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At least German transliteration is 1-to-1. Slavic names among others often have multiple transliterations available. The Russian name Валерий can be rendered fo
by hodgesrm 3y ago
At least German transliteration is 1-to-1. Slavic names among others often have multiple transliterations available. The Russian name Валерий can be rendered for example as Valery, Valeriy, or Valeri. It's very confusing for documents that require the person's name.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Romanization_of_Russian/Harmonization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Romanization_of_Russ...
- bobthepanda 3y agoAlso don't forget Chinese, which due to different romanizations or different dialects being used for the romanization, can result in different outputs depending on whether a person is from PRC, ROC, Macao, Hong Kong, or Singapore.
- krab 3y agoThat's the English transliteration. Don't forget that other Slavic languages also transcribe according to their own rules. For example in Czech, Валерий would be transliterated as Valerij because "j" is pronounced in Czech as English "y" in "you".
- illiac786 3y agoThere's an ISO standard for this. Can't find it but I am 100% sure for russian for example.
- koliber 3y agoTransliteration is a two way street. Non-Russian names get transliterated into Cyrillic inconsistently as well.