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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
93
With test vectors
91
Source scripts
43
Destination
Latn
Years
1997–2025
Languages
67

Publication timeline

Systems by decade.

  • 1990s 33
  • 2010s 53
  • 2020s 7

Source scripts covered

43 scripts.

  • Arabic Arab 12 systems
  • Armenian Armn 1 system
  • Balinese Bali 1 system
  • Batak Batk 1 system
  • Bengali (Bangla) Beng 2 systems
  • Cham Cham 1 system
  • Cherokee Cher 1 system
  • Coptic Copt 1 system
  • Cyrillic Cyrl 14 systems
  • Devanagari (Nagari) Deva 9 systems
  • Deseret (Mormon) Dsrt 1 system
  • 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
  • Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) Hani 1 system
  • Hebrew Hebr 2 systems
  • Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana) Hrkt 1 system
  • Javanese Java 1 system
  • Katakana Kana 2 systems
  • Khmer Khmr 1 system
  • Lao Laoo 1 system
  • Latin Latn 1 system
  • Lepcha (Róng) Lepc 1 system
  • Limbu Limb 1 system
  • Malayalam Mlym 2 systems
  • Mongolian Mong 1 system
  • Meitei Mayek (Meithei, Meetei) Mtei 1 system
  • Myanmar (Burmese) Mymr 1 system
  • Ol Chiki (Ol Cemet’, Ol, Santali) Olck 1 system
  • Oriya (Odia) Orya 2 systems
  • Shan Shan 1 system
  • Sinhala Sinh 2 systems
  • Tamil Taml 2 systems
  • Telugu Telu 2 systems
  • Tifinagh (Berber) Tfng 2 systems
  • Thaana Thaa 2 systems
  • Thai Thai 1 system
  • Tibetan Tibt 1 system
  • Vai Vaii 1 system

Systems

All 93 transliteration systems.