ALA-LC ROMANIZATION TABLES

The links below are to the scanned text of the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association, with the following exceptions:

• The table for Chinese is a revised table reflecting the Library's conversion to Pinyin romanization in 2000.

• The table for Kurdish is a revised table that replaces both the Kurdish (in Perso-Arabic Script) table (p. 114-155) and the Kurdish (1946) section of the Non-Slavic Languages (in Cyrillic Script) table (p. 148)

The 1997 edition of the tables is also available for purchase in book form from the Cataloging Distribution Service.

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