The Myanma Language Commission Transcription System, also known as the MLC Transcription System (MLCTS), is a transcription system for rendering Burmese in the Latin alphabet. It is loosely based on the Pāli romanisation system, and was devised by the Myanma Language Commission. Myazedi (Yazakuma) Stone Instription The oldest surviving Burmese inscription, written in Burmese, Pyu, Mon, and Pali, it is the story of Prince Yazakuma. ... Transcription may be one of the following: In linguistics, transcription is the conversion of spoken words into written language. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... For the town and district in Rajasthan, see Pali, Rajasthan For the Ganapati temple of pali and place in Maharastra, see Ballaleshwar Pali Pāli (Devanagari पालि) is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. ...

The transcription system is based on the orthography of formal Burmese, and is not suited for colloquial Burmese, which has substantial differences in phonology from formal Burmese. The orthography of a language is the set of symbols (glyphs and diacritics) used to write a language, as well as the set of rules describing how to write these glyphs correctly, including spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. ...

Features

Features of the MLC Transcription System include:

• Usage of coalesced letters in transcribing stacked consonants (e.g. ဂ္ဃ, transcribed ggh)
• Consonantal transcriptions (for initials) similar to those of Pali
• Transcription of finals as consonants rather than as glottal stops
• Usage of ':', '.' to transcribe two tones, heavy and creaky respectively

Transcription system

Initial consonants

Tones

Medial consonants

Full Vowels