This is a summary of the use of
Morse code to represent alphabets other than
Latin
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.
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Morse code alphabet is very similar to the Latin alphabet. It uses one extra letter for Greek letter
and no longer uses the codes for Latin letters "J", "U" and "V".
The ''tonos'' is not transmitted in Morse code; the receiver can simply infer which vowels require one. The ''Greek diphthongs'' presented in the bottom three rows of the table are specified in old Greek Morse-code tables but they are never used in actual communication, the two vowels being sent separately.
Cyrillic
Cyrillic letters are represented using the representation of similar-sounding Latin letters (e.g. ,
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, , etc.). Cyrillic letters with no such Latin correspondence are assigned to Latin letters with no Cyrillic correspondence (e.g. ). The same correspondence was later used to create Russian national character sets
KOI-7 and
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The order and encoding shown uses the Russian national standard. The Bulgarian standard is the same except for the two letters (, ) given in parentheses: The Bulgarian language does not use
, while
is frequent, but missing in Russian standard Morse.
The letter
(
Yo) does not have an international Morse phonetic equivalent, with international used instead. Ukrainian Morse uses
instead of
,
instead of
, but also has
encoded as
, and has additional
(
Yi).
Hebrew
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letters are mostly represented using the Morse representation of a similar-sounding Latin letter (e.g. "Bet" ב≡B); however the representation for several letters are from a Latin letter with a similar shape (e.g. "Tet" ט ≡U, while "Tav" ת≡T). Though Hebrew Morse code is transcribed from right to left, the table below is transcribed from left to right as per the Latin letters in the table.
Arabic
Persian
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Devanagari
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is a left-to-right
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(alphasyllabary) widely used in the
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. The following telegraph code table is adapted from one given by
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,
where the Latin letters are encoded as per the International Morse code standard. Some variations on this code exist, and there have been some attempts to introduce other telegraph codes either to improve efficiency or to apply to more Indian languages.
[ Proposals for a telegraph code suitable for multiple Indian languages have been made as early as 1948, shortly after independence.]
Japanese
See Wabun code
is a form of Morse code used to send Japanese language in kana characters. Unlike International Morse Code, which represents letters of the Latin script, in Wabun each symbol represents a Japanese kana. For this reason, Wabun code is also someti ...
.
Chinese
See Chinese telegraph code
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Encoding and decoding
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.
Korean
See SKATS
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.
Thai
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