Annex 6 two-letter language codes in accordance with iso 639 (1990)

Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bashkir Basque Breton Bulgarian Byelorussian Catalan Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek modern Greenlandic Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Kazakh

sq ar hy az ba eu br bg be ca co hr cs da nl en et fi fr gl ka de el kl he hu is ga it kk

Kirghiz Korean Kurdish Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Maltese Moldavian Norwegian Occitan Polish Portuguese Rhaeto-Romance Romanian Russian Scots Gaelic Serbo-Croatian Slovak Slovenian (Slovene) Spanish Swedish Tadzhik (Tajik) Tatar Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Uzbek Welsh Yiddish

ky ko ku lv lt mk mt mo no oc pl pt rm ro ru gd sh sk sl es sv tg tt tr tk uk uz cy ji

Source: Multilingualism V. 3. — the needs of the Commission of the European Communities.

Annex 7 transliteration table for greek

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NAME	LETTER	PHONETIC (ELOT)	ETYMOLOGICAL (Classical)
alpha	α	a	a
beta	β	v	b
gamma	γ	g (see Note 5)	g
delta	δ	d (see Note 6)	d
epsilon	ε	e	e
zeta	ζ	z	z
eta	η	i	e
theta	θ	th	th
iota	ι	i	i
kappa	κ	k	c
lambda	λ	l	l
mu	μ	m	m
nu	ν	n	n
xi	ξ	x	x
omicron	ο	o	o
pi	π	p	p
rho	ρ	r	r
sigma	σ,ς	s (see Note 7)	s
tau	τ	t	t
upsilon	υ	i	u[y]
phi	φ	f	ph
chi	χ	kh (see Note 4)	ch
psi	ψ	ps	ps
omega	ω	o	o

Those using the ELOT standard should note the following additional combinations:

gamma gamma	γγ	ng
gamma kappa	γκ	g (initially), ng (medially)
gamma xi	γξ	nx
gamma chi	γχ	nkh
alpha upsilon	αυ	av (before voiced consonant or vowel) af (before voiceless consonant)
epsilon upsilon	ευ	ev (before voiced consonant or vowel) ef (before voiceless consonant)
eta upsilon	ηυ	iv (before voiced consonant or vowel) if (before voiceless consonant)
mu pi	μπ	b (initially), mb (medially)
nu tau	ντ	d (initially), nd (medially)
alpha iota	αι	e
epsilon iota	ει	i
omicron iota	οι	i
upsilon iota	υι	i
omicron upsilon	ου	ou

1. Use the ELOT phonetic standard for transliteration, except where a classical rendering is more familiar or appropriate in English, e.g. Cyclades for Κυκλάδες rather than the phonetic Kiklades. This may mean using different transliterations in different circumstances, e.g. the Athenian statesman has to be Pericles, but a modern Greek with the same name should be transliterated as Periklis.  

2. Be consistent within words, e.g. Myconos or Mikonos, but not Mykonos; Constantinos or Konstandinos, but not Konstantinos.  

3. The ELOT standard is not used consistently even in Greece, as can be seen from the variety of transliterations used for road signs, street names and maps, not to mention the different ways Greeks choose to transliterate their own names (see Commission telephone directory).  

4. The letter χ is usually better transliterated as h, e.g. in surnames beginning with Χατζι-/Χατζη-, although not usually for Χρίστος, which tends to come out as Christos (cf.Note 1).  

5. The combinations γι, γυ, γει, γοι and γη should be transliterated as y(i) and the combination γε as ye , e.g. Yannis for Γιάννης. Do not use the combinations ghi, ghy or ghe.  

6. There is no need to transliterate δ as dh, although this is sometimes seen.  

7. A single σ between vowels is often seen transliterated as 'ss', e.g. Vassilis for Βασίλης, but this practice should not be followed. Conversely foreign names with double letters usually appear in Greek with a single letter, even if pronounced double in the original language, e.g. Καναλέτο for Canaletto.  

8. It may require a little research to get back to the original orthography of foreign names appearing in Greek texts. It is obvious that Τζορτζ Μπέρναρντ Σο should be George Bernard Shaw (rather than 'Tzortz Mpernarnt So'!), but Turkish or Yugoslav names may be trickier. Both the Italian painter, Carracci, and the former capital of Pakistan, Karachi, come out as Καράτσι.  

9. Examples of Greek letters used to represent non-Greek sounds:

   σ	ch (French), sci/sce (Italian), sh, sch, sz
   τσ	ce/ci (Italian), ch, tsch, cs
   ζ	j (French), zs
   τζ	j (English), gi/ge (Italian), c (Turkish), xh (Albanian), dj
   ε	oe, ö
   ι	u (French), ü, y
   (γ)ου	w

10.  

11. Examples of transliterated foreign names:

Auschwitz	Άουσβιτς	Maxwell	Μάξγουελ
Bruges	Μπριζ	Nietzsche	Νίτσε
Chekhov	Τσέχοφ	Sarajevo	Σαράγιεβο
Eisenhower	Αϊζενχάουερ	Schoenberg	Σένμπεργκ
Goethe	Γκέτε	Vaughan	Βον
Hoxha	Χότζα	Wyoming	Ουαϊόμινγκ