ALALC · 2012

Manchu Romanization Table (2012)

Authority

alalc

Year

2012

Source script

Mongolian Mong · 145

Destination script

Latin Latn · 215

Language

Manchu

ALA-LC Manchu Romanization Table, 2012 version (no earlier versions). The printed table gives each letter in its isolated, initial, medial and final forms; Manchu is a cursive script and all positional forms of a letter share one Unicode codepoint, so each row encodes one rule. The before-vowel variant letters of the printed table are distinct letters of the script and carry distinct codepoints: k (1) before a, o, and ū / k (2) before e, i, and u; likewise g (1)/(2), h (1)/(2), t (1)/(2), d (1)/(2), and f (3) before a and e only versus f. The letters and digraphs used in foreign words (kʻ, gʻ, hʻ before a and o; ts, dz, ž, sy, cy, jy per Chinese pinyin values) are shown in the table in isolated form. The Unicode correspondence follows the standard Mongolian block model: shared Mongolian letters, the Sibe letterforms that coincide with the Manchu forms, and the five Manchu-specific codepoints (Manchu I, KA, RA, FA, ZHA); the three foreign-letter forms kʻ gʻ hʻ correspond to the Todo KA/GAA/HAA codepoints, and ts, dz, ž to the Sibe TSA/ZA/ZHA codepoints.

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