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__BuckwaltertransliterationusesASCIIcharacterstorepresentArabicorthography.Asthereisaoneto
WordbyWord
one correspondence with Unicode, the encoding scheme is reversible. JQuranTree uses a superset of
QuranDictionary BuckwaltertransliterationtoenablereversibletransliterationofTanzilXML.

EnglishTranslation ExtendedBuckwalterTransliteration
SyntacticTreebank There are 4 nonarabic characters in the original encoding scheme with are not found in the Quranic
text:P(peh),J(tcheh),V(veh)andG(gaf).Thecombinationcharacteralif+maddah(|)isalsonotused
OntologyofConcepts
inTanzilXML.ThesecharactersarenotimplementedbytheJQuranTreeBuckwalterencoder.
Documentation
Likewise, 14 Quranic symbols do not feature in the original scheme. In the extended scheme used by
QuranicGrammar JQuranTree, these have been assigned to ASCII punctuation marks. This is not ambiguous, since
modernpunctuationdoesnotoccurintheQuran:
MessageBoard
Maddah(^)
Resources
HamzaAbove(#)
Feedback SmallHighSeen(:)
SmallHighRoundedZero(@)
JavaAPI SmallHighUprightRectangularZero(")
Developer'sGuide SmallHighMeemIsolatedForm([)
Overview SmallLowSeen()
Uthmaniscript SmallWaw(,)
Orthographymodel SmallYa(.)
Simpleencoding SmallHighNoon(!)
Unicodeserialization
EmptyCentreLowStop()
Transliteration
Analysistable EmptyCentreHighStop(+)
SearchAPI RoundedHighStopWithFilledCentre(%)
Examples SmallLowMeem(])
Project TheextendedBuckwaltertransliterationschemeisshowninFig1.below.Sectionshighlighedinyellow
Download indicatethosepartsoftheschemewhichhavebeenextendedovertheoriginal:
APIdocumentation
Advanced
U N I C OD E B U C K W A LT E R
Orthographyinternals
Buildinstructions Decimal Hex Glyph ASCII Orthography
Testcoverage 1569 U+0621 ' Hamza

1571 U+0623 > Alif+HamzaAbove

1572 U+0624 & Waw+HamzaAbove

1573 U+0625 < Alif+HamzaBelow

1574 U+0626 } Ya+HamzaAbove

1575 U+0627 A Alif

1576 U+0628 b Ba

1577 U+0629 p TaMarbuta

1578 U+062A t Ta

1579 U+062B v Tha

1580 U+062C j Jeem

1581 U+062D H HHa

1582 U+062E x Kha

1583 U+062F d Dal

1584 U+0630 * Thal

1585 U+0631 r Ra

1586 U+0632 z Zain

1587 U+0633 s Seen

1588 U+0634 $ Sheen

1589 U+0635 S Sad

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1590 U+0636 D DDad

1591 U+0637 T TTa

1592 U+0638 Z DTha

1593 U+0639 E Ain

1594 U+063A g Ghain

1600 U+0640 _ Tatweel

1601 U+0641 f Fa

1602 U+0642 q Qaf

1603 U+0643 k Kaf

1604 U+0644 l Lam

1605 U+0645 m Meem

1606 U+0646 n Noon

1607 U+0647 h Ha

1608 U+0648 w Waw

1609 U+0649 Y AlifMaksura

1610 U+064A y Ya

1611 U+064B F Fathatan

1612 U+064C N Dammatan

1613 U+064D K Kasratan

1614 U+064E a Fatha

1615 U+064F u Damma

1616 U+0650 i Kasra

1617 U+0651 ~ Shadda

1618 U+0652 o Sukun

1619 U+0653 ^ Maddah

1620 U+0654 # HamzaAbove

1648 U+0670 ` AlifKhanjareeya

1649 U+0671 { Alif+HamzatWasl

1756 U+06DC : SmallHighSeen

1759 U+06DF @ SmallHighRoundedZero

1760 U+06E0 " SmallHighUprightRectangularZero

1762 U+06E2 [ SmallHighMeemIsolatedForm

1763 U+06E3 SmallLowSeen

1765 U+06E5 , SmallWaw

1766 U+06E6 . SmallYa

1768 U+06E8 ! SmallHighNoon

1770 U+06EA EmptyCentreLowStop

1771 U+06EB + EmptyCentreHighStop

1772 U+06EC % RoundedHighStopWithFilledCentre

1773 U+06ED ] SmallLowMeem

Fig1.ExtendedBuckwaltertransliteration.

SeeAlso
ArabicTransliterationTimBuckwalter'swebsite
BuckwalterTransliterationWikipediaarticle
PhoneticTranscription

LanguageResearchGroup CopyrightKaisDukes,20092011.Email:sckd@leeds.ac.uk.Thisisanopensourceproject.
UniversityofLeeds TheQuranicArabicCorpusisavailableundertheGNUpubliclicensewithtermsofuse.
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