There are several methods for the romanization of Greek, especially depending on whether the language written with Greek letters is Ancient Greek or Modern Greek and whether a phonetic transcription or a graphemic transliteration is intended. The conventional rendering of classical Greek names in English originates in the way Latin represented ...

Greek, and texts written after 1453 are considered Modern Greek. The rough breathing ( ῾ ) is romanized h. When it appears with a vowel or a diphthong, the h precedes the romanized vowel or diphthong; when it appears with rho ( Ῥ, ῥ), the h follows the romanized rho (Rh, rh). The h is supplied as appropriate when the rough breathing does not

The American Library Association and Library of Congress romanization scheme employs its "Modern Greek" system for all works and authors following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In the table below, the special rules for vowel combinations ( αι, αυ, ει, ευ, ηυ, οι, ου, ωυ) only apply when these letters function as digraphs.

Transliteration is the romanization attempts to transliterate the original script, the guiding principle is a one-to-one mapping of characters from Greek into the Latin script, with less emphasis on how the result sounds when pronounced according to English. Transcription is the conversion of a representation of Greek into another ...