Cyrillic Transliteration pt.1

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1 total messages Started by Michael Wise Sun, 03 Jan 1993 02:34

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Author: Michael Wise
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 02:34

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EL> I'd like to use a Cyrillic font for displaying Russian on a
EL> terminal, but the transliteration schemes make this come out no
EL> closer to Russian.
 
Unfortunately, it is impossible to make a Russian-English transliteration scheme that will yield perfect letter for letter transliterations by using only ASCII characters.
 
EL> I am guessing that Russians don't use the "zh", "shch" etc.
EL> conventions, since this is an English orthographic convention.
 
Surprisingly enough, they do. (see Russian telex standard below)
 
EL> Would some kind soul be willing to explicate the vagaries of
EL> how Cyrillic is | can be | ought to be rendered via ASCII?
 
I'll give it my best shot.
 
Privet El,
You asked some good questions, and I will endeavor to answer them.
 
There are several transliteration schemes for the Russian alphabet.
 
1) The standard endorsed by the Slavic and East-European Journal (SEEJ).  This is the standard used in scholarly work,  It will transliterate back to Cyrillic almost perfectly. (The exception is the Latin "e", which can represent either "e" or "jo".  It includes hatcheks, thus will not work in the ASCII environment.
 
A, B, V G, D, E, E, Z (with hatchek), Z, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, F, X, C, C (with hatchek), S (with hatchek) Sc (both with hatcheks) ", Y, ', E (with grave accent `), Ju, Ja
 
 
2) Library of Congress standard.  This standard can be rendered in ASCII.  It does not provide for perfect transliteration though. In this standard, "I" is used for "I" as well as "I kratkoe, whereas the SEEJ standard uses I and J respectively.  Also, the LOC standard uses "Iu" and "Ia."  You can see how this may lead to some confusion as to how to determine if "ia" is being used as one letter or as two letters ( i + a) Note also that the SEEJ standard uses "X" and "C" while most of the other standards use



s "Kh" and "Ts" respectively.
 
A, B, V, G, D, E, E, Zh, Z, I, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, F, Kh, Ts, Ch, Sh, Shch, ", Y, ', E, Iu, Ia
  
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