PERSIAN IN NON-ARABIC SCRIPTS

LC Perso-Arabic Script Romanization

Tajik-Persian in Cyrillic Script

JudeoPersian in Hebrew Script

Notes

not romanized when initial; for medial and final use, see

Vowels; for
glottal stop/ hamzah, cf.

Bb

may appear without dot/dagesh in Hebrew loanwords when appropriate may appear without dot/dagesh; cf.

Pp

; ; ; ; ; ;

Tt Ss Jj Ch ch Kh kh
Cf. ,

in loanwords; cf.

,
cf. , cf. ,

, , ;

in loanwords cf.

Dd Zz Rr Zz Zh zh Ss

,
cf. in Hebrew loanwords; cf. cf. , , , in loanwords; cf.

, , ,

Sh sh

, ; ; ; ;

Cf. in loanwords; cf.

in loanwords; cf.,

, ,

in loanwords; cf.

in loanwords; cf.

, , , ,
in loanwords cf. , cf.

(ayn) Gh, gh Ff

Qq

Kk

may appear without dot/dagesh; cf.

Gg Ll Mm Nn Vv

; or

cf. ,

may be doubled when not initial; for use as a vowel, see

Vowels

Hh Yy

or
may be doubled when not initial; for use as a vowel, see

Vowels

Tajik vowels

in loanwords; cf. in Arabic loanwords

Aa Ii

for JudeoPersian vowels, see below

Uu Iu Ee

in loanwords in loanwords in loanwords in loanwords in loanwords

Judeo-Persian vowels ( is a place-holder for any consonant)

for Tajik vowels, see above

unvocalized texts do not distinguish sheva, /a/, /e/, // or / /

not romanized

Aa

unvocalized texts do not distinguish sheva, /a/, /e/, // or / /

when first consonant is alif unvocalized texts do not distinguish sheva, /a/, /e/, // or / /

E, e

unvocalized texts do not

distinguish sheva, /a/, /e/, // or / /

I, i , Oo Uu

; ;

Judeo-Persian diphthongs ( is a place -holder for any consonant)

aw ay
Digraph

al

This table does not provide a complete romanization for the voweling of unvocalized Judeo-Persian texts. The ALA/LC Romanization table for Persian may be consulted.