Does anyone know how I could transliterate (online) peoples's names from Russian into their English equivalents?
2006-07-18 03:40:09 · 8 answers · asked by Isis 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
There is a standard academic transliteration system which is used in English for transliteration of Russian. Best thing is, find a book or artcile with a lot of footnotes citing sources with Russian titles, and you should be able to figure the system out pretty easily.
2006-07-18 06:10:07 · answer #1 · answered by Bee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Work out how the names are pronounced and then just write them using the latin alphabet which ever way gives the closest pronunciation. You'll have to learn the sounds of the russian alphabet first.
This link might help because it gives the sounds for each letter (eg. the backwards R is pronounced 'ya').
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet
2006-07-18 03:43:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ivan - John, Georgiy - George, Mikhail - Michael, Pavel - Paul, Petr - Peter, Andrei - Andrew, Nikolai - Nicholas
Evgeniya - Jane, Elena - Helen, Elisaveta - Elisabeth, Ekaterina - Catherine
2006-07-18 09:49:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several web sites that deal with languages. Type in "Russian Language" and have fun.
2006-07-18 03:44:01 · answer #4 · answered by Spirit Walker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what exactly do you mean by that ? tell me the names in russian and I can tell you how to translate them, but right now your q is too ambiguous. what names do you need translated?
2006-07-18 03:43:54 · answer #5 · answered by Jackie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want to do that, Natasha, Boris, Tanya, just say them as they are.
2006-07-18 04:43:17 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Sly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I usually use this website http://translit.ru
2006-07-24 05:49:39 · answer #7 · answered by bella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can do it for you. email me at olgakorobova2002@yahoo.com.
2006-07-24 09:40:50 · answer #8 · answered by swimming_dramastar19 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