Questions tagged [transliteration]
Questions about transliteration, or converting a text from one writing system to another without translation. Example: "Надя" - "Nadya", "провокация" - "provokatsiya".
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Why is Max Verstappen's last name transliterated with a Ф ('F') instead of a В ('V')?
Russian news articles about Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen, for example this recent one, always seem to transliterate his last name as Ферстаппен instead of (what I would expect) Верстаппен. What is ...
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Representing long vowels in Russian Cyrillic
In Russian, there's no such thing as distinguishing between long and short vowels.
My question is — nevertheless, are there any orthographic rules for representing long vowels in Russian? Do double ...
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Is it "How's your name?"?
Why is it:
Как тебя зовут? = How's your name?
and not:
Что тебя зовут? = What's your name?
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What are the lyrics to this song translated into english? [closed]
Улыбка - Крошка енот - Moscow Boys' Choir DEBUT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNQrVKUjws
The video says its from the song or poem Smile from "Baby Raccoon".
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Could someone translate this screenshot error message? [closed]
my mobile app facebook login review is rejected.
but the reject screenshot may written russian language (i’m not sure 🤔)
could someone translate it?
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Best transliteration of Каврайский [closed]
I'm investigating the most accurate English transliteration of the family name "Каврайский", which is from Владимир Владимирович Кавра́йский, and is used to describe a series of named map ...
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Rendering of names in East Slavic languages
I've noticed that when rendering the name of a person from one East Slavic language to another, it's usually changed to the native spelling of the target language. For example, the name "Vladimir ...
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Why is «Совет» Transliterated to "Soviet" in English Instead of "Sovyet"?
The word Совет seems to always be transliterated in English as Soviet. However, it seems to me that it would be more appropriately transliterated as Sovyet.
I think this is the most logical variant ...
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Transliteration of the name "Seraphina"
I would like to translate that name as "Зерафина" but a Russian speaking friend tells me that you can only translate "Seraphina" as Серафина.
So are both transliterations for Seraphina correct, or ...
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Any official (government) sources for standardized tables or charts for English-to-Russian transliteration? [closed]
Does anyone have a link to an official Russian or American/UK (government) source of some charts/tables that standardize transliteration of Cyrillic (Russian in particular) letters to Roman (English) ...
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Russian pronunciation of /etc (a directory)
Abstracting from the fact that it is usually pronounced as in English, how /etc (https://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/etc-fs.html) should be pronounced in Russian? I was under the impression that, as it ...
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soviet maps toponym or descriptor [closed]
i am currently working with soviet maps of Saudi Arabia dated to the 1980s, supposedly based on aerial imagery from the late 1970s. These are general topographic maps, no specific theme or even ...
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What is the best Russian translation fo word Nest in technical context?
What is the best Russian translation fo word Nest in technical context ? For example:
f[x] applies f to x. f[f[x]] applies f to f[x], or effectively nests the application of f. It’s common to want ...
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Sergei Rachmaninov or Rachmaninoff [closed]
I am writing a novel in English. My transliteration novel uses -ov for surnames (Danilov, Kirilov). For consistency sake I would like to spell out Sergei Rachmaninov as such, though he is more ...
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Как правильнее транслитерировать/перевести имя Jian-Yang?
Как правильнее транслитерировать/перевести имя Jian-Yang ? (персонаж из "Silicon Valley")
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Transliterating double letters in names
Is there a specific reason that, when transliterating an English name, double letters are carried over into the Cyrillic? Specific example: My daughter's name is Tillie. This is an unusual name even ...
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Transliterating English -u- (-ʌ-) as Russian -е-
Where did the curious tradition of transliterating English u (sound ʌ) as Russian е come from? I remember at least three examples off the top of my head: trust -> трест, lunch - ленч (now obsolete), ...
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Do any transliterated Russian names begin with the letter C?
I am trying to come up with some search heuristics for Russian first names and it would speed up the process if I could eliminate searching through certain names. There's obvious letters that could I ...
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What is the correct way to transliterate O'Neil or a similar name?
Not sure how to correctly write this - as one word, separate? Do I retain the apostrophe?
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Can someone translate this shirt for me? [closed]
I think it says good! all is well when the wind blows, but can someone write this in print! (like: хорошо! всё) thanks!
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Is there any Russian surname similar to Macorís? [closed]
This is the 1840s confirmation record of a Russian convert to Catholicism. The names of his parents back in Kamchatka, probably orally reported to the Spanish-speaking priest who wrote in the register ...
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Why is щ transliterated as "shch"?
It doesn't match with the pronunciation of the letter in Russian at all. A transliteration closer to the spelling would be rather "shj", "sh' " or something similar.
Besides, I've seen it ...
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Help with a Kazakh postal address [closed]
I want to send a card to a friend in Kazakhstan. The address as she once gave me is:
Kostanai city, Abaya 9/1, 1 "B"
and I believe the postal code is 110005 (but may be wrong).
