Talk:Transcription (linguistics)

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[edit] Transcription and transliteration

I think this page is confusing Transcription with Transliteration, or, rather, not making clear that Tramsliteration is a subset of Transcription. The Boris Yeltsin table seems to me to be transliteration - putting the words into a different alphabet.

FWIW, I think the posting was cut & paste into Wikipedia from somewhere else (cf the qv comment embedded in it; and odd line breaks in the source which I've removed).

It probably needs some more work; but then, what doesn't? --Tagishsimon 00:49, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

As a technical term transliteration is not a subset of transcription - transliteration maps letters to letters, transcription maps sounds to letters. Simplistically speaking, of course - not always letters, and phonemes rather than sounds... As to the examples in the Boris Yeltsin table - they can be interpreted as both transliteration AND crude practical transcription, I think the article should have one main example with IPA and mention the existence of practical (crude) transcription which in journalism equals a mix of transcription and transliteration.

[edit] More on handwritten to typed

How does one show indecipherable portions of a handwritten text, missing portions, insertions, strikethroughs, etc. when transcribing handwritten fragments to typed text. Is there a wikipedia topic that would better describe these mechanics of transcription?

[edit] Could you please check the transcription examples?

I tried to check some of the transcriptions using Google. The following seem to be correct:

But these examples give only links to Wikipedia trascription article and its copies:

Also should not the English transcription of Николаевич rather be Nikolayevich?[6] See also [7]. --pabouk 09:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unencyclopedaic Bores Yellsin list

I'm going to delete most of that list. The purpose of this article is not to show Boris Yelsonn's name in as many phonologies as possible. If it were, there are two more languages I could add. For historical record, here's the last version before the list was trimmed: [8]. Gronky 18:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)