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characters - Part 3: Persian language — Transliteration
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Information and documentation — Transliteration of
Arabic characters into Latin characters —
Part 3:
Persian language — Transliteration
Information et documentation — Translittération des caractères arabes en caractères latins —
Partie 3: Persan — TranslittérationICS: 01.140.10
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Contents Page
Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................iv
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................v
1 Scope ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
2 Normative references ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
3 Terms and definitions ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
4 Transliteration tables ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
4.1 Table 1 — Consonants ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2
4.2 Vowels ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
4.2.1 Table 2a — Vowels – for fully reversible system .................................................................................. 4
4.2.2 Table 2b — Vowels – modified transliteration options .................................................................. 4
4.3 Arabic elements in the Persian language ......................................................................................................................... 5
4.3.1 Table 3 — Conventional signs .............................................................................................................................. 5
4.4 Table 4 — Different forms of hamzeh ................................................................................................................................6
4.5 Table 5 — Punctuation marks ................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.6 Table 6 — Persian numerals ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Annex A (normative) Different positional forms of characters ................................................................................................ 8
Annex B (normative) General principles ......................................................................................................................................................... 9
Bibliography .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................12
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Foreword
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iso/ foreword .html.This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46 Information and documentation.
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 233-3:1999), which has been technically
revised.The main changes compared to the previous edition are as follows:
— Added missing diacritical signs to the tables and corrected some errors elsewhere in the text. Added
distinction in transliteration between ا and آ. Changed transliteration of خ (table 1, row 9) and ض
(table 1, row 18), from ḵ to x and ż to z̤ respectively. Changed transliteration of tanvin (table 3, row
2) from ″ to ã.— Incorporated options for 3 “levels” of transliteration: strict, i.e. fully reversible (with and without
vowels); and a modified but not fully reversible system, which, for example, distinguishes in
transliteration when the characters و and ى function as long vowels or as consonants, and, in the
case of ى, other functions of the character.— Added hexadecimal character codes (ISO/IEC 10646 or Unicode) to all tables containing Persian
characters and transliterations and therefore omitted Annexes B and D, Annex C thus becoming
Annex B.— Added Terms and definitions section.
A list of all parts in the ISO 233 series can be found on the ISO website.
Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A
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Introduction
This part of ISO 233 is one of a series of International Standards, dealing with the conversion of
systems of writing. The aim of this part of ISO 233 and others in the series is to provide a means for
international communication of written messages in a form which permits the automatic transmission
and reconstitution of these, by men or machines. The system of conversion, in this case, must be
univocal and entirely reversible to allow for retransliteration.This means that consideration to phonetic and aesthetic matters or to certain national customs is not a
priority: all these considerations are, indeed, ignored by the machine performing the function.
This part of ISO 233 may be used by anyone who has a clear understanding of the system and is certain
that it can be applied without ambiguity. The result obtained will not give a correct pronunciation of
the original text in a person’s own language, but it will serve as a means of finding automatically the
original graphism and thus allow anyone who has knowledge of the original language to pronounce it
correctly. Similarly, one can only pronounce correctly a text written in, for example, English or Polish, if
one has a knowledge of English or Polish.The existence in Perso-Arabic script of short vowels and other diacritical marks, which are pronounced
but often not written somewhat complicates this reading of the text but as those with knowledge of the
language can read and mentally fill in the missing signs/sounds when reading the original script, so
they can with the transliterated version, e.g. the word پِدَر, which consists of 3 consonants and 2 short
vowels (transliteration: pedar) when written without short vowels would be پدر (transliteration: pdr).
To address the issue of short vowels and other signs that are unwritten, and the fact that some
characters perform more than one function (e.g. characters that can function as either a vowel or a
consonant), ISO 233-3 incorporates three levels: strict and fully reversible, univocal, with short vowels
only transliterated if written in the source text; strict and fully reversible, univocal, with short vowels
included for clarity, regardless of their presence or absence in the source text; and a modified version
of the system that while not fully reversible includes the short vowels and takes account of the different
functions performed by some characters (see 4.1 and 4.2 for further details).The adoption of this part of ISO 233 for international communication leaves every country free to
adopt for its own use a national standard which may be different, on condition that it is compatible
with this part of ISO 233. The system proposed herein should make this possible and be acceptable to
international use if the graphisms it creates are such that they may be converted automatically into the
graphisms used in any strict national systems.The adoption of national standards compatible with this part of ISO 233 will permit the representation,
in an international publication, of the morphemes of each language according to the customs of the
country where it is spoken. It will be possible to simplify this representation in order to take into
account the number of the character sets available on different kinds of machines.
