Re: Lukashenka (jara: Country names still needed)

Quoting Joe <joe@...>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
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> > Quoting Joe <joe@...>:
> >
> >
> > > > Russian:   Z^ukov
> > > > English:   Zhukov
> > > > German:    Shukow
> > > > Dutch:     Zjoekov
> > > > French:    Joukoff (!)
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Looks like English and Dutch got closest to the actual
> pronunciation.
> >
> > If the thing is stressed on the second syllable, the French version
> should
> be
> > almost spot on, shouldn't it?
> >
> >                                                           Andreas
> >
>
> Should it?  I thought it was pronounced [Zukov], or so, and I'd
> pronounce
> the French one [Zukof].  Or am I pronouncing the Russian wrongly?
I'm quite certain that final Cyrillic B, transliterated as "v", is supposed to
be [f]. The Russian ought to be something like [Zukof], except that the
dreaded Russian vocalic reduction should probably wreck havoc on the
unstressed syllable. We probably need a real Russian by now ...

                                                      Andreas