A collection of transliteration and transcription tables for various writing systems.
2009-05-10: Updated Armenian.
2009-01-19: Another year almost passed without any work. I got some feedback on Rusyn and decided to do a fast update correcting all errors.
2008-02-25: Arabic updated. A follow-up to the optimized PDF problem earlier this month.
2008-02-08: New PDFs of Arabic and Macedonian. Well, the problem was with Adobe Reader 7 and below and optimized PDFs. Apparently Adobe Reader 8 was not affected. Anyway, I have uploaded larger versions without optimization – and they seem to work.
2008-02-04: There are some problems displaying some fonts in the newly updated Arabic and Macedonian documents. This only applies to Windows when using Adobe Reader. The problem does not occur in Mac OS X when using either Adobe Reader or Preview. I’m working on a solution, but it looks like a crossplatform issue which I thought shouldn’t happen when using PDF. I have taken the documents offline for the time being.
2008-01-27: Updated Arabic. Hopefully I’ve cleaned out all errors, but no promises…
2008-01-22: One year without any activity! To make up for this, two minor updates: Macedonian and Altay (Altai).
2007-01-20: Updated Altay.
2007-01-19: Updated Adyghe.
2007-01-16: Updated Macedonian and Georgian.
Due to the increased number of links pointing to this site – especially from Wikipedia – I will have to make the following points clear:
A big thank you to Eesti Keele Instituut for supporting this site.
Take a look at the Place Names Database – it’s an excellent resource for alternate and minority place names.
A thank you to everyone who provided comments and corrections.
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Language Script Revision Date Status Abaza Cyrillic 3.0 2007-01-14 Abkhaz Cyrillic 3.0 2007-01-14 Adyghe (Adyghian) Cyrillic 3.0 2007-01-19 Altay (Altai) Cyrillic 3.1 2008-01-22 Arabic Arabic 2.2 2008-02-25 Armenian Armenian 2.0 2009-05-09 UPDATED Avar Cyrillic 1.2 2004-06-08 Azerbaijani Cyrillic, Arabic 1.3 2004-06-27 Bashkir Cyrillic 1.2 2004-06-08 Belarusian (Belorussian) Cyrillic 1.3 2004-07-08 Bengali, Assamese & Manipuri Bengali 2.0 2005-07-21 Bulgarian Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-01 Buryat Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-01 Chechen Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-01 Chukchi Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-01 Chuvash Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-01 Crimean Tatar Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-02 Dargwa (Dargin) Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-02 Dungan Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-02 Erzya Mordvin (Mordva) Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-02 Eskimo – Yupik Cyrillic 1.2a 2002-10-03 Even Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-03 Evenki Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-03 Gagauz Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-03 Georgian Georgian 3.0 2007-01-16 Greek Greek 2.0a 2005-07-31 Gujarati Gujarati 2.0 2005-07-22 Hindi, Marathi & Nepali Devanagari 2.0 2005-07-20 Ingush Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-03 Kabardian Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-03 Kalmyk Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-06 Kannada Kannada 2.0 2005-07-26 Karachay-Balkar Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-06 Karakalpak Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-06 Kazakh Cyrillic, Arabic 1.4 2004-03-30 Khakass Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-14 Khanty Cyrillic 1.2 2002-10-14 Kirghiz Cyrillic, Arabic 1.1 2002-10-14 Komi (Komi Zyryan) Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-15 Komi-Permyak Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-14 Koryak Cyrillic 1.2 2002-10-14 Kumyk Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-15 Lakh Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-19 Lezgian (Lezgin) Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-19 Macedonian Cyrillic 2.2 2008-02-04 Malayalam Malayalam 2.0 2005-09-30 Mansi Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-15 Mari: Hill Mari, Meadow Mari Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-15 Moksha Mordvin (Mordva) Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-15 Moldovan (Moldavian) Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-15 Mongolian Mongolian, Cyrillic 2.0 2006-05-06 Nanai Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-15 Nenets Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-19 Nivkh Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-19 Nogay (Noghay) Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-20 Oriya Oriya 1 2006-03-06 Ossetian (Ossetic) Cyrillic 1.1 2002-10-20 Ottoman Turkish Arabic 1.3a 2002-10-04 Persian (Farsi) Arabic 1.1 2005-01-16 Russian Cyrillic 2.0 2005-04-25 Rusyn (Lemko & Vojvodinian) Cyrillic 2.0 2009-01-19 Selkup Cyrillic 1.1 2002-12-12 Serbian Cyrillic 2.0 2007-01-13 Sindhi Arabic, Devanagari 1.0 2003-04-22 Tabasaran Cyrillic 1.1 2002-12-16 Tajik Cyrillic 1.1 2002-12-18 Talysh Cyrillic 1.1 2003-01-10 Tatar Cyrillic 1.1 2003-01-12 Turkmen Cyrillic 1.1 2003-01-18 Tuvinian Cyrillic 1.1 2003-01-20 Udmurt Cyrillic 1.1 2003-01-20 Ukrainian Cyrillic 1.1a 2002-10-04 Uzbek Cyrillic, Arabic 1.1 2003-01-20 Yakut Cyrillic 1.1 2003-02-07 Yiddish Hebrew 1.2a 2002-10-04