Supported Translation Domains

This section specifies supported translation domain pairs and languages of origin for names to be translated with each domain pair.

Source and Target Translation Domains

The following table identifies the translations (target text domains) that Rosette Name Translator supports for each source text domain.

For each source domain, the target domains for each language and script combination are presented in a single row.

Translation. If the languages in the source domain and target domain do not match, Rosette Name Translator translates the name to the target language.

Language of Origin. For Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean, if the target language is English and the language of origin does not match the source language, Rosette Name Translator attempts to translate the name to its standard English representation. If the language of origin is the source language, Rosette Name Translator transliterates the name with the specified transliteration scheme. If the language of origin for the name object is unspecified (UNKNOWN), Rosette Name Translator guesses the language of origin. For the supported languages of origin for each domain pair, see Supported Languages of Origin.

Orthographic Enhancement. When the source and target domains match (the transliteration schemes are native), the translations are orthographic enhancements in the native script (vocalization in Arabic and Hebrew script languages, segmentation in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Thai).

Name Variants. When the target transliteration scheme is folk, Rosette Name Translator generates a list of variant representations of the name in Latin script.

Source Domain			Target Domain(s)
Script (ISO15924)	Language (ISO639-3)	Transliteration Scheme (name)	Script (ISO15924)	Language (ISO639-3)	Transliteration Scheme(s) (name),...
Arabic (Arab)	Arabic (ara)	Native (native)	Arabic (Arab)	Arabic (ara)	Native (native)
Arabic (Arab)	Arabic (ara)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	FBIS (fbis), BGN (bgn), Basis (basis), IC (ic), SATTS (satts), Buckwalter (buckwalter), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), Extended IC (ext_ic), Folk (folk)
Arabic (Arab)	Pashto (pus)	Native (native)	Arabic (Arab)	Pashto (pus)	Native (native)
Arabic (Arab)	Pashto (pus)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn), IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), Folk (folk)
Arabic (Arab)	Persian (fas)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), Folk (folk)
Arabic (Arab)	Urdu (urd)	Native (native)	Arabic (Arab)	Urdu (urd)	Native (native)
Arabic (Arab)	Urdu (urd)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)^[a] , IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), Folk (folk)
Arabic (Arab)	Afghan Persian (prs)	Native (native)	Arabic (Arab)	Afghan Persian (prs)	Native (native)
Arabic (Arab)	Afghan Persian (prs)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn), IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn)
Arabic (Arab)	Iranian Persian (pes)	Native (native)	Arabic (Arab)	Iranian Persian (pes)	Native (native)
Arabic (Arab)	Iranian Persian (pes)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn), IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn)
Burmese (Mymr)	Burmese (mya)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	MLCTS (mlcts)
Cyrillic (Cyrl)	Russian (rus)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn), IC (ic), ISO 9:1995 (iso9_1995), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn)
Cyrillic (Cyrl)	Russian (rus)	Native (native)	Cyrillic (Cyrl)	Russian (rus)	Native (native)
Devanagari (Nagari) (Deva)	Hindi (hin)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	IC (ic)
Greek (Grek)	Greek (ell)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	ISO 843:1997 (iso843_1997), ICU (icu)
Han (Hanzi) (Hani)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)^[b] , IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), Pinyin (hypy), Hanyu Pinyin Toned (hypy_toned), Wade-Giles (wade_giles), Chinese Telegraph Code (ctc)
Han (Hanzi) (Hani)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)	Han (Hanzi) (Hani)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)
Han (Kanji) (Hani)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Hebon Romaji (hebon), Kunrei-shiki Romaji (kunrei)
Han (Kanji) (Hani)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Hiragana (Hira)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)
Han (Kanji) (Hani)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Han (Kanji) (Hani)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)
Han (Hanja) (Hani)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)^[a]^[c], IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), KORDA (korda), McCune-Reischauer (mcr), Revised Romanization of Korean (moct), Folk (folk)
Han (Hanja) (Hani)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)
