What schemes are supported?

Two: DMG, the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft scholarly standard that uses diacritics like š, ḫ, and ġ to distinguish letters; and a Simplified ASCII scheme that collapses homophones for casual use.

Why are short vowels missing?

Persian normally does not write short vowels (a, e, o), so they cannot be recovered from the script automatically. The tool transliterates the consonants and long vowels that are actually written and leaves short vowels to the reader.

How are Persian digits and punctuation handled?

Persian digits ۰–۹ are converted to 0–9, and Persian punctuation like ، ؛ ؟ is mapped to the Latin comma, semicolon, and question mark.

Is the transliteration reversible?

Not perfectly. Because several Persian letters share a sound and short vowels are unwritten, romanization is inherently lossy and cannot always be reversed to the exact original spelling.

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Persian to Latin Transliteration

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Romanize Persian into the Latin alphabet

Transliterating Persian lets you cite Farsi words in Latin-script documents, catalogues, or URLs. This tool converts Persian script to Latin using either the scholarly DMG standard or a simplified ASCII scheme, so you can choose precision or readability.

How it works

The transliterator maps each Persian letter to its Latin equivalent for the selected scheme:

DMG uses diacritics to keep distinct letters apart — for example š for ش, ḫ for خ, ġ for غ, and č for چ — even when they sound similar.
Simplified uses plain ASCII, writing sh, kh, gh, and ch, which is easier to type but merges some letters.

Persian digits are converted to Arabic numerals, Persian punctuation is mapped to its Latin counterpart, and the zero-width non-joiner is dropped so compounds read as one Latin word.

Example and notes

سلام transliterates to slām (DMG) or slam (Simplified). Because Persian omits short vowels, you will often add them yourself when reading aloud — slam is pronounced salām. Treat the output as a faithful consonant-and-long-vowel skeleton rather than a phonetic spelling.

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