> Accurate transliteration should be fine though. There are also Slavic languages, such as Polish or Czech, that use the Latin alphabet. Yeah, that leads to th

> Accurate transliteration should be fine though. There are also Slavic languages, such as Polish or Czech, that use the Latin alphabet. Yeah, that leads to the question of which transliteration to use. > One of the annoying things about Latin transliteration is that people use different phonetics of western languages. Eng Michael(?) Gorbachev, Ger Michail Gorbatschow, Swe Mikhail Gorbatjov... > Should you use y or j for palatal sounds? 'Xackly: Eng/Ger Boris Yeltsin, Swe Boris Jeltsin.