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Transliteration Types

Definition: A Transliteration Type defines the method used to transliterate a non-Latin-1 name into Latin-1.

NOTE: In Arabic and some Asian countries, the names with Transliteration Type (e.g., ARE, THE, etc.) represent either a translation or a transliteration. Transliterated Names are based on ground truth, i.e., as sign posted, unlike countries in Europe where HERE generates the Transliteration. As a result, a native non-Latin Name (e.g., a Street Name in THA) can have more than one associated Transliteration Name: a translation and a transliteration, or various transliterations.

Three Character Language Code Language Description
No value Not Applicable
ARE Arabic English
ARX Armenian Transliterated
ASX Assamese Transliterated
AZX Azeri Transliteration
BEX Belarusian Transliterated
BGX Bengali Transliterated
BOX Bosnian Transliterated
BUX Bulgarian Transliterated
CZX Czech Transliterated
ENG English
ESX Estonian Transliterated
FRE French
GEX Georgian Transliterated
GJX Gujarati Transliterated
GRX Greek Transliterated
HEX Hebrew Transliterated
HIX Hindi Transliterated
HUX Hungarian Transliterated
JPX Japanese Transliterated
KAX Kazakh Transliterated
KIX Kyrgyz Transliterated
KNX Kannada Transliterated
KOX Korean Transliterated
LAX Latvian Transliterated
LIX Lithuanian Transliterated
MAX Macedonian Transliterated
MGX Mongolian Transliterated
MLX Maltese Transliterated
MNX Montenegrin Transliterated
MRX Marathi Transliterated
MYX Malayalam Transliterated
ORX Oriya Transliterated
PNX Punjabi Transliterated
POR Portuguese
POX Polish Transliterated
PYN Pinyin - Transliteration for Chinese
RMX Romanian Transliterated
RUX Russian Transliterated
SCX Serbian Transliterated
SIX Slovenian Transliterated
SLX Slovak Transliterated
SRX Croatian Transliterated
THE Thai English
TLX Telugu Transliterated
TMX Tamil Transliterated
TUX Turkish Transliterated
TWE Taiwan English
UKX Ukrainian Transliterated
VIX Vietnamese Transliterated