Questions tagged [transliteration]
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Do barbarians have nomina?
The word nomen means, literally, "name". But it also refers to the most important part of a Roman citizen's name, the part indicating which gens they belong to.
Barbarian names were frequently ...
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Why choose σ versus σσ in Hebrew loans?
The LXX provides a wide variety of Hebrew, Aramaic, and other Semitic words transcribed into Greek. Most of the transcriptions are straightforward: the letter lamedh ל, for example, is always ...
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Why was Z used in digraphs?
According to this other question, Late Latin used various digraphs with the letter Z in them, for sounds which might have been /ts/, /dz/, and /z/. If the letter Z was used for /z/ at the time, the ...
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What is the proper Greek title for the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus?
I'm asking here because I think the In Praise of Folly wiki may have an error in the Greek transliteration:
Μωρίας ἐγκώμιον (Morias enkomion)
My initial thought was the gamma is the typo, and that ...
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Quintilian's name in Ancient Greek
I just saw a Quora post stating the Romanian spelling "cvorum", "cvintuplu", "cvartet" proves the Romans pronounced qu as kv. I tried to back up the contrary claim with Latin-to-Greek transliterations,...
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Latin transliteration of Ιησούς
Can someone please show me how the Latin Iesus came from Iesous? It sounds like a shorter form of it. Is it just because certain sounds from the Greek wasn't in Latin?
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When transliterating from Latin to Greek, what kind of rho is used?
In Latin there is only one type of R and as far as I know the combination RH does not appear in native Latin words.
The corresponding Greek letter rho can have two kinds of breathing (rough ῥ, ...
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Is there a Latin standard for transliterating Russian?
Consider the Russian last name Тихонов (of a mathematician).
The most common transliteration I have seen in English (mathematical literature) is Tychonoff, and the transliteration according to Finnish ...
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How to transliterate 中文 in Mandarin pronunciation to Latin?
I am working on an art project that I would like to collect the hundreds of different transliterations of 「中文」 zhōng wén in Mandarin Chinese. (Pronunciation available here: https://translate.google....
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M N U V confusion in textura
I have two transcription problems in a glossed Genesis from southern France. The topic is the double Creation of Man narrative. The first problem is caused by the similarity of u m n v in the script.
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