Talk:Romanization of Hebrew

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:MisterGoodTime (talk) 22:20, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination of [[ISO_259-3]] for deletion 

message: Urgent: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) to add your opinions about this important matter. Thank you. IZAK 17:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hebrew naming conventions  

message: Please let's not present the subject as if it's so confused and complex that only mavens like us can understand it. That's not fair to the reader, who has come here willing to learn. It's like Shammai when he drove the seeker away with his building rod. If there's a point too complex to cover in this one article, at least provide a link to a fuller treatment somewhere else. I don't have time right now to clear this up myself. --Hoziron 14:46, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree this needs a  template. Also, get down to business in the intro. We need a scientific standard that we endorse for use on Wikipedia. For Arabic, this is DIN 31635 (see ). What about ISO 259? I can't seem to find a clean specification of it. What is the transliteration scheme used on e.g. Shekhem (? I am familiar with seeing these transliterations with superscript vowels etc. in academic publications, but I don't know what the transliteration scheme is called, and how it is officially specified. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Writing systems. dab (ᛏ) 16:20, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

text: thank you, I realize this is an encyclopedia article; I was going to inform myself by this encyclopedia article for the purpose of deciding what convention to use myself, by WP:NOR we shouldn't just pull conventions out of our hats. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) is interesting but it doesn't answer my question, since it has "Latin Transcription" instead of specifying a standard. I am no closer to knowing ISO 259 now, and I don't know how close Gilgamesh's proposal is to ISO because he does not compare it to ISO. dab (ᛏ) 17:14, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explain don't complain 

message: Adding a new external link to Hebrew transliteration service at http://www.latkey.com/translit (it stayed here for ages, but was recently erroneously removed). It matches wiki guidelines as it's free and doesn't contain advertising content on its pages. I suggest reviewing other links as some have changed or contain Google adwords. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DanIssa (talk • contribs) .
:Sure there are other inappropriate links, people just keep adding them, you know. It does not matter if it's "free" or "useful". Linking to download sites for Microsoft Office plugins to use the online service of a company is not appropriate. There is no encyclopedic content on the site, and it does promote other products of that comany. If you reference  and the corresponding user contributions, you'll see that there were repeated attempts to place links in several articles, despite all warnings not to re-add them (including the ignored warning on your own talk page). Not only to the transliteration service but also to the company main page, with link descriptions promoting the keyboard stickers. You will not add any more links to latkey.com, i-keyboard.com, or related domains. Femto 13:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online web transliteration service for Hebrew 

message: Is there really an official Academia transliteration of dhet, namely d with line below (the same as for dhalet)? I only know the transliteration z with dot below.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.92.246 (talk) 18:16, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  dhalet -- dhet  

message: Please don't take the following personally, someone obviously invested a lot of time and effort in the comparative table, however it includes some absurd mutations which can only be the result of a feverishly imaginative mind and bare no resemblance to reality. Two of the more extreme monstrosities are "" and "". But seriously: mainly these mistakes seem to be the result of a superficial generalization of rules not fully understood, e.g. the difference between dagesh kal and dagesh chazak. Or could anyone state some source? Dan Pelleg (talk) 00:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Couldn't see those any more, tool them out. Dan ☺ 23:15, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mutations 

message: What about "ch" for , as in "Halacha"? Is that just from the German transliteration or is it part of a standard that is not included here?--87.162.37.108 (talk) 23:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "ch" for  is very common, though not standard. I think this information should be included in the article. Dan ☺ 14:26, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ch? 

message: I've lived in Israel all my life and I've never seen this letter. I don't think any Israeli can pronounce it anyway. TFighterPilot (talk) 18:10, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, "dhalet" and "thav" were invented for the transliteration into Hebrew of sounds that are not part of Hebrew phonology () – however they are standard, and the rare occasion of needing to romanize a Hebrew text which contains transliterations of these sounds into Hebrew justifies including them in this table (e.g. :he:סאות' פארק or :he:מד'הב). Dan ☺ 17:00, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

text: There are no variants of Alef and Ayin except for pronounced vs. silent, therefore usage of various slightly different symbols for their transliteration has no significance except for consistency and aesthetics. Personally I prefer the half circles ( ʾ , ʿ ): most unambiguous in my opinion. Dan ☺ 16:31, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dhalet 

message: Angr, your edit is a move in the wrong direction. Wikipedia:IPA for Hebrew is the page we should update: recently articles such as Mid front unrounded vowel, Mid back rounded vowel and Open central unrounded vowel were added to Wikipedia, which provide clarity and conteract the misleading absence of distinct IPA characters for these vowels. In phonemic transcriptions, the diacritics are left out for simplicity, however, in tables such as in this article, a precise phonetic definition is better. The simplified phonemic convention can be added to it but shouldn't replace it: it simply denotes the wrong vowels. Dan ☺ 20:05, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong direction 

message: In many of the pages on a language, there is sample text in a table with variations.  For example, see this article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_German_language
Maybe someone can have a table with English, Transliteration 1, Transliteration 2, Hebrew 
Maybe something from here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_prayers_and_blessings  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.64.108.61 (talk) 03:12, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone please add an example.   

message: The quoted sentence in Section "How to transliterate" does not require a citation as it is an invented statement for the purpose of demonstrating a technical point.
Eaglebrowne (talk) 14:37, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation in "How to transliterate" 

message: Saying the Hebrew Language Academy standard does not offer the romanization of those letters is a bit of an error. See http://hebrew-academy.org.il/wp-content/uploads/Transcription2_1.pdf, page three. Itsused (talk) 12:06, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the romanization of Gimel Grusha, Zayin Grusha and Tsadi Grusha 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I note that User:Dbachmann created a page with a merge template on it (DIN 31636), but I can't find the matching discussion. It does look like the table might be helpful on the Romanization page, but I'm far from an expert so it would be nice to have some comment in support or opposition. Klbrain (talk) 22:01, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Given no support, I've closed the proposal, but have improved the links between the articles and given some context to the German article. Klbrain (talk) 11:54, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  2017 merge 

message: Some of them don't seem phonologically possible, e.g. ḥăṭep̄ - what is this even supposed to represent? 82.208.108.68 (talk) 23:16, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISO letter names 

message: Looking further into it, the article describes something completely different from the standard in question. An online preview of this standard can be found here, of which ISO 259 seems to be an accurate description. As can be seen, it has next to nothing in common with the system this article calls 'ISO 259'. 82.208.108.68 (talk) 23:53, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Made-up information