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The Buckwalter Arabic transliteration was developed at Xerox by Tim Buckwalter in the 1990s. It is an ASCII only transliteration scheme, representing Arabic orthography strictly one-to-one, unlike the more common romanization schemes that add morphological information not expressed in Arabic script. Thus, for example, a waw will be transliterated as w regardless of whether it is realized as a vowel [u:] or a consonant [w]. Only when the waw is modified by a hamza ( ؤ) does the transliteration change to &. The unmodified letters are straightforward to read (except for maybe *=dhaal and E=ayin, v=thaa), but the transliterations of letters with diacritics and the harakat take some time to get used to, for example the nunated i`rab -un, -an, -in appear as N, F, K, and the sukun ("no vowel") as o. Ta marbouta ة is p.
| Arabic alphabet |
ﺍ |
ﺏ |
ﺕ |
ﺙ |
ﺝ |
ﺡ |
ﺥ |
ﺩ |
ﺫ |
ﺭ |
ﺯ |
ﺱ |
ﺵ |
ﺹ |
ﺽ |
ﻁ |
ﻅ |
ﻉ |
ﻍ |
ﻑ |
ﻕ |
ﻙ |
ﻝ |
ﻡ |
ﻥ |
هـ |
ﻭ |
ﻱ |
| DIN 31635 |
ā |
b |
t |
ṯ |
ǧ |
ḥ |
ḫ |
d |
ḏ |
r |
z |
s |
š |
ṣ |
ḍ |
ṭ |
ẓ |
ʿ |
ġ |
f |
q |
k |
l |
m |
n |
h |
w/ū |
y/ī |
| Buckwalter |
A |
b |
t |
v |
j |
H |
x |
d |
* |
r |
z |
s |
$ |
S |
D |
T |
Z |
E |
g |
f |
q |
k |
l |
m |
n |
h |
w |
y |
- hamza
- lone hamza: '
- hamza on alif: >
- hamza on wa: &
- hamza on ya: }
- alif
- madda on alif: |
- alif al-wasla: {
- dagger alif: `
- alif maqsura: Y
- harakat
- fatha: a
- damma: u
- kasra: i
- fathatayn: F
- dammatayn: N
- kasratayn K
- shadda: ~
- sukun: o
- ta marbouta: p
- tatwil: _
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