[Corpora-List] Soviet Phonetic Alphabet

[Christian Pietsch]

Hi Paul,

although I cannot fully answer your question, I might be able to point
you in the right direction.

One non-IPA phonetic alphabet that was popular in the USSR is named
after Рубен Иванович Аванесов (Ruben Ivanovich Avanesov, also
transcribed as Avanessov). I was able to find one rudimentary chart
mapping it to IPA (or МФА in Russian) and two other phonetic notations
(Щерба/Ščerba/Scerba and Матусевич/Matusevič/Matusevic) that were used
in Soviet Russia. This chart is for Russian only and will not help you
much with Bartang I'm afraid: http://phonetics.spbu.ru/man/pril2.html

The other document I found discusses representing Slavic scripts in
Unicode and touches on Slavic phonetics and Avanesov's notation in
section 3.3:
http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/slavling/downloads/SK_Slavic_Unicode_I.pdf
(Sebastian Kempgen: Unicode 4.1 and Slavic Philology. Problems and
Perspectives (I). In: Computer Applications in Slavic Studies.
Proceedings of "Azbuki.Net" International Conference and Workshop,
24–27 October 2005, Sofia, Bulgaria. Sofija 2006, 131-159.)

I hope this helps a little bit.

Cheers
Christian


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:54:09PM +0000, Paul Johnston wrote:
> I have a book written in the Soviet Union in 1979 and it has  phonetic transcriptions of Bartang proverbs and sayings.
> 
> In addition to the usual Cyrillic characters used for Tajik there are some other different characters.
> 
> There are what I would best describe as "w" (could be Omega \u0460) ,  "=", "a gamma with an inverted circumflex",  " a delta" and "o with diaersis",  "I" (Palochka \u04c0) among others.
> 
> These appear to have been hand written onto the original before it was copied, Ammonia dyeline printing perhaps :-)?
> 
> I assume this is a Soviet version of the IPA but could anyone supply and more details as I would like to convert this into IPA.

-- 
  Christian Pietsch
  http://purl.org/net/pietsch
  Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
  University Library and CRC 882
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