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__BuckwaltertransliterationusesASCIIcharacterstorepresentArabicorthography.Asthereisaoneto
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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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