Han (Simplified variant) (Hans)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)^[b], IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), Pinyin (hypy), Hanyu Pinyin Toned (hypy_toned), Wade-Giles (wade_giles)
Han (Simplified variant) (Hans)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Hebon Romaji (hebon), Kunrei-shiki Romaji (kunrei)
Han (Traditional variant) (Hant)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)^[b], IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), Pinyin (hypy), Hanyu Pinyin Toned (hypy_toned), Wade-Giles (wade_giles)
Han (Traditional variant) (Hant)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)	Han (Simplified variant) (Hans)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)
Han (Traditional variant) (Hant)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Hebon Romaji (hebon), Kunrei-shiki Romaji (kunrei)
Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)^[c] , IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), KORDA (korda), McCune-Reischauer (mcr), Revised Romanization of Korean (moct), Folk (folk)
Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)
Hebrew (Hebr)	Hebrew (heb)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	ISO 259-2:1994 (iso259_2_1994), Folk (folk), ICU (icu)
Hiragana (Hira)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Hebon Romaji (hebon), Kunrei-shiki Romaji (kunrei)
Japanese syllabaries (alias for Hiragana + Katakana) (Hrkt)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Hebon Romaji (hebon), Kunrei-shiki Romaji (kunrei)
Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) (Jpan)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Hebon Romaji (hebon), Kunrei-shiki Romaji (kunrei)
Katakana (Kana)	Japanese (jpn)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Hebon Romaji (hebon), Kunrei-shiki Romaji (kunrei)
Korean (alias for Hangul + Han) (Kore)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)^[a]^[c], IC (ic), Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn), KORDA (korda), McCune-Reischauer (mcr), Revised Romanization of Korean (moct), Folk (folk)
Korean (alias for Hangul + Han) (Kore)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)	Arabic (Arab)	Arabic (ara)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)	Arabic (Arab)	Pashto (pus)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)	Arabic (Arab)	Persian (fas)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)	Arabic (Arab)	Urdu (urd)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)	Arabic (Arab)	Iranian Persian (pes)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Undiacritized BGN (und_bgn)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn)	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Basis (basis)	Arabic (Arab)	Arabic (ara)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	SATTS (satts)	Arabic (Arab)	Arabic (ara)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Buckwalter (buckwalter)	Arabic (Arab)	Arabic (ara)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	McCune-Reischauer (mcr)	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Revised Romanization of Korean (moct)	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Chinese Telegraph Code (ctc)	Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) (Hani)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Folk (folk)	Arabic (Arab)	Arabic (ara)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Folk (folk)	Arabic (Arab)	Pashto (pus)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Folk (folk)	Arabic (Arab)	Afghan Persian (prs)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Folk (folk)	Arabic (Arab)	Iranian Persian (pes)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Folk (folk)	Cyrillic (Cyrl)	Russian (rus)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Folk (folk)	Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) (Hang)	Korean (kor)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Folk (folk)	Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) (Hani)	Chinese (zho)	Native (native)
Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	BGN (bgn), Basis (basis), IC (ic)^[d]
Thai (Thai)	Thai (tha)	Native (native)	Latin (Latn)	English (eng)	ICU (icu), ISO :11940-2 (iso_11940_2), ISO 11940-2:2007 (iso11940_2_2007)
^[a]For Urdu, Basis implemented a 'speculative' BGN transliteration scheme prior to the release of the formal standard. Basis plans to update the implementation to match the standard. ^[b]For Chinese, BGN uses the Pinyin transliteration scheme. ^[c]For Korean, BGN uses the McCune-Reischauer transliteration scheme. ^[d]Standardizes names of Arabic origin in Latin script to conform to the target transliteration scheme.

Supported Languages of Origin

The following table displays the languages of origin that are supported for each source and target domain. For the full English names for the scripts, languages, and transliteration schemes, see the preceding table.

