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Google Translate, a free online tool providing UN transliteration of Modern Greek. Also comes as application; Transliterate.com, a free online tool providing transliteration of Ancient Greek; Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts, tables in pdf format by Thomas T. Pedersen
The transcription table is based on the first edition (1982) of the ELOT 743 transcription and transliteration system created by ELOT and officially adopted by the Greek government. The transliteration table provided major changes to the original one by ELOT, which in turn aligned to ISO 843 for the second edition of its ELOT 743 (2001).
The most common English form of an Ancient Greek name or term may fall into any of three groups: . Latinization. This is the traditional English way of representing most Greek names in English and is well-represented in the naming of Wikipedia articles: Jesus and Uranus (not Iēsoûs or Ouranós), Alexander and Byzantium (not Aléxandros or Byzántion), Plato and Apollo (not Plátōn or ...
Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus trans-+ liter-) in predictable ways, such as Greek α → a , Cyrillic д → d , Greek χ → the digraph ch , Armenian ն → n or Latin æ → ae . [1]
The names presented are in Classical Greek spelling, specifically of the Attic dialect, scientific transliteration of Classical Greek, standard Modern Greek, the United Nations transliteration for Modern Greek, and the Modern Greek pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
The guidelines at present suggest that if an Anglicised name is used for the article title, the Greek name should be transliterated using ISO 843 in the article text. As I understand it, there are two versions of ISO 843: a like-for-like reversible transliteration (with bars over the ō from omega and the ī from eta) and a more phonetic ...
The English name Jesus derives from the Late Latin name Iesus, which transliterates the Koine Greek name Ἰησοῦς Iēsoûs. In the Septuagint and other Greek-language Jewish texts, such as the writings of Josephus and Philo of Alexandria , Ἰησοῦς ( Iēsoûs ) is the standard Koine Greek form used to translate both of the Hebrew ...
The transliteration of Greek names follows Latin transliteration of Ancient Greek; modern transliteration is different, and does not distinguish many letters and digraphs that have merged by iotacism.