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transliteration of a czech word

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Vskutku Just Starting Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 1	Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:16 am    Post subject: transliteration of a czech word What is the most correct conversion of the Czech word "Zabijej" [in English phonetics "ZAB ee YAY"] into Cyrillic, upper-case letters. I did it and came up with ЖАБИЯЙ or ЗАБИЙ. Which are right or at least acceptable? I had it electronically translated and it gave me ЗАБИДЖEДЖ but that's really long and doesn't seem too correct to me. Then again, I'm no expert.
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Generation-P WayToRussified Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 316 Location: SHE WENT TO BARCELONA!	Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:10 pm    Post subject: Re: transliteration of a czech word Vskutku wrote: What is the most correct conversion of the Czech word "Zabijej" [in English phonetics "ZAB ee YAY"] into Cyrillic, upper-case letters. I did it and came up with ЖАБИЯЙ or ЗАБИЙ. Which are right or at least acceptable? I had it electronically translated and it gave me ЗАБИДЖEДЖ but that's really long and doesn't seem too correct to me. Then again, I'm no expert. I think that zabijej should be ЗАБИЕЙ in Russian transliteration. Article about Czech linguistics in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_language ... and more: http://www.czech-language.cz/ ЗАБИЙ isn't correct because of the ending. Russian way to write letter Z is З. If there is diacritic mark, then Ž is written as Ж in Russian, so it shouldn't be ЖАБИЯЙ, if the first letter is Z, not Ž. Czech letter e should written as Э in Russian, bur because there is j in front of the e it becomes E in Russian. I don't understand why did you put Я in the Russian translitteration, clearly there's E not A in the Czech word "zabijej". ЗАБИДЖEДЖ is following French translitteration system and therefore can't be the right form because Czech isn't following the logics of French writing system. Electronic translation obviously speaks no Czech at all. btw, what does zabijej mean? zabijaj in Polish means "kill"
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