Transliterating Danish nouns into Russian?

[Robert Orr]

"Kopengagen" and "Copenhagen" are both derived from German.  Copenhagen is 
important enough to have its own name in languages outside Denmark, e.g., 
Kodan, Keypmannahavn, Hafnia.

Transliterating København as
ʸáíõàóí would be like writing Warszawa in an English text.


> Dear colleagues:
>
> A Swedish colleague of mine will soon present an article of his to a fine 
> Russian translator for eventual publication in Russian. He has asked me 
> for some help.
>
> The article contains many Danish street names and other proper nouns. The 
> Russian translator has asked him to provide Cyrillic transliterations of 
> these proper nouns.
>
> My colleague would like to know:
>
> * Is there a standard formula for transliterating from Danish into 
> Russian?
>
> If there isn't, or one can't be found,
>
> * Is there a list of standard transliterations?
>
> It's clear that some Danish proper nouns have been transliterated from 
> English, rather than from how they are pronounced in Danish. For example, 
> Copenhagen is, in Cyrillic, ??????????/ /(Kopengagen). If the 
> transliteration had followed Danish pronunciation, it would have been 
> something like ?????????/./ But it isn't.
>
> He also has a few Norwegian proper nouns.
>
> Still, the usual practice in transliterating from other languages into 
> Russian is to approximate the pronunciation rather than the spelling.
>
> I'd appreciate any guidance here. I'll pass it on to my Swedish colleague 
> (who is not on this list).
>
> Grover Furr
> Montclair State University
>
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