| Subject: | Re: [NABOKV-L] [Fwd: Re: [NABOKV-L] (pronouncing "Pnin")] |
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| Date: | Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:27:59 -0400 |
| From: | Michael Donohue <michaeldonohue@HOTMAIL.COM> |
| To: | NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU |
>The Brazilian translator Jorio Dauster informed me that the romanization of >Chinese characters is called "pynin" ( but we have no idea on how this >sounds). Would there be a special name for the transposition of characters >in cyrillic? It's "pinyin," pronounced as two distinct syllable, pin yin.