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The international standard ISO 11940 is a transliteration system, preserving all aspects of written Thai adding diacritics to the Roman letters. Its extension ISO 11940-2 defines a simplified transcription reflecting the spoken language. It is almost identical to RTGS. Libraries in English-speaking countries use the ALA-LC Romanization.
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ISO 11940:1998 (Transliteration of Thai) ISO 11940-2:2007 (Transliteration of Thai characters into Latin characters — Part 2: Simplified transcription of Thai language) ISO/TR 11941:1996 (Transliteration of Korean script into Latin characters, withdrawn in 2013) ISO 15919:2001 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into ...
ISO 11940 is an ISO standard for the transliteration of Thai characters, published in 1998, updated in September 2003, and confirmed in 2008. An extension to this standard, named ISO 11940-2 , defines a simplified transcription based on it.
It uses ng for /ŋ/, as in English. It uses ch for /tɕʰ/ and /tɕ/, somewhat like English. It uses y for /j/, as in English. Final consonants are transcribed according to pronunciation, not Thai orthography. Vowels are transcribed in the position in the word where they are pronounced, not as in Thai orthography.
Thai borrowed a large number of words from Sanskrit and Pali, and the Thai alphabet was created so that the original spelling of these words could be preserved as much as possible. This means that the Thai alphabet has a number of "duplicate" letters that represent separate sounds in Sanskrit and Pali (e.g. the alveolo-palatal fricative ś ...
Transliteration is the process of representing or intending to represent a word, phrase, or text in a different script or writing system. Transliterations are designed to convey the pronunciation of the original word in a different script, allowing readers or speakers of that script to approximate the sounds and pronunciation of the original word.
This is a guideline for the transliteration (or Romanization) of writings from Indic languages and Indic scripts for use in the English-language Wikipedia. It is based on ISO 15919, and is applicable to all languages of south Asia that are written in Indic scripts.