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Information and documentation — Transliteration of
Arabic characters into Latin characters —
Part 3:
Persian language — Transliteration
1 Scope
This part of ISO 233 establishes a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of the Arabic
characters (often called Perso-Arabic script) used to write the Persian language. This simplification
of the stringent rules established by ISO 233:1984 is especially intended to facilitate the processing of
bibliographic information (e.g. catalogues, indices, citations, etc.).2 Normative references
The following normative documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute
provisions of this part of ISO 233. For dated references, subsequent amendments to, or revisions of,
any of these publications do not apply. However, parties to agreements based on this part of ISO 233
are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the normative
documents indicated below. For undated references, the latest edition of the normative document
referred to applies. Members of ISO and IEC maintain registers of currently valid International
Standards.ISO 233, Documentation — Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters
ISO 233-2, Information and documentation — Transliteration of Arabic characters into Latin characters —
Part 2: Arabic language — Simplified transliterationISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal coded character set (UCS)
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https:// www .iso .org/ obp— IEC Electropedia: available at https:// www .electropedia .org/
3.1
character
element of an alphabetical or other type of writing system that graphically represents a phoneme,
a syllable, a word or even a prosodical characteristic of a given language; it is used either alone
(for example, a letter, a syllabic sign, an ideographical character, a digit, a punctuation mark) or in
combination (such as an accent or a diacritical mark)Note 1 to entry: A letter having an accent or a diacritical mark, for example â, è, ö, is therefore a character in the
same way as a basic letter.3.2
vowel
a speech sound produced by unobstructed flow of air through the mouth
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3.3
consonant
a speech sound produced by complete or partial closure of the vocal tract
3.4
transliteration
process which consists of representing the characters (3.1) of an alphabetical or syllabic system of
writing by the characters of a conversion alphabet3.5
retransliteration
process whereby the characters (3.1) of a conversion alphabet are transformed back into those of the
converted writing system3.6
transcription
process whereby the sounds of a given language are noted by the system of signs of a conversion
language3.7
romanization
conversion of non-Latin writing systems to the Latin alphabet
4 Transliteration tables
“Hex” in the following tables refers to hexadecimal character codes in the standard ISO/IEC 10646
(Unicode).4.1 Table 1 — Consonants
The shaded rows, numbered 1b, 30c etc., provide for option three described above, a modified but not
fully-reversible transliteration. They reference the use of consonant characters as vowels (see also
4.2 vowels). Where full reversibility is required only the main numbered rows should be used and the
shaded rows ignored.Transliteration into Latin
No. Persian character Hex Hex
character
1 0627 â 00E2
1b ا 0627 Omit in word-initial position -
(see 4.2)
1c ا 0627 ā in word-medial or final posi- 0101
tion
2 ب 0628 b 0062
3 پ 067E p 0070
4 ت 062A t 0074
5 062B s̱ 0073+0331
6 ج 062C j 006A
7 چ 0686 č 010D
8 ح 062D ḥ 1E25
9 خ 062E x 0078
10 د 062F d 0064
11 0630 ẕ 1E95
12 ر 0631 r 0072
1) For the transliteration of hamzeh see 4.4.
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Transliteration into Latin
No. Persian character Hex Hex
character
13 ز 0632 z 007A
14 ژ 0698 ž 017E
15 س 0633 s 0073
16 ش 0634 š 0161
17 ص 0635 ṣ 1E63
18 ض 0636 z̤ 017C+0324
19 ط 0637 ṭ 1E6D
20 ظ 0638 ẓ 1E93
21 ع 0639 ‘ 02BB (2018)
22 غ 063A ġ 0121
23 ف 0641 f 0066
24 ق 0642 q 0071
25 06A9 k 006B
26 گ 06AF g 0067
27 ل 0644 l 006C
28 م 0645 m 006D
29 ن 0646 n 006E
30 و 0648 V 0076
30b 0648 ū when functioning as a long 016B
vowel
30c ُو 064F+0648 ow 006F+0077
ū when occurring in word-initial
30d او 0627+0648 016B
position
31 ه 0647 h 0068
32 ی 06CC Y 0079
32b ی 06CC ī when functioning as a long 012B
vowel
32c 0650+06CC ey 0065+0079
32d ی 06CC -ye when functioning as ez̤āfeh 0079+0065
(see note 8)
32e اى 0627+06CC ī when occurring in word-initial 012B
position
33 ى 06CC (0649) á when representing alif maqsu- 00E1
rah (in words of Arabic origin) *
For transliteration of alef with maddeh see 4.2; and with hamzeh see 4.4
02BB is recommended. Some transliterations use 2018 so this may be encountered
In the modified transliteration, this character should be transliterated as ‘v’ when functioning as a conso-
nant.In the modified transliteration, this character should be transliterated as ‘y’ when functioning as a conso-
nant.* The alif maqsurah is a feature of loan words and names of Arabic origin. It should have a different
Unicode encoding (0649) but in appearance it looks the same as the Persian ye (06CC) and the latter is
likely to occur in actual usage.Different position forms of Persian characters (initial, medial, final and separate) are shown in Annex A.
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4.2 Vowels
Generally, Persian words are written without short vowel signs. However, as the change of vowel sign
can bring about a different meaning (for example: پَر par = feather; پُر por = full), vowel signs may be
used intentionally whenever a difference in meaning is to be emphasized. In tables 2a and 3, both cases
are represented. However, often both the aforementioned examples will be written پر, transliterated
pr in the strict univocal system. In transliterati...
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