DIN 31635

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DIN 31635 is a standardized system for the transliteration of Arabic script into the Latin alphabet, widely used in German-speaking academia.

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DIN 31635 canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf DIN standard
romanization system
transliteration standard
appliesTo Arabic script
basedOn scientific Orientalist tradition
compatibleWith ISO-based academic Arabic transliteration practices
countryOfOrigin Germany
designGoal language-independent representation of Arabic
one-to-one mapping between Arabic and Latin characters
unambiguous representation of Arabic letters
differsFrom ALA-LC romanization of Arabic
UNGEGN Arabic romanization system
fieldOfUse Arabic studies
Islamic studies
Semitic linguistics
library cataloging
scientific publications
fullName DIN 31635 Umschrift des arabischen Alphabets
languageCommunity German-speaking academia
primarilyUsedIn Austria
Germany
Switzerland
publisher Deutsches Institut für Normung
standardizes transliteration of Arabic consonants
transliteration of Arabic diacritics
transliteration of Arabic vowels
transliteration of hamza
transliteration of ʿayn
transliterates Arabic letter hamza as ʾ
Arabic letter ġayn as ġ
Arabic letter šīn as š
Arabic letter ʿayn as ʿ
Arabic letter ḍād as ḍ
Arabic letter ḏāl as ḏ
Arabic letter ḫāʾ as ḫ
Arabic letter ṣād as ṣ
Arabic letter ṭāʾ as ṭ
Arabic letter ẓāʾ as ẓ
Arabic long vowel ā as a with macron
Arabic long vowel ī as i with macron
Arabic long vowel ū as u with macron
usedBy German Arabists
linked to: Arabist

German Islamicists
German libraries
usesAlphabet Latin alphabet
usesDiacritics caron
dot below
macron
understroke
writingSystemType reversible transliteration

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aleph transliterationSystem DIN 31635
Ali transliterationSystem DIN 31635
Nabi transliterationSystem DIN 31635
Habib transliterationSystem DIN 31635