Transliteration By ajbenitez 185 C. 185-254 The Pantateuch was transliterated into Greek characters 1548 Yahiro a Japanese created the earliest Japanese Romanization system based on Portuguese 1885 The American Library Association creates a system for Cyrillic characters. 1905 Library of Congress creates their own transliteration system 1917 British Academy creates its own system with no reverse transliteration 1959 British Standards Institution creates their own system 1976 The American National Standards Institute publishes a system similar to the BSI system 1990 Late 1990's, Development of algorithms for Machine Transliteration began
