query about transliteration

[Brewer, Michael]

Carol,

Though I am not certain that it will have the answer to your questions (I am
not sure there is a single system that Russians uniformly use, just as there
is no system that Westerners uniformly use) I do have a fairly extensive
overview of transliteration and transcription on that portion of my Slavic
Information Literacy site (still very much under construction and still very
interested in the input/collaboration of others in the field).  Hopefully
this can be helpful.  Please use IE to view (I hope to resolve the browser
problems at a later date).

Mb

http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/fah/subpathpages/Russian.Slav
ic/RIL/library/transcription/transcription.htm (be sure also to look at the
sub pages linked from the "More Resources" section).

Michael Brewer
German & Slavic Studies and Media Arts Librarian
University of Arizona Library, A210
1510 E. University
P.O. Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Fax 520.621.9733
Voice 520.621.9919
brewerm at u.library.arizona.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Carol R. Ueland [mailto:CUELAND at DREW.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:53 AM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] query about transliteration

Dear Colleagues,
   While we are on the subject of transliteration, can someone tell me where
to find the standard systerm that most Russians use to transliterate
Cyrillic into English?  Many of my friends and colleagues in Russia have
such difficulties with the incompatibilities of coding that we've taken to
just writing in Russian using Latin letters--however I've noticed it's not
either of the systems most commonly used here.  Can anyone enlighten me?
   Thanks in advance, Carol Ueland

-----Original Message-----
From: Natalia Pylypiuk <natalia.pylypiuk at UALBERTA.CA>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:55:28 -0600
Subject: [SEELANGS] query about transliteration

Dear Colleagues,

Would someone please tell me the name of the system that transliterates
the Cyrillic *x* as English *h*.  I have seen this practice among students
from the former USSR.

Being accustomed to the Library of Congress system, which renders
*x* as *kh*, and to the International Standard, which renders it
as *x*, I would like to understand the reasoning behind the use of *h*.


Kind regards,
N. Pylypiuk

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