Transliteration

Tigrinya – ALA-LC transliteration system

Language: Abkhaz Adyghe Altai Armenian (eastern, classical) Armenian (western) Azerbaijani (Azeri) Bashkir Belarusian Bulgarian Carrier Cherokee Chuvash Erzya Georgian Greek Ingush Inuktitut Japanese Kazakh Kyrgyz Macedonian Moldovan Old Church Slavonic Ossetian Russian Serbian Tamazight Tigrinya Udmurt Ukrainian Vai Yakut

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Tigrinya virtual keyboard

The Tigrinya virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.

Language overview

Tigrinya (ትግርኛ), also spelled Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language that belongs to the Semitic languages family. It is spoken in Eritrea by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples, and counts about 9.7 million speakers. The Tigrinya language is written with the Geʽez script, an abugida (or an alphasyllabary), first used to write the Geʽez language, and adapted to write other languages, like Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Guragigna, and Harari from the Ethio/Eritrean Semitic languages family, but also Bilen and Meʼen, which are Nilotic languages.

Transliteration system: ALA-LC

ALA-LC is a set of standards for the romanization, or representation of texts in other writing systems using the Latin alphabet. This label includes the initials of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Library of Congress (LC). This system is used to represent bibliographic names by North American libraries and the British Library, as well as in publications throughout the English-speaking world.

Books

Tigrinya links

• ALA-LC romanization system for Tigrinya (2011) (.pdf)

Other supported languages

The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Erzya, Georgian, Greek, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.