Template:Translit/Documentation

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Purpose

Similar to Template:JP but more generalized.

Usage

Parameters:

  • 1: Language name
  • 2: Original text
  • 3: Transliteration
  • 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

Examples

  • {{translit|Arabic|عفريت|ʿifrīt}} → Lua error in Module:Translit at line 816: Language with code "Arabic" is not defined.
  • {{translit|Greek|Κέρβερος|Kérberos}} → Lua error in Module:Translit at line 816: Language with code "Greek" is not defined.
  • {{translit|Hebrew‎|שָּׂטָן|śāṭān}} → Lua error in Module:Translit at line 816: Language with code "Hebrew" is not defined.
  • {{translit|Sanskrit|मित्र|mitrá}} → Lua error in Module:Translit at line 816: Language with code "Sanskrit" is not defined.
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