Cyrillic transliteration of Mandarin (was Re: Yet Another Dumb IPA Question)
| From: | Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 9, 2003, 9:11 |
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Peter Clark scripsit:
> > IMHO a standard Cyrillic transliteration of Mandarin is nice-looking,
> > effective and quite precise.
> Would you be able to post it to the list? (Feel free to use either
koi8 or
> UTF-8.)
Ok. Here it is in koi8-r.
Pinyin - Cyrillic transliteration
Initials:
b - б
p - п
m - м
f - ф
d - д
t - т
n - н
l - л
g - г
k - к
h - х
j - цз (followed with palatal vowels)
z - цз
q - ц (followed with palatal vowels)
c - ц
x - с (followed with palatal vowels)
s - с
zh - чж
ch - ч
sh - ш
r - ж
w - в (see below)
y - shown by palatal vowels
Finals:
a - а
o - о
e - э, ы (reduced)
i - ы (after z, c, s, zh, ch, sh, r), - и (elsewhere, palatal!)
u - у
u" - юй (palatal)
er - эр
ai - ай
ei - эй
ao - ао
ou - оу
an - ань
en - энь
ang - ан
eng - эн
ong - ун
ia - я
ie - е
iao - яо
iu - ю
ian - янь
in - инь
iang - ян
ing - ин
iong - юн
(all those are palatal)
ua - уа
uo - о
uai - уай
ui - уй (in certain cases in newspapers - уэй)
uan - уань
un - унь
uang - уан
u"e - юе
u"an - юань
u"n - юнь
(all those are palatal)
> :Peter
Yitzik
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