Transliteration and Transcription Guide

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This is a stylistic guide to how to transliterate and transcript proper names from various languages into English. Fortunately, unlike many other languages, English orthography is etymological, meaning that you can pretty much copy the word verbatim and simply expect that an English reader will either Google it or pronounce in whatever way he sees fit.

Still, there are some rules regarding this, mainly in the systems used on this wiki.


 * Since we cover mostly events up to 1930, English rules of that time take precedence over modern ones. This especially concerns cases where we use "K" when back in the day it was "C": "Corea", "Calmuks".
 * Unless specified, we assume that the transliteration system we use is either the same as modern one (preferably the one Wikipedia uses).
 * If specified, only that system is allowed. This also includes systems native to Keine Zeit, like Ukrainian one, so "Kéjiv", not "Kyiv" or "Kiev".
 * English business rule about diacritics (i.e. remove, unless mentioned otherwise) is also applied.

Russian language
When transliterating Russian language, two systems are in place:
 * Russian State and Kazakia are to be translated using | scientific transliteration of Cyrillic with additional specification:
 * "В" without a vowel after it is transliterated as "F" or "FF"
 * Iotated vowels are translated as "I"+vowel in all cases, other than at the beginning of the word. Then you use "Y"+vowel.
 * Soviet Russian is translated using Jakovlev's system.

Ukrainian language

 * Proper names are to be transliterated using Keine Zeit's transliteration system.

Kryvich language

 * Their Latin Script forms the basis. Just remove diacritics/write using only English keyboard.