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Re: [Ltru] Fw: I-D Action: draft-falk-transliteration-tags-01.txt

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 15 June 2011 18:05 UTC

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Randy Presuhn scripsit:

>   (3) the "original orthography" is irrelevant for the transliteration
>   systems I've been able to think of.  (At the same time, some
>   transliteration systems are quite "lossy" and some don't do "round
>   trip" very well.)  Consider also the transliteration of material
>   which was originally in audio form...

Transliteration proper maps the symbols of one script onto the symbols
of another, typically in a reversible way.  Therefore, the original
orthography is essential to it: Petrine Russian transliterated to Latin
will look different from modern Russian, because Petrine Russian has
letters that don't exist in modern Russian.

Transcription as opposed to transliteration is specific to a pair of
languages, and is typically not sensitive to the orthography of the
source.

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