BS 2979:1958
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Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek characters
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30-07-1958
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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
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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IDT/2
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| DevelopmentNote |
Reviewed and confirmed by BSI, January 2010. (12/2009)
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Standard
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| Pages |
24
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| PublisherName |
British Standards Institution
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Current
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