Appendix:Meroitic transliteration schemes

Table
The following table provides a comparative overview of the schemes employed by various major scholars or works to transcribe/transliterate Meroitic from its script’s decipherment in 1909 to the present day. The highlighted row indicates the scheme in widespread academic use today, which is also the system adopted by Wiktionary.

Chronological list of sources

 * Griffith, Francis Llewellyn. 1911. Meroë.
 * Griffith, Francis Llewellyn. 1929. “Meroitic Studies VI” in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 15, p. 69–74.
 * Macadam, M. F. L. 1950. Four Inscriptions, p. 43–47.
 * Heyler and Leclant. 1970. Dokumentation Ägyptischer Altertümer; and Heyler et al. 1970. Systeme de transcription, p. 2–4.
 * Hintze, Fritz. 1973. “Some Problems of Meroitic Philology” in Meroitica 1, p. 321.
 * Hintze, Fritz. 1974. “Some Problems of Meroitic Philology” in Studies of the Ancient Languages of the Sudan, p. 73.
 * Hainsworth, M. E. 1976. Informatique et méroïtique, volume II, p. 9.
 * Rilly, Claude. 2016. “Meroitic” in Julie Stauder-Porchet, Andréas Stauder and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles.