Wiktionary:Gothic transliteration

See also Appendix:Gothic alphabet

The Gothic letters are transliterated on Wiktionary as follows:

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𐌰	𐌱	𐌲	𐌳	𐌴	𐌵	𐌶	𐌷	𐌸	𐌹	𐌺	𐌻	𐌼	𐌽	𐌾	𐌿	𐍀	𐍁	𐍂	𐍃	𐍄	𐍅	𐍆	𐍇	𐍈	𐍉	𐍊
a,ā	b	g	d	ē	q	z	h	þ	i	k	l	m	n	j	u,ū	p	90	r	s	t	w	f	x	ƕ	ō	900

Macrons are written above vowels if they are long. This is always the case for ē and ō, sometimes the case for ā and ū, and never for ī. In the combination ei, the e does not receive a macron. Acute accents are not used for ai and au. The difference between ai, aí and ái is purely etymological and does not necessarily reflect any difference in pronunciation. They may well have been pronounced /e(ː)/ and /o(ː)/ in all cases (i.e. 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (bairan) as /beran/, 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌽 (bauan) as /boːan/, and 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (haitan) as /heːtan/). This is confirmed by Latin sources of the time, which spell Austrogoth with an o.

Transliterated entries

Following the passing of this vote, entries may be created for Gothic words in their Latin script versions. Such entries use the special ===Romanization=== part-of-speech header, along with the templates {{got-rom}} and {{got-romanization of}}. They contain no grammatical information of any kind and simply link to the equivalent Gothic script entry. For example, for qino:

==Gothic==
===Romanization===
{{got-rom|head=qinō}}

# {{got-romanization of|𐌵𐌹𐌽𐍉}}

The names of the entries are in 'raw' transliterated form, which uses a one-to-one mapping of the Gothic alphabet to the standard Latin alphabet letters, along with þ and ƕ. Macrons are not used in these entry names, although the {{got-rom}} template allows a head= parameter to display them if necessary. No consensus has been reached yet on whether to allow the combinations <th> and <hw> instead of <þ> and <ƕ>. If allowed, these combinations may create ambiguities with the Gothic combinations <𐍄𐌷> and <𐌷𐍅>.