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International standard

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 ISO 233 establishes a system for Arabic transliteration

Arabic transliteration

Different approaches and methods for the romanization of Arabic exist. They vary in the way that they address the inherent problems of rendering written and spoken Arabic in the Latin alphabet; they also use different symbols for Arabic phonemes that do not exist in English or other European...

 (Romanization

Romanization

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). It has been completed by ISO 233-2 in 1993.

1984 edition

The table below shows the consonants for the Arabic language

Arabic language

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.

Arabic	Latin		Unicode				Notes
			Hex		Dec
ء			02CC		716		hamza without carrier - low vertical line
ٔ◌			02C8		712		hamza above carrier - vertical line (high)
ٕ◌							hamza below carrier (= alif)
ا			02BE		702		modifier letter right half ring
ب
ت
ث			1E6E	1E6F	7790	7791
ج			01E6	01E7	486	487
ح			1E24	1E25	7716	7717
خ			H+0331	1E96	H+817	7830
د
ذ			1E0E	1E0F	7694	7695
ر
ز
س
ش			0160	0161	352	353
ص			1E62	1E63	7778	7779
ض			1E0C	1E0D	7692	7693
ط			1E6C	1E6D	7788	7789
ظ			1E92	1E93	7826	7827
ع			02BF		703		modifier letter left half ring
غ			0120	0121	288	289
ف
ق
ك
ل
م
ن
ه
ة			T+0308	1E97	T+776	7831	combining diaeresis
و
ي
ى			1EF2	1EF3	7922	7923

ISO 233-2:1993

ISO 233-2:1993 is an ISO 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

France

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 libraries, in North African

North Africa

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 libraries, and is recommended by ISSN for establishing key titles when cataloguing serials.

See also

• Arabic transliteration
• DIN 31635
  DIN 31635
  DIN 31635 is a Deutsches Institut für Normung standard for the transliteration of the Arabic alphabet adopted in 1982. It is based on the rules of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft as modified by the International Orientalist Congress 1936 in Rome...
  
  
• List of ISO transliterations

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.