Wikidata:Property proposal/ALA-LC romanization

ALA-LC romanization edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Lexemes

DescriptionTransliteration schemes for non-Roman scripts approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association.
RepresentsALA-LC romanization (Q603208)
Data typeString
Domainform
Example 1менделеевит (L126749) → Mendeleevit
Example 2মা (L1472) → mā
Example 3मातृ (L221807) → mātr̥
Sourcehttps://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
See alsoRevised Hepburn romanization (P2125), ISO 15919 transliteration (P5825), ITRANS (P8881)

Motivation edit

ALA-LC romanization (Q603208) is a set of transliteration schemes for different non-Roman scripts into Latin script, which is approved by the American Library Association (Q465584) and Library of Congress (Q131454). The property will help bring more quality to the transliteration data work going on for Wikidata lexemes. Bodhisattwa (talk) 09:02, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit