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