ISO 843 is a system for the
transliteration
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and/or
transcription of
Greek characters into
Latin characters
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ISO 843:1997
International Organization for Standardization
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in 1997. The transcription table is based on the first edition (1982) of the ELOT 743 transcription and transliteration system created by ELOT and officially adopted by the Greek government. The transliteration table provided major changes to the original one by ELOT, which in turn aligned to ISO 843 for the second edition of its ELOT 743 (2001).
1997 edition
Transliteration (Type 1)
Exceptions:
*double vowels are transliterated as au. The transliteration could also be "av" or "af", according to https://web.archive.org/web/20110809113951/http://www.passport.gov.gr/elot-743.html
*double vowels are transliterated as eu
*double vowels are transliterated as ou
Transcription (Type 2)
ISO 843 also includes a system for transcription, referred to as "Type 2" in the protocol.
See also
* List of ISO standards
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*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 ...
*Romanization of Greek
Romanization of Greek is the transliteration ( letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the Latin alphabet.
History
The conventions for writing and romanizing Ancient Greek and Modern Greek differ ...
Notes and references
External links
Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts
-A collection of writing systems and transliteration tables, by Thomas T. Pedersen. PDF reference charts include ISO 843.
Lingua::Translit
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module covering a variety of writing systems. Transliteration according to several standards including ISO 843 and DIN 31634 for Greek.
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