query about transliteration
Eric Naiman
naiman at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU
Thu Apr 22 04:33:55 UTC 2004
"There is no k sound about it, as the usual kh transliteration
unfortunately suggests to the English eye. I have used kh only in one or
two cases when s precedes it (for example, skhodil, "descended"), to avoid
confuseion with sh."
Nabokov, "Method of Transliteration", vol 1 of Onegin trans, p.xxiii.
Somewhere else -- perhaps in Nabokov-Wilson letters -- I think Nabokov
justifies this choice at greater length.
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Natalia Pylypiuk wrote:
> 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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