Template:Translit/Documentation

Purpose

Similar to Template:JP but more generalized.

Usage

Parameters:

• 1: Original text
• 2: Transliteration
• 3: Language name
• 4 (optional): Meaning (applied as tooltip)
• link: Wikipedia article name (defaults to "{{{3}}} language")

Recommended romanization schemes

Language	Recommended scheme
Arabic	EALL
Avestan	Hoffman
Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin
Egyptian	Gardiner
Greek	ALA-LC, but with diacritical markings for acute, circumflex, grave, and diaeresis
Hebrew	Modified version of SBL's Academic transliteration system (with spirantization) to account for modern research regarding the pronunciation of the vowel sheva (SBL transliteration: ĕ) in the authoritative Tiberian pronunciation: Usual: ă Before yodh: ĭ Before aleph, he, heth, and ayin: the same as the vowel after that consonant, but with a breve
Korean	Revised Romanization
Sanskrit	IAST
Slavic languages using Cyrillic	ISO/R 9:1968

Examples

• {{translit|عفريت|ʿifrīt|Arabic}} → User:Billy Mitchell/sandbox/Template:translit
• {{translit|Κέρβερος|Kérberos|Greek}} → User:Billy Mitchell/sandbox/Template:translit
• {{translit|שָּׂטָן|śāṭān|Hebrew‎}} → User:Billy Mitchell/sandbox/Template:translit
• {{translit|मित्र|mitrá|Sanskrit}} → User:Billy Mitchell/sandbox/Template:translit[[Category:Template Documentation