Page:Judeo-Arabic romanization table.pdf/1

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

JUDEO-ARABIC

This table was approved in Feb., 2011, by the Library of Congress and the Committee for Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM) of the American Library Association.

Judeo-
Arabic
 Roman  Examples
‫א‬ ʼ ‫ אל‬/ʼl/ “the”

‫ אבן‬/ʼbn/ “son”

‫ב‬, ‫בּ‬ b ‫ בנין‬/bnyn/ “sons”

‫ ארבע‬/ʼrb‘/ “four”

ּג, ג g ‫ גרק‬/grq/ “he suffocates” (cf. Standard /ghariqa/)
ּג׳, ג ‫ ג׳ינא‬/ḡynʼ/ “we came” (cf. Standard Arabic /jīnā/)
‫ד‬ d ‫ דם‬/dm/ “blood” (cf. Standard Arabic /dam/)

‫ דכרת‬/dkrt/ “she remembered” (cf. Standard Arabic /dhakarat/)

‫ד׳‬ ‫ ד׳הב‬/ ḏhb/ “gold”
‫ה‬ h ‫ הום‬/hwm/ “they”
‫̈ה‬ ‫ מדינ̈ה‬/mdynḧ/ “city (of)”

1

1/31/2011