DIN 31635

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DIN 31635 is a standardized system for the transliteration of Arabic script into the Latin alphabet, widely used in German-speaking academia.

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DIN 31635 canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf DIN standard
romanization system
transliteration standard
appliesTo Arabic script
basedOn scientific Orientalist tradition
compatibleWith ISO-based academic Arabic transliteration practices
countryOfOrigin Germany
designGoal language-independent representation of Arabic
one-to-one mapping between Arabic and Latin characters
unambiguous representation of Arabic letters
differsFrom ALA-LC romanization of Arabic
UNGEGN Arabic romanization system
fieldOfUse Arabic studies
Islamic studies
Semitic linguistics
library cataloging
scientific publications
fullName DIN 31635 Umschrift des arabischen Alphabets
languageCommunity German-speaking academia
primarilyUsedIn Austria
Germany
Switzerland
publisher DIN German Institute for Standardization
surface form: Deutsches Institut für Normung
standardizes transliteration of Arabic consonants
transliteration of Arabic diacritics
transliteration of Arabic vowels
transliteration of hamza
transliteration of ʿayn
transliterates Arabic letter hamza as ʾ
Arabic letter ġayn as ġ
Arabic letter šīn as š
Arabic letter ʿayn as ʿ
Arabic letter ḍād as ḍ
Arabic letter ḏāl as ḏ
Arabic letter ḫāʾ as ḫ
Arabic letter ṣād as ṣ
Arabic letter ṭāʾ as ṭ
Arabic letter ẓāʾ as ẓ
Arabic long vowel ā as a with macron
Arabic long vowel ī as i with macron
Arabic long vowel ū as u with macron
usedBy Arabist
surface form: German Arabists

German Islamicists
German libraries
usesAlphabet Latin alphabet
usesDiacritics caron
dot below
macron
understroke
writingSystemType reversible transliteration

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aleph transliterationSystem DIN 31635
Ali transliterationSystem DIN 31635
Nabi transliterationSystem DIN 31635
Habib transliterationSystem DIN 31635