Editing Hittite:Glossing recommendations (section)

== Hands-on transcription transformation guidelines ==
To '''derive a valid Glossing transcription line''' from a traditional transliteration or transcription line, the follwoing hand-on rules may help.

Compare the following table:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Traditional <br/>transliteration <br/>line !! Traditional <br/>transcription <br/>line !! Glossing <br/>transliteration line !! Examples
|-
| align="center" colspan ="2" rowspan="2" | '''.''' || make bound transcription ||  
|-
| keep it (if bound transcription impossible) || LUGAL.GAL → LUGAL.GAL king:great ‘Great King’
|-
| align="center" | {{Red|''':'''}} || || leave out  || 
|-
| align="center" | {{Red|'''-'''}} || || make bound transcription of either the underlying Hittite word or of the Akkadogram, i.e. the Akkadian word  || ''Ku-uš-ša-ra'' → Kussara TOPN ‘''Kussara''’ <br/>URU-''az'' → URUaz city:ABL ‘from (the) city’
|-
| || align="center" | {{Red|'''-'''}} || like “.”, but with sumerograms; <br/>keep italics for sumerogram || GAL-''ŠUNU'' → GAL.''ŠUNU'' great:POSS.3PL.C ‘their leader’ 
|-
| || align="center" | = || keep it ([[Glossing_Rules#Punctuation_equal_sign|clitic]]) || ''me-e-ni-im-me-et'' → mēni=mmet face:ACC.SG.N=POSS.1SG.NOM/ACC.SG.N ‘my face’
|-
| || align="center" | '''(&nbsp;)''' || leave parentheses <br/>and content out || ''n(u)=an'' → n=an CNJ=3SG.ACC.C ‘and him’ 
|-
| align="center"  colspan ="2" | (superscript) || leave classifiers out || <sup>URU</sup>''Kussara'' → Kussara TOPN ‘''Kussara''’
|-
| align="center"  colspan ="2" | {{Red|'''&lt;&nbsp;&gt;'''}} || leave brackets out; <br/>keep content || <sup>URU</sup>''Kussa&lt;ra&gt;'' → Kussara TOPN ‘''Kussara''’
|-
| align="center"  colspan ="2" | '''{&nbsp;}''' || leave brackets and content out || <sup>URU</sup>''Kussa{sa}ra'' → Kussara TOPN ‘''Kussara''’ 
|-
| align="center"  colspan ="2" | '''[&nbsp;]''' || leave brackets out; <br/>keep content or leave it out || <sup>URU</sup>''[Kussa]ra'' → Kussara TOPN ‘''Kussara''’ <br/><sup>URU</sup>''[Kussa]ra'' → [__]ra ‘[''destroyed'']’
|-
| align="center"  colspan ="2" | '''&lceil;&nbsp;&rceil;''' || leave brackets out; <br/>keep content || <sup>URU</sup>''&lceil;Kussa&rceil;ra'' → Kussara TOPN ‘''Kussara''’ 
|}


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