Transliteration Character Table

KP Mawhood · February 2016

In specific transliteration, I've yet to come across a comprehensive table of characters – that includes multiple standards. Is there anything like this already available? (Wikipedia is good, but limited by writing system). Linked below is an sample that I'm working on, with IJMES as a starting point (Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3zbkkn877547qy/IJMES_Transliteration_Char.xls?dl=0

Any comments or tips would be amazing. I'm aware there must be a body of resources out there, but it's often difficult to know where to start. If there are some good things available, I'll happily use those instead.

Thanks in advance!

1) Any critiques, incl. vocabulary / useful fields?
2) Are there any good resources you'd recommend? For example…

Transliteration standards / tables
Unicode tables, incl. component characters
Similar tools / tables

3) Would anyone find this useful to have available?

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye · February 2016

http://transliteration.eki.ee/ by Thomas T. Pedersen is a good place to start. It has quite a few romanization systems organized by script: ALA-LC, DIN, UNGEGN, ISO, KNAB, etc.

http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/transforms/ or CLDR also has a few of those.

The ALA-LC tables are publicly available at www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
and the UNGEGN romanization systems at http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/

It might be a bit tricky to have the ISO or DIN romanization systems in a public tables, they are quite expensive to acquire. For the DIN romanization systems, there’s a book with a lot of them for much cheaper than each separately: Umschriften in Bibliotheken http://www.beuth.de/de/publikation/umschriften-in-bibliotheken/124371274.

Dave Crossland · February 2016

Katy, I'm curious what this kind of thing is useful for..?

KP Mawhood · February 2016

@Denis Moyogo Jacquerye Thanks Denis, this is fantastic! Thomas' website is particularly comprehensive, with a very good and consistent selection of romanization systems.

I'll confirm with our editors regarding DIN and ISO, I'm still in discussion with them on the extent of their requirements. It's extremely helpful to know that there is such a resource for many of the DIN systems. Thank you again.

@Dave Crossland Text specifications, the more we can premeditate the better.

John Hudson · February 2016

Katy, the Wikipedia entry on romanization contains some useful links, and the entries for transliteration of specific scripts can also be quite good, e.g. Devanagari.

I suspect Pim at Brill might have some tables he would be willing to share, documenting Brill's practices. Their needs are likely similar to your own.

KP Mawhood · February 2016

Thanks John. That's a good idea, Pim is very helpful and the resources on Brill's site are extremely useful. I have frequented it for several particularly troublesome manuscript requirements.

zoghal · June 2016

persian/arabic tools:
https://github.com/font-store/Persian-Font-Testing-Page
https://github.com/font-store/RitaFontTester

and for Unicode tables, incl. component characters for persian can check this font https://github.com/font-store/font-farboad

for persian/arabic tables https://github.com/w3c/alreq

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