoken out, is opposed to letter transcription, which is a letter by letter conversion of one language into another writing system. Still, most systems of transliteration map the letters of the source script to letters pronounced similarly in the target script ...
The Thai language has many borrowed words from mainly Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and some Prakrit, Khmer, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, Arabic (in particular many Islamic terms) and English (in particular many scientific and technological terms). Some examples as follows: