Romanization of Bulgarian

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The new system is not always used properly. One of these signposts in Sofia shows the name of the district of Lozenets written according to the international scientific system of transliteration (c = ts), but in the other the name of the Irish journalist James Bourchier has been "relatinised" according to the official Bulgarian system (Dzheyms Baucher), even though the system does not apply to names that have authentic Roman spellings. Signposts in Sofia.JPG
The new system is not always used properly. One of these signposts in Sofia shows the name of the district of Lozenets written according to the international scientific system of transliteration (c = ts), but in the other the name of the Irish journalist James Bourchier has been "relatinised" according to the official Bulgarian system (Dzheyms Baucher), even though the system does not apply to names that have authentic Roman spellings.

Romanization of Bulgarian is the practice of transliteration of text in Bulgarian from its conventional Cyrillic orthography into the Latin alphabet. Romanization can be used for various purposes, such as rendering of proper names and place names in foreign-language contexts, or for informal writing of Bulgarian in environments where Cyrillic is not easily available. Official use of romanization by Bulgarian authorities is found, for instance, in identity documents and in road signage. Several different standards of transliteration exist, one of which was chosen and made mandatory for common use by the Bulgarian authorities in a law of 2009. [1] [2] [3]

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Features

The various romanization systems differ with respect to 12 out of the 30 letters of the modern Bulgarian alphabet. The remaining 18 have consistent mappings in all romanization schemes: а→a, б→b, в→v, г→g, д→d, е→e, з→z, и→i, к→k, л→l, м→m, н→n, о→o, п→p, р→r, с→s, т→t, ф→f. Differences exist with respect to the following:

Standards

Three different systems have been adopted officially by Bulgarian authorities at overlapping times.

ISO/R 9:1968

An older system in the tradition of common Slavic scientific transliteration was adopted by the Council of Orthography and Transcription of Geographical Names in Sofia in 1972 and subsequently by the UN in 1977. [4] It is identical to that codified in the ISO norm ISO/R 9:1968. This system uses diacritic letters (č, š, ž) as well as j and c. It was adopted in 1973 as the Bulgarian state standard BDS 1596:1973 which, although still valid formally [5] is no longer used in practice, [6] having been superseded by the 2009 Transliteration Act.

French-oriented

The second system was a French-oriented transliteration of personal and place names in the documents issued by the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior for travel abroad, used until 1999. [7]

English-oriented digraph systems

Systems based on a radically different principle, which avoids diacritics and is optimized for compatibility with English sound-letter correspondences, [8] have come into official use in Bulgaria since the mid-1990s. These systems characteristically use ch, sh, zh rather than č, š, ž, and y rather than j.

Danchev

One such system was proposed in Danchev et al.'s English Dictionary of Bulgarian Names of 1989. [9]

Streamlined System

A similar system (differing from the former in the treatment of letters ъ, у, and digraphs ай, ей, ой and уй), called the "Streamlined System" by Ivanov (2003) [8] and Gaidarska (1998), [10] was adopted in 1995 [11] [12] for use in Bulgarian-related place names in Antarctica by the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria. [13] Another system along similar lines, differing from the Antarctic one only in the treatment of ц (ts vs. c), was adopted by the Bulgarian authorities for use in identity documents in 1999; [8] after an amendment in 2000, the official Bulgarian system became identical with that of the Antarctica Commission.

The new official Bulgarian system does not allow for unambiguous mapping back into Cyrillic, since unlike most other systems it does not distinguish between ъ and а (both rendered as a). It also does not distinguish between the digraph values of zh=ж, sh=ш and the value of the same Roman strings in rendering accidental clusters of separate Cyrillic letters zh=зх and sh=сх, as they occur in words like изход (izhod) or схема (shema). [6]

New Orthographic Dictionary system

A modification of the system using a diacritic was proposed in the authoritative New Orthographic Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language [14] in 2002, with ъ rendered as ă rather than a. However, that proposal was not adopted for official usage, and failed to become established in popular practice.

Streamlined System with -ia-exception

An exception to the rules was introduced by the Bulgarian authorities in 2006, mandating the transliteration of word-final -ия as -ia rather than -iya in given names and geographical names (such as Ilia, Maria and Bulgaria, Sofia, Trakia etc.). [15] [16] [17] In 2009, a law passed by the Bulgarian parliament made this system mandatory for all official use and some types of private publications, expanding also the application of the ia-exception rule to all -ия in word-final position. [1]

The Streamlined system was adopted by UN [18] [19] in 2012, and by BGN and PCGN [20] [21] in 2013.

According to Arenstein, "The international roots of the Bulgarian romanization system strike at the core of one of romanization's most perplexing paradoxes: an impulse to redefine and distinguish national identity while also ensuring the accessibility of that identity to outside groups. In other words, instilling nationalism with a sense of internationalism." [3]

Streamlined System with unambiguous reverse mapping

A variant of the Streamlined System allowing for unambiguous mapping back into Cyrillic was proposed by Ivanov, Skordev and Dobrev in 2010 to be used in cases when the retrieval of the original Cyrillic forms is essential. [6] For that purpose, certain Cyrillic letters and combinations of letters are transliterated as follows: ъ→`a, ь→`y, зх→z|h, йа→y|a, йу→y|u, сх→s|h, тс→t|s, тш→t|sh, тщ→t|sht, шт→sh|t, шц→sh|ts, ия (in final position, if the ia-exception rule is applied) →i|a. The standard transliteration form of a given text is obtained from its unambiguously reversible one by simply removing the additional symbols ` (grave accent) and | (vertical bar).

Other

Systems along similar lines to the new official Bulgarian system, though with differences regarding the letters х, ъ, ь, ю and я, have also been in use in the ALA-LC Romanization scheme of the Library of Congress, British Standard 2959:1958, the now-superseded 1952 BGN/PCGN romanization of the United States and British geographic naming institutions, and the 1917 system of the British Academy. [22]

The ISO 9 standard, in its 1995 version, has introduced another romanization system that works with a consistent one-to-one reversible mapping, resorting to rare diacritic combinations such as â,û,ŝ.

The GOST 7.79-2000 "Rules of transliteration of Cyrillic script by Latin alphabet" contains an unambiguous and reversible ASCII-compatible transliteration system for Bulgarian: й→j, х→x, ц→c or cz, ч→ch, ш→sh, щ→sth, ъ→a`, ь→`, ю→yu, я→ya.

Archaic letters

The archaic Cyrillic letters ѣ and ѫ, which were part of the pre-1945 orthography of Bulgarian, are variously transcribed as ⟨i͡e, e⟩, as ⟨ya, ě⟩, and as ⟨u̐, ŭǎ⟩, respectively, in the ALA/LC, BGN/PCGN and ISO 9 standards.

Comparison table

Cyrillic ISO 9
(1995)
Scientific
ISO 9 (1968)
ALA/LC [23] British Standard

(1958) [24]

BGN/PCGN
(1952)
Official Bulgarian (2006);
UN (2012);
BGN/PCGN (2013)
Danchev [9]
а a
б b
в v
г g
д d
е e
ж žzh
з z
и i
й jĭyy, i
к k
л l
м m
н n
о o
п p
р r
с s
т t
тсt-st∙s
у uou
ф f
х hkhh
ц ct͡sts
ч čch
ш šsh
щ ŝštsht
ъ ǎŭ (ʺ) [25] ŭa [26] u
ь ʹjʹʼ, 'ʼy
ю ûjui͡uyu
я âjai