The
international standard
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ISO 233 establishes a system for
romanization of Arabic
The romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spoken Arabic in the Latin script. Romanized Arabic is used for various purposes, among them transcription of names and titles, cataloging Arabic language works, language ed ...
and
Syriac Syriac may refer to:
*Syriac language, an ancient dialect of Middle Aramaic
*Sureth, one of the modern dialects of Syriac spoken in the Nineveh Plains region
* Syriac alphabet
** Syriac (Unicode block)
** Syriac Supplement
* Neo-Aramaic languages a ...
. It was supplemented by
ISO 233-2 in 1993.
1984 edition
The table below shows the consonants for the
Arabic language
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.
ISO 233-2:1993
ISO 233-2:1993 is an
ISO
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schema for the simplified transliteration of Arabic characters into Roman characters.
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.
ISO 233-2 is used in
French libraries and in
North Africa
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n libraries, and is recommended by
ISSN
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for establishing key titles when cataloguing serials.
ISO 233-3:1999
ISO 233-3:1999 is dedicated to "Persian language – Simplified transliteration".
ISO/R 233:1961
ISO/R 233 is an earlier standard that has been withdrawn.
See also
*
Arabic transliteration
*
DIN 31635 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 ...
*
List of ISO transliterations
List of ISO standards for transliterations and romanizations:
Romanizations
* ISO 3602:1989 (Romanization of Japanese (kana script))
* ISO 7098:2015 (Romanization of Chinese)
Transliterations
* ISO 9:1995 (Transliteration of Cyrillic charac ...
External links
Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts-A collection of writing systems and transliteration tables, by Thomas T. Pedersen. PDF reference charts include ISO 233.
References
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Romanization of Arabic
Syriac language
Syriac alphabet
Neo-Aramaic languages
Semitic writing systems