From my looking ...
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"Vrra" is a hispanization of which Russian word?
Mariano Payeras, a Spanish priest, wrote in an 1822 diary entry:
As a last courtesy our officers said goodbye to all the Russians who saluted us with four cannon shots, hat waving, and gestures, ...
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When were names ending in -в romanized with -ff? [closed]
Russian surnames ending in -в used to be transliterated for English speakers with ff, e.g. "Petroff" and "Prokofieff". Today v seems more accepted. None of the various modern and historical ...
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What is the correct Russian spelling of "Trump"? [closed]
What is the correct Russian spelling of the last name of the US President-elect, Donald Trump? I've seen both Трамп and Трумп. Which is correct?
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Communicate to Russians with only Latin alphabet
I play a mobile game that has a number of Russians in my guild. I can type out what they say in Google Translate, but on my phone I only have the Latin A-Z available. I know I could go get a Russian ...
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What is the most common transliteration/romanization standard of Cyrillic? [duplicate]
I have been told it is Scholarly however this is impossible to type on a US keyboard. Could anyone please enlighten me as to what is the most common, or perhaps the most well understood by the average ...
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what does this translate to in english? [closed]
What does this translate to in English? ПРЕВЬЫШЕНА НАГРУЗКА на сервер. ведется техоБслуживание.
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What do "базовая линия" and "профиль" mean in this text?
I've been trying to get a good translation of a Russian programming article. I more or less get the gist of what it is saying through google translate but some parts come out badly translated. Below ...
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Липсинг или Липсинк?
Is there any explanation why a lot of sites use "липсинг" word instead of "липсинк"? Obviously it's russian version of the "lip-sync" word and should be written as "липсинк". Sure thing I know it's ...
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Соотношение объёма русского и английского текста
Недавно в статье наткнулся на такое высказывание Гилберта Доктороу (Gilbert Doctorow):
Русская версия текста занимает 26 страниц мелким шрифтом. Ею я и пользовался, потому что предпочитаю иметь ...
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What is home row for touch typing on a йцукен layout?
In English touch-typing on a qwerty keyboard, the default position of the fingers is asdf (left) and hjkl (right). The Russian keys extend further to the right, owing to the greater number of letters.
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Given name transliteration: "Keith"
Is there an accepted Russian transliteration of the given name "Keith"? It appears θ is often transliterated as ф, but it doesn't feel correct in this case (of course I don't know). Кит, Кис, Киз? ...
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Транскрипция польского слога « lo » до революции
Как передавали в царские времена польское буквосочетание « lo »?
Транскипция « ліо » была тогда возможной? Кажется, сегодня пишут « лё », даже в безударных слогах: Википедия
Чему могло бы ...
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Is код the best way to translate "code" (noun)
In the context of programming code (as a noun, not a verb.)
plus: what about development?
(Sorry I'm a beginner.)
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Почему Нью-Йорк (New York) по-русски пишется через дефис?
A follow-up question from How do you translate FreeBSD into Russian?, what is the rule that makes New York have a hyphen when written in proper Russian?
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Translation of "Кир, сир"
I am just beginning to learn Russian and I've started translating an online book after memorizing the sounds of the Russian alphabet. I'm a tactile learner who is really fond of mathematics, so ...
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Learning Russian - Can someone explain what that means?
I am learning Russian and I've stumbled upon this piece of text.
I can't quite figure out what it says...
Однажды я гулял по лесу, вижу колодец. Подхожу к нему, захожу в лифт,
сажусь на ...
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Translation/transliteration question - "I never know what to say in these moments".
I came across this line in a movie scene (at about 20 seconds in the video).
"I never know what to say in these moments"
I looked up the translation in google translate -
And the ...
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What's so showy about this common Scottish surname?
I find it curious that (arguably) one of the easiest to pronounce English/Scottish surnames -- Shaw -- is consistently reappearing on the Russian soil as Шоу.
This spelling/pronunciation applies to ...
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Are there loanwords from English where "h" is transliterated to "х" rather than "г"?
Russian doesn't have a direct equivalent to the sound of English h.
But to some English speakers it seems odd that words taken into Russian from English which have an h sound are transliterated using ...
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Under what set of transliteration rules is кс rendered as the latin x? [closed]
I have followed a couple of different methods (Iso 9 and Passport 2010) and have looked at others which are mentioned on this wiki page, but no matter what I do, something like the name Александр ends ...
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Which one of these two pangram transliterations is correct?
I found a Russian pangram:
В чащах юга жил-был цитрус...—да, но фальшивый экземпляръ!
I have two transliterations of it, but I don't know which one is correct:
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Почему Евклид, а не Эвклид?
Why is Евклид spelled with Е in Russian? All the other words and names with Greek origin starting with E that I can think of are spelled with Э in Russian.
Эратосфен, эвтаназия, эвристика
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