• BS 2979:1958

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    Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek characters

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF

    Language(s):  English

    Published date:  30-07-1958

    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    Cooperating organizations
    Foreword (general principles and present recommendations)
    'British' system for Cyrillic
    'International' system for Cyrillic
    Greek
    Notes on Cataloguing and Indexing
    Examples of titles of periodicals - with transliterations
    Section One: 'British' system for Cyrillic: Tables
    Table A. Cyrillic-English transliteration
    Table B. Back transliteration: English-Cyrillic
    Section Two: 'International' system for Cyrillic: Tables
    Table C. Modern Cyrillic transliteration (ISO/R9)
    Table D. Church Slavonic (with numerical values)
    Table E. Rumanian Cyrillic (alfabetul cirilic)
    Table F. Back transliteration: Latin (Roman) - Cyrillic
    Section Three: Greek transliteration: Tables (with note
    on numerical values)
    Table G. Greek-English and English-Greek (with note on
    special signs)
    Appendix. Note on Cyrillic Alphabets

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    Section 1: British traditional-type system (using zh, ch, sh, yu, ya); Table A Cyrillic-to-English transliteration, Table B the back-transliteration, English-to-Cyrillic, Section 2: \'international\' system for modern Cyrillic (Table C), Tables D and E for Church Slavonic and Rumanian Cyrillic. Table F back-transliteration (Latin-to-Cyrillic) for Table C, D and E. Section 3: rule-of-thumb system for Greek, without special regard to phonetic peculiarities of Ancient or Modern Greek, in line with international practice.

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    Committee IDT/2
    Development Note Reviewed and confirmed by BSI, January 2010. (12/2009)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Current

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