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Why is it Lunokhod? It should be Lunohod (MoonWalker). Russian writing Луноход. I hope author of the blog answers my email.
by Nikbul 5y ago
Why is it Lunokhod? It should be Lunohod (MoonWalker). Russian writing Луноход. I hope author of the blog answers my email.
- userbinator 5y agoBecause х is romanised as kh.
- hulitu 5y agoMaybe in english.
- kingofpandora 5y agoIt's an English-language website so why wouldn't they use English transliteration?
- aix1 5y agoThere are many systems for romanising Russian. Most of them use kh for х (including those used by US/UK for Russian place names, names in Russian passports, road signs in Russia). Wikipedia has a handy table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian#Transliteration_table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian#Transl... As to why it is that way, I don't know. Some closely related languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian) follow different conventions. For example, the national system in Belarus transliterates х as ch and г as h.
- paoloatti 5y agoHello, I'm Paolo Attivissimo, the poster of the original article. I am using the "Lunokhod" spelling because this is the spelling used by NASA and many other reference sources, including Anatoly Zak's RussianSpaceWeb http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetary_lunar.html http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetary_lunar.ht...
- js8 5y agoBecause 'h' and 'kh' usually denote different sounds, the latter encodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative.