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International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

iso

ISO publishes romanization standards under several numbers — ISO 9 (Cyrillic), ISO 233 (Arabic), ISO 259 (Hebrew), ISO 843 (Greek), ISO 3602 (Japanese), and ISO 7098 (Chinese). These are the standards cited in academic publishing and library science.

Systems
30
With test vectors
29
Source scripts
17
Destination
Latn
Years
1984–2001
Languages
24

Publication timeline

Systems by decade.

  • 1980s 2
  • 1990s 9
  • 2000s 19

Source scripts covered

17 scripts.

  • Arabic Arab 3 systems
  • Bengali (Bangla) Beng 3 systems
  • Cyrillic Cyrl 1 system
  • Devanagari (Nagari) Deva 7 systems
  • Georgian (Mkhedruli and Mtavruli) Geor 1 system
  • Greek Grek 2 systems
  • Gujarati Gujr 1 system
  • Gurmukhi Guru 1 system
  • Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) Hang 2 systems
  • Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana) Hrkt 1 system
  • Katakana Kana 1 system
  • Malayalam Mlym 1 system
  • Oriya (Odia) Orya 1 system
  • Sinhala Sinh 1 system
  • Tamil Taml 1 system
  • Telugu Telu 1 system
  • Thai Thai 2 systems

Systems

All 30 transliteration systems.