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Questions tagged [транслитерация]

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 «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 as there are three syllables when Soviet is spoken…
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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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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 some of the best known figures in the literary…
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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 not "official" russian word but I'm still…
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What is the most common transliteration/romanization standard of Cyrillic?

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 Russian? Transliteration Standards
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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 is the original Russian and below that is the…
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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. Is there a standard home row positioning for…
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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: - V chashchakh yuga zhil-byl tsitrus...--da, no falshiviy ekzemplyar! - V chashchakh…
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Is there any Russian surname similar to Macorís?

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 book, are recognizably Russian except for the…
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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 соответствовать « ліо »? Спасибо.
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Under what set of transliteration rules is кс rendered as the latin x?

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 up getting rendered in Latin as having ks…
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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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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 memorizing symbols is no problem as I frequently use…
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Could someone translate this screenshot error message?

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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