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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:54:39 -0400
From: "Flynn, Randall E." <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: transliteration guides
Sender: "Flynn, Randall E." <[log in to unmask]>



I can send a pdf file of the US Board on Geographic Names (US BGN) - UK
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) 1947 Romanization System
for Russian to any list member who needs a copy. It is the current system.

There have been no changes made to the US BGN - PCGN 1952 Romanization
System for Bulgarian.

The current edition of the US BGN publication "Romanization Systems and
Roman-Script Spelling Conventions" is dated 1994. It may be obtainable from
USGS (stock number TBGNROMANGUIDE), though rumor has it that it may be out
of stock.

We are attempting to convert all of our US BGN - PCGN romanization system
tables to pdf format for posting at our Geonet Names Server web site. With
luck this will occur before the end of calendar 2001.

Regards,
R. E. Flynn
US Board on Geographic Names
Executive Secretary for Foreign Names
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                From:   Johnnie Sutherland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:24 PM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Re: transliteration guides

                Over the weekend I went searching for a post 1990 USBGN
transliteration guide for the Romanization of the Russian cyrilic alphabet.
A professor on the U of Alberta campus says he was at a conference where a
BGN representative presented a paper on this new system.  He can no longer
locate his notes on that presentation and asked if I could help.  I searched
the sites below but had no luck.  Thanks to anyone who can assist us in
locating this post 1990 BGN system.

                He is also interested in whether the Bulgarian
transliteration table has been modified by the USBGN.

                Ron Whistance-Smith
                Ronald Whistance-Smith <[log in to unmask]>


                  A list of languages, countries and romanization systems
can be found at http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/rom_list.htm .  No links to the
actual guides there however.

                  There is a table on Princeton Univ. Lib.'s Cataloging
documentation at http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/sgman/trrus.html
                  Bulgarian transliteration table from that page.  This is
the LC system with which the prof is familiar.

                  UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names
                  V/18 Romanization of the Russian alphabet for geographical
names
                  The Conference
                  Noting that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has
officially adopted a system for romanizing geographical names of that
country written in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet,

                  Noting also that this system has been applied on maps
produced in the Soviet Union for international use,

                  Recommends that the GOST 1983 system of the Main
Administration of Geodesy and Cartography, set out in the annex to the
present resolution, be adopted as the international system for the
romanization of geographical names in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.

                  Having looked at everything which seemed in any way
pertinent, I think that what the BGN rep was talking about was this GOST
system.  A table of the GOST transliteration and the 1947 system, along with
some explanation, can be found at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/9860/cyralf.html
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