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11: Foreign Languages
- Overview
- Titles and Other Proper Names
- 11.3Capitalization of foreign titles
- 11.4Punctuation of foreign titles
- 11.5Italic versus roman type
- 11.6Foreign titles with English translation
- 11.7Translated titles
- 11.8Foreign institutions
- Languages Using the Latin Alphabet
- 11.9Capitalization—English versus other languages
- 11.10Punctuation—original language versus English context
- 11.11Word division
- 11.12Special characters
- 11.13International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- African Languages
- Albanian
- Croatian and Bosnian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Finnish
- French
- 11.28French—additional resources
- 11.29French capitalization
- 11.30Titles of French works
- 11.31Spacing with French punctuation
- 11.32French use of guillemets
- 11.33Quotation marks in French
- 11.34French dialogue
- 11.35French suspension points and ellipses
- 11.36French word division—vowels
- 11.37French word division—consonants
- 11.38French words containing apostrophes
- 11.39French words best left undivided
- 11.40French special characters
- German
- 11.41The new German orthography
- 11.42German capitalization
- 11.43German apostrophes
- 11.44German quotation marks
- 11.45German word division—vowels
- 11.46German word division—consonants
- 11.47German word division—compounds
- 11.48German special characters
- Hungarian
- Italian
- 11.51Italian capitalization
- 11.52Italian quotations and dialogue
- 11.53Italian apostrophes
- 11.54Italian suspension points and ellipses
- 11.55Italian word division—vowels
- 11.56Italian word division—consonants
- 11.57Italian word division—words containing apostrophes
- 11.58Italian special characters
- Latin
- 11.59Latin capitalization—titles of works
- 11.60Latin word division—syllables
- 11.61Latin word division—single consonants
- 11.62Latin word division—multiple consonants
- 11.63Latin word division—compounds
- 11.64Latin special characters
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian and Moldavian
- Serbian and Montenegrin
- Spanish
- 11.76Spanish—additional resources
- 11.77Spanish capitalization
- 11.78Spanish question marks and exclamation points
- 11.79Spanish guillemets and quotation marks
- 11.80Spanish dialogue
- 11.81Spanish suspension points and ellipses
- 11.82Spanish word division—vowels
- 11.83Spanish word division—consonants
- 11.84Dividing Spanish compounds
- 11.85Spanish special characters
- Swedish
- Turkish and Azeri
- Languages Usually Transliterated (or Romanized)
- 11.91Transliteration
- 11.92Character sets for non-Latin alphabets
- 11.93Proofreading copy in non-Latin alphabets—a warning
- 11.94Diacritics—specialized versus general contexts
- 11.95Italics versus roman for transliterated terms
- Arabic
- 11.96Arabic transliteration
- 11.97The hamza and the ʿayn
- 11.98Arabic spelling
- 11.99The Arabic definite article
- 11.100Arabic capitalization
- 11.101Arabic word division
- Chinese and Japanese
- 11.102Chinese romanization
- 11.103Exceptions to Pinyin
- 11.104Apostrophes, hyphens, and tone marks in Chinese romanization
- 11.105Some common Chinese names
- 11.106Japanese romanization
- 11.107Modified Hepburn system
- 11.108Chinese and Japanese—capitalization and italics
- 11.109Titles of Japanese and Chinese works
- 11.110Inclusion of Chinese and Japanese characters
- Hebrew
- 11.111Hebrew transliteration systems
- 11.112Diacritics in transliterated Hebrew
- 11.113Hebrew prefixes
- 11.114Hebrew capitalization and italics
- 11.115Hebrew word division
- 11.116Unromanized Hebrew phrases
- 11.117A note on Hebrew vowels
- Russian
- 11.118Russian transliteration
- 11.119Russian capitalization
- 11.120Titles of Russian works
- 11.121Russian quotations and dialogue
- 11.122Russian suspension points
- 11.123Russian uses of the dash
- 11.124Russian word division—general
- 11.125Combinations not to be divided in Cyrillic transliteration
- 11.126Division between Russian consonants
- 11.127Division of Russian words after prefixes or between parts
- 11.128Division of Russian words after vowel or diphthong
- South Asian Languages
- Classical Greek
- Breathings and Accents
- 11.132Greek breathing marks
- 11.133Greek accent marks
- 11.134Unaccented Greek words
- 11.135Greek vowels
- Punctuation and Numbers
- Word Division
- Old English and Middle English
- American Sign Language
