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Concept
Romanization of Persian
Summary
Romanization of Persian or Latinization of Persian (Lâtin-Nevisi-ye Fârsi, lɒːtiːn.neviːˌsije fɒːɾˈsiː) is the representation of the Persian language (Iranian Persian, Dari and Tajik) with the Latin script. Several different romanization schemes exist, each with its own set of rules driven by its own set of ideological goals.
Romanization is familiar to many Persian speakers.
Many use an ad hoc romanization for text messaging and email;
road signs in Iran commonly include both Persian and English (in order to make them accessible to foreigners);
and websites use romanized domain names.
Because the Perso-Arabic script is an abjad writing system (with a consonant-heavy inventory of letters), many distinct words in standard Persian can have identical spellings, with widely varying pronunciations that differ in their (unwritten) vowel sounds. Thus a romanization paradigm can follow either transliteration (which mirrors spelling and orthography) or transcription (which mirrors pronunciation and phonology).
Transliteration (in the strict sense) attempts to be a complete representation of the original writing, so that an informed reader should be able to reconstruct the original spelling of unknown transliterated words. Transliterations of Persian are used to represent individual Persian words or short quotations, in scholarly texts in English or other languages that do not use the Arabic alphabet.
A transliteration will still have separate representations for different consonants of the Persian alphabet that are pronounced identically in Persian. Therefore, transliterations of Persian are often based on transliterations of Arabic. The representation of the vowels of the Perso-Arabic alphabet is also complex, and transliterations are based on the written form.
Transliterations commonly used in the English-speaking world include BGN/PCGN romanization and ALA-LC Romanization.
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