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This transliteration system was adopted as an amendment to ISO 233:1984. It is used mainly in library context, and was introduced because ISO 233 was not meeting the indexing purposes, which are essential for the consistency of library catalogs. According to ISO 233-2(1993), Arabic words are vocalized prior to romanization.
Romanization is often termed "transliteration", but this is not technically correct. [citation needed] Transliteration is the direct representation of foreign letters using Latin symbols, while most systems for romanizing Arabic are actually transcription systems, which represent the sound of the language, since short vowels and geminate consonants, for example, does not usually appear in ...
DIN 31635 is a Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) standard for the transliteration of the Arabic alphabet adopted in 1982. It is based on the rules of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG) as modified by the International Orientalist Congress 1935 in Rome.
This categories lists the various romanization systems used in any language that either: . is usually written in the Arabic script (including the Arabic language itself),; or was usually written in that script, before the conversion of its orthography to the Latin script (for which the romanization became a transliteration standard for reading historical texts that were written in that ...
ISO 233-2:1993 (Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters — Part 2: Arabic language — Simplified transliteration) ISO 233-3:1999 (Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters — Part 3: Persian language — Simplified transliteration) ISO 259:1984 (Transliteration of Hebrew characters into Latin characters)
The Arabic chat alphabet, Arabizi, [1] Arabeezi, Arabish, Franco-Arabic or simply Franco [2] (from franco-arabe) refer to the romanized alphabets for informal Arabic dialects in which Arabic script is transcribed or encoded into a combination of Latin script and Arabic numerals.
The Arabic script should be deducible from its transliteration unambiguously and without necessarily understanding the meaning of the Arabic text. The reverse should also be possible when the Arabic script is fully diacritized or vowelled (i.e. muxakkal with kasrah, fatHat', Dammat', xaddat', tanwiin and other Harakaat.).
Randall Barry (ed.) ALA-LC Romanization Tables U.S. Library of Congress, 1997, ISBN 0-8444-0940-5. (One of the few printed books with lists of romanizations) U.S. Library of Congress Romanization Tables in PDF format; UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems; Unicode Transliteration Guidelines Archived 2009-03-28 at the Wayback Machine