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{{official capitalization standard|language=Transliterations|proposal=1}} |
{{official capitalization standard|language=Transliterations|proposal=1}} |
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Transliteration is the conversion from one script to another, e.g., from |
Transliteration is the conversion from one script to another, e.g., from Latin to Kanji, Kanji to Cyrillic, Cyrillic to Hebrew, etc. Often, releases will be transliterated for the benefit of people who enjoy the music but cannot read the original script. While transliteration to the Latin script is the most common, it is not the only possibility. |
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Cyrillic to Latin, etc. Often, releases will be transliterated for the benefit of people who enjoy the music but cannot read the original script. While transliteration to the Latin script (romanization) is the most common, it is not the only possibility. |
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Transliterated releases should be capitalized and otherwise conform to the rules of the transliteration |
Transliterated releases should be capitalized and otherwise conform to the rules of the transliteration system used. This is only relevant when translating to a script that has a capitalization concept: Armenian, Cyrillic, Deseret, Georgian, Greek, Latin, and Roman. |
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Some languages have specific transliteration capitalization guidelines: |
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What follows is specific guidance for languages which are often transliterated. |
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* Japanese: [[Capitalization Standard Japanese]] |
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* Yiddish: [[Capitalization Standard Yiddish]] |
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For any other languages: |
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==Chinese== |
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# If the text is being transliterated to a script '''without''' a capitalization concept, there is of course no need to change capitalization. |
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While there are many romanization systems for Chinese, [[Wikipedia:Hanyu Pinyin|Hanyu Pinyin]] is the most common in MusicBrainz. In Hanyu Pinyin, only the first letter of the title and of proper nouns should be capitalized. More detailed writing rules can be found in ''[http://www.pinyin.info/readings/zyg/rules.html Basic Rules of Hanyu Pinyin Orthography]''. |
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# If the text is being transliterated to a script which '''does''' have a capitalization concept, |
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:# If the original text was in a script '''without''' a capitalization concept, only the first letter of each sentence and proper nouns should be capitalized. |
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:# If the original text was in a script which '''does''' have a capitalization concept, |
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::# If the original text's language has a [[Capitalization Standard]] guideline, keep the capitalization the same in the new script. |
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::# If there is not a [[Capitalization Standard]] guideline for the original text's language, only the first letter of each sentence and proper nouns should be capitalized. |
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'''Examples:''' |
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:This section should be moved to [[[[Capitalization Standard Japanese]]. |
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* [[Release:5193d964-d732-4d81-a99f-37f8e5bb14bb|Bā dù kōngjiān]] (Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of [[Release:58834222-e36a-49fe-b71e-27436faed9ce|八度空間]]) |
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* [[Release:d3682b57-863f-46c5-ac0d-c5efb6f80dc5|Wáng Fēi]] (Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of [[Release:1f4c4892-2039-4545-9658-5f15248c7861|王菲]]) |
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==Hebrew== |
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The most common method used in MusicBrainz is the [[Wikipedia:Hepburn romanization|Hepburn romanization]] without the use of macrons for long vowels (Tokyo instead of Tōkyō), with the first letter of the title and of proper nouns capitalized. |
The most common method used in MusicBrainz is the [[Wikipedia:Hepburn romanization|Hepburn romanization]] without the use of macrons for long vowels (Tokyo instead of Tōkyō), with the first letter of the title and of proper nouns capitalized. |
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* [[Release:54212970-fd65-46f3-921e-3a970005412f|Japanese]] to [[Release:b700fb45-2a65-418d-9252-4e97c83ac2e8|Latin]] |
* [[Release:54212970-fd65-46f3-921e-3a970005412f|Japanese]] to [[Release:b700fb45-2a65-418d-9252-4e97c83ac2e8|Latin]] |
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* [[Release:f6483d43-aa10-4131-b594-9ce882970130|Latin]] to [[Release:3ed5d230-98d5-4a15-a54d-a1b0d919bac3|Japanese]] |
* [[Release:f6483d43-aa10-4131-b594-9ce882970130|Latin]] to [[Release:3ed5d230-98d5-4a15-a54d-a1b0d919bac3|Japanese]] |
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==Yiddish== |
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Revision as of 08:14, 8 April 2010
| Status: This page describes an active style guideline proposal and is not official. |
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| Status: This is an official style guideline. |
Transliteration is the conversion from one script to another, e.g., from Latin to Kanji, Kanji to Cyrillic, Cyrillic to Hebrew, etc. Often, releases will be transliterated for the benefit of people who enjoy the music but cannot read the original script. While transliteration to the Latin script is the most common, it is not the only possibility.
Transliterated releases should be capitalized and otherwise conform to the rules of the transliteration system used. This is only relevant when translating to a script that has a capitalization concept: Armenian, Cyrillic, Deseret, Georgian, Greek, Latin, and Roman.
Some languages have specific transliteration capitalization guidelines:
- Chinese: Capitalization Standard Chinese
- Hebrew: Capitalization Standard Hebrew
- Japanese: Capitalization Standard Japanese
- Yiddish: Capitalization Standard Yiddish
For any other languages:
- If the text is being transliterated to a script without a capitalization concept, there is of course no need to change capitalization.
- If the text is being transliterated to a script which does have a capitalization concept,
- If the original text was in a script without a capitalization concept, only the first letter of each sentence and proper nouns should be capitalized.
- If the original text was in a script which does have a capitalization concept,
- If the original text's language has a Capitalization Standard guideline, keep the capitalization the same in the new script.
- If there is not a Capitalization Standard guideline for the original text's language, only the first letter of each sentence and proper nouns should be capitalized.
Japanese
- This section should be moved to [[Capitalization Standard Japanese.
The most common method used in MusicBrainz is the Hepburn romanization without the use of macrons for long vowels (Tokyo instead of Tōkyō), with the first letter of the title and of proper nouns capitalized.
Note: Japanese uses katakana to write loan words and to transliterate foreign words. There are no capitalization issues involved since katakana has no capitalization.
Examples:
