Transliteration

Greek – UN/ELOT transliteration system

Language: Abkhaz Adyghe Altai Armenian (eastern, classical) Armenian (western) Azerbaijani (Azeri) Bashkir Belarusian Bulgarian Carrier Cherokee Chuvash Erzya Georgian Greek Ingush Inuktitut Japanese Kazakh Kyrgyz Macedonian Moldovan Old Church Slavonic Ossetian Russian Serbian Tamazight Tigrinya Udmurt Ukrainian Vai Yakut

To Greek script To Latin script Copy

Greeklish ISO 843 UN/ELOT

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Greek virtual keyboard

The Greek virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.

Language overview

Modern Greek (ελληνικά, transliterated in elliniká) belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European languages family. Official language in Greece and Cyprus, it counts about 15 million speakers. The Modern Greek language is written in an alphabet of 24 letters.

Transliteration system: UN/ELOT

The United Nations recommended system was approved in 1987 (resolution V/19), based on the ELOT 743 conversion system of the Greek Standardization Organization.

Other transliteration systems for Greek

The other currently supported transliteration systems for Greek are: Greeklish, and ISO 843.

Books

Greek links

• Greek alphabet
• ELOT 743 romanization system for Greek (.pdf)

Other supported languages

The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Erzya, Georgian, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Tigrinya, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.