Source Domain			Target Domain(s)			Language(s) of Origin
Script	Language	Transliteration Scheme	Script	Language	Transliteration Scheme(s),...	Language(s),...
Arab	ara	native	Arab	ara	native	ara, eng
Arab	ara	native	Latn	eng	fbis, bgn, basis, ic, satts, buckwalter, und_bgn, ext_ic, folk	ara, eng
Arab	pus	native	Arab	pus	native	pus
Arab	pus	native	Latn	eng	bgn	pus
Arab	pus	native	Latn	eng	ic	pus, prs
Arab	pus	native	Latn	eng	und_bgn, folk	pus
Arab	fas	native	Latn	eng	bgn, und_bgn, folk	fas
Arab	urd	native	Arab	urd	native	urd
Arab	urd	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn, folk	urd
Arab	prs	native	Arab	prs	native	prs
Arab	prs	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn	prs
Arab	pes	native	Arab	pes	native	pes
Arab	pes	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn	pes
Cyrl	rus	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, iso9_1995, und_bgn	rus, eng
Cyrl	rus	native	Cyrl	rus	native	rus, eng
Deva	hin	native	Latn	eng	ic	hin
Grek	ell	native	Latn	eng	iso843_1997, icu	eng, ell
Hang	kor	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn, korda, mcr, moct, folk	kor, eng
Hang	kor	native	Hang	kor	native	kor, eng
Hani	zho	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn, hypy, hypy_toned, wade_giles, ctc	zho, eng
Hani	zho	native	Hani	zho	native	zho, eng
Hani	jpn	native	Latn	eng	hebon, kunrei	jpn, zho, kor
Hani	jpn	native	Hira	jpn	native	jpn
Hani	jpn	native	Hani	jpn	native	jpn, zho, kor
Hani	kor	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn, korda, mcr, moct, folk	kor, eng
Hani	kor	native	Hang	kor	native	kor, eng
Hans	zho	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn, hypy, hypy_toned, wade_giles	zho, eng
Hans	jpn	native	Latn	eng	hebon, kunrei	jpn, zho, kor
Hant	zho	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn, hypy, hypy_toned, wade_giles	zho, eng
Hant	zho	native	Hans	zho	native	zho, eng
Hant	jpn	native	Latn	eng	hebon, kunrei	jpn, zho, kor
Hebr	heb	native	Latn	eng	native	heb, eng
Hira	jpn	native	Latn	eng	hebon, kunrei	jpn
Hrkt	jpn	native	Latn	eng	hebon, kunrei	jpn, eng
Kana	jpn	native	Latn	eng	hebon, kunrei	jpn, eng
Kore	kor	native	Latn	eng	bgn, ic, und_bgn, korda, mcr, moct, folk	kor, eng
Kore	kor	native	Hang	kor	native	kor, eng
Jpan	jpn	native	Latn	eng	hebon, kunrei	jpn, eng, zho, kor
Latn	eng	bgn	Arab	ara	native	ara
Latn	eng	bgn	Arab	pus	native	pus
Latn	eng	bgn	Arab	fas	native	fas
Latn	eng	bgn	Arab	urd	native	urd
Latn	eng	bgn	Arab	pes	native	pes
Latn	eng	bgn	Latn	eng	und_bgn	eng, ara, pus, urd, prs, pes, fas, rus, zho, kor
Latn	eng	bgn	Hang	kor	native	kor
Latn	eng	basis	Arab	ara	native	ara
Latn	eng	satts	Arab	ara	native	ara
Latn	eng	buckwalter	Arab	ara	native	ara
Latn	eng	mcr	Hang	kor	native	kor
Latn	eng	moct	Hang	kor	native	kor
Latn	eng	ctc	Hani	zho	native	zho
Latn	eng	folk	Arab	ara	native	ara
Latn	eng	folk	Arab	pus	native	pus
Latn	eng	folk	Arab	prs	native	prs
Latn	eng	folk	Arab	pes	native	pes
Latn	eng	folk	Cyrl	rus	native	rus, eng
Latn	eng	folk	Hang	kor	native	kor, eng
Latn	eng	folk	Hani	zho	native	zho, eng
Latn	eng	native	Latn	eng	bgn, basis, ic	ara
Mymr	mya	native	Latn	eng	mlcts	mya
Thai	tha	native	Latn	eng	icu, iso_11940_2, iso11940_2_2007	eng, tha

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