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American Library Association – Library of Congress (ALA-LC)

alalc

ALA-LC romanization tables are the dominant standard in North American library cataloging. Developed jointly by the American Library Association and the Library of Congress, they prescribe the form used in MARC records and LCSH authority files.

Systems
55
With test vectors
53
Source scripts
18
Destination
Latn
Years
1997–2017
Languages
31

Publication timeline

Systems by decade.

  • 1990s 32
  • 2010s 23

Source scripts covered

18 scripts.

  • Arabic Arab 3 systems
  • Bengali (Bangla) Beng 2 systems
  • Cyrillic Cyrl 12 systems
  • Devanagari (Nagari) Deva 9 systems
  • Ethiopic (Geʻez) Ethi 4 systems
  • Khutsuri (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri) Geok 2 systems
  • Georgian (Mkhedruli and Mtavruli) Geor 2 systems
  • Greek Grek 2 systems
  • Gujarati Gujr 2 systems
  • Gurmukhi Guru 2 systems
  • Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) Hang 1 system
  • Katakana Kana 2 systems
  • Malayalam Mlym 2 systems
  • Oriya (Odia) Orya 2 systems
  • Sinhala Sinh 2 systems
  • Tamil Taml 2 systems
  • Telugu Telu 2 systems
  • Thaana Thaa 2 systems

Systems

All 55 transliteration systems.