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<div class="">As Martin Haspelmath has pointed out, I introduced the transcription of the authors’ name as the obligatory component of their information in “Linguistic Typology” a few years ago and have repeatedly talked about this initiative in various contexts.
I have also tried to get a few other journals to do this, but to no avail so far. However, as the President (now Vice-President) of the SLE, I also started the discussion about adding this information to the database of the SLE members and in the book of abstracts.</div>
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<div class="">There are many important reasons for doing this. I can talk a lot about this from a personal experience.</div>
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<div class="">All the best,</div>
<div class="">Maria (Masha) <br class="">
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<div class="">On 5 Sep 2026, at 17:57, Yuri Koryakov via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">Many of us have encountered a situation where we need to pronounce the name of a linguist, but we don’t know how. Or we need to write down someone’s name in another script (Cyrillic,
Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, etc.), and this again requires correct pronunciation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">As a result, you have to look for pronunciation instructions on personal webpages, listen to recordings on YouTube, ask friends, and so on, but it is much more convenient when
such information is collected in one place. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">To do this, I created the editable list of names and their transcriptions here:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">The
<b class="">General Guide</b> “How to add your name to the list” is available in the Info tab ( </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFKZp2e6dvfw_JQqX7904xY1GnqOwaopD2gnb3ytilA/edit?gid=863783271#gid=863783271">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zFKZp2e6dvfw_JQqX7904xY1GnqOwaopD2gnb3ytilA/edit?gid=863783271#gid=863783271</a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class=""> ).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">Additional difficulties that this project allows to solve:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">a) distinguishing the surname from other names (necessary for the correct compilation of bibliographies and especially relevant for languages with a different order of components
in the name or for names consisting of more than two words)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">b) indicating gender pronouns – he / she / they – useful in many languages when you need to, for example, refer to the author.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">If you are in doubt whether you should indicate yourself, you can use the following criterion as a working one: if you have published at least one article or had one presentation
at a conference, you can safely provide your name. Also if people pronounce your name differently from how you’d like it to be pronounced, or if you’ve ever been asked how to pronounce your name, that’s a hint that you should provide that information.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">If you can’t/don’t want to add your data to the sheet yourself, you can send it to me by email . Also write if you have any questions/comments/suggestions etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="">Yours,<br class="">
Yuri Koryakov</span></p>
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