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“ Abbreviated words are transcribed in full, without the use of brackets. The most common symbol for abbreviation is ҃. Sometimes, omitted letters are placed above other letters in the word in Church Slavic texts (e.g., ѿ, єⷣ, ѵⷢ) , the letter added being sometimes given with a special symbol (e.g., гдⷭ҇ь) . The symbol ̾ above a letter indicates the omission of ъ or ь. ”

“ When two full forms of letters are stacked, as in Sanskritized Tibetan, there is no need to indicate the stacking. However, in the two cases noted here a modified letter prime should be inserted between the two consonants for the purpose of disambiguation. 10. ”

“ Massaquoi’s innovations were proposed primarily for representing foreign sounds, and are rarely attested in texts. For the latter two categories, Western characters are usually preferred in practice. If usage were to warrant addition of these characters to the table in the future, the table may be revised to include some or all of these categories with no impact on the phonetic values presented in this version. ”

“ Ghulām ʻAlī غلامعلی or غلام علی Shāh Jahān شاهجهان or شاه جهان Ibn Abī Ṭālib ابن ابیطالب or ابن ابي طالب Orthography of Persian in Romanization
11. Capitalization. (a) Rules for the capitalization of English are followed, except that the Arabic article al is lowercased in all positions. (b) Diacritics are used with both capital and lowercase letters. 12. The single prime ( ʹ ) is used: (a) To separate two letters representing two distinct consonantal sounds, when the combination might otherwise be read as a digraph. ”

“ It appears in the final position chiefly in texts published before 1945, in which it serves as a hard sign and is romanized as ʺ. The letters Ѣ and Ѫ are found chiefly in texts published before the orthographic reform of 1945. ”

“ Candrabindu before guttural, palatal, cerebral, and dental occlusives is transliterated n̐. Before labials, sibilants, semivowels, the aspirate, vowels, and in final position it is transliterated m̐. 6. ”

“ Ⳡ Ɲ (see Note 1) ⳡ ɲ (see Note 1) Ⳣ W ⳣ w Numerals ⲁ̅ 1 ⲓ̅ 10 ⲃ̅ 2 ⲕ̅ 20 ⲅ̅ 3 ⲗ̅ 30 ⲇ̅ 4 ⲙ̅ 40 ⲉ̅ 5 ⲛ̅ 50 Ⲋ̅ or 6 ⲝ̅ 60 ⲍ̅ 7 ⲟ̅ 70 ⲏ̅ 8 ⲡ̅ 80 ⲑ̅ 9 ϥ̅ 90 ⲣ̅ 100 ⲁ̅ 1000 ⲥ̅ 200 ⲃ̅ 2000 ⲧ̅ 300 ⲅ̅ 3000 ⲩ̅ 400 ⲇ̅ 4000 ⲫ̅ 500 ⲉ̅ 5000 ⲭ̅ 600 Ⲋ̅ or 6000 ⲯ̅ 700 ⲍ̅ 7000 ⲱ̅ 800 ⲏ̅ 8000 ⳁ̅ 900 ⲑ̅ 9000 Notes
The use of extended Latin characters in this document leverages use of the Unicode standard, as approved by the NDMSO office of the Library of Congress in December, 2007, while remaining usable for libraries using MARC-8 as well. ”