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Re: OT: Russian in ASCII?

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 30, 2003, 20:04
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:11:33PM +0100, Jean-François  Colson wrote:
> Is there an official system of transliteration/transcription of Russian into > the Latin alphabet, I mean a system used internationally and/or approved by > the Russian government or by scholars?
There are a variety of more or less official systems. The one used most often in US publications is the Library of Congress (LoC) system. However, the LoC system doesn't work in ASCII; it requires several Unicode characters, such as LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH BREVE (used to render i kratkoe) and the long arc diacritic used in IPA for affricates, which is used to distinguish digraphs from pairs of monographs. Also, e by itself represents the palatized e, and e with an overdot represents э. For what it's worth, here's the system I personally use in ASCII. It's a modification of the LoC system, with j for i kratkoe, io for ё, je instead of just e, etc. In Russian alphabetic order, it runs as follows: a b v g d je jo zh z i j k l m n o p r s t u f kh ts ch sh shch " y ' e ju ja The LoC also includes rules for older Cyrillic letters not used in modern Russian but used in CHurch Slavonic and some other languages; I don't account for those in my system. -Mark

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