Transliteration

Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one system of writing into another. Transliteration attempts to be lossless, so that an informed reader should be able to reconstruct the original spelling of unknown transliterated words. To achieve this objective transliteration may define complex conventions for dealing with letters in a source script which do not correspond with letters in a goal script. Romaji is an example of a transliterating method.

Issues in transliterating particular languages

Some languages and scripts present particular difficulties to transcribers. These are discussed on separate pages.

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• Ancient Near East
• Transliterating cuneiform languages
• Transliteration of ancient Egyptian (see also Egyptian hieroglyphs)
• hieroglyphic Luwian
• Avestan
• Brahmic family
• Devanagari: see IAST, Harvard-Kyoto, ITRANS
• Pali
• Tocharian
• Chinese language
• Pinyin
• Wade-Giles
• Bopomofo
• Greek language
• Greek alphabet
• List of Greek words with English derivatives
• Linear B
• Greeklish
• Japanese language
• Romaji Transliterating Japanese to Latin script
• Transcribing English to Japanese
• Cyrillization of Japanese
• Korean Language
• McCune-Reischauer
• Semitic languages
• Ugaritic alphabet
• Hebrew alphabet
• Romanization of Hebrew
• Arabic alphabet
• Arabic transliteration
• Arabic Chat Alphabet
• Slavic languages written in the Cyrillic or Glagolitic alphabets
• Transliteration of Russian into English
• Volapuk encoding
• Romanization of Ukrainian
• Thai language
• Royal Thai General System of Transcription