Re: Lukashenka (jara: Country names still needed)

 --- Andreas Johansson skrzypszy:

> It's him. The modern, "official" Swedish transliteration would be "Zjukov".
>
> But surely the German transliteration must be "Schukow"?
No, "Shukow" (IIRC). "Schukow" would be a transliteration of "S^ukov". The
problem with German is that it doesn't have the /Z/ phoneme, and that is why
"sh" was chosen as some sort of compromise.

Another problem with German is that it pronounces _z_ like [ts]. Hence for
example "Jelzin". On the other hand, initial _s_ before a vowel is pronounced
[z], hence "Selkin" instead of "Zelkin". But what to do with initial [s], then?
How to distinguish between "Sacharov" and "Zacharov"? Well, sometimes German
uses double _s_ for [s]: Ssacharow. But often, some sort of compromise is made
with other transcriptions.

Jan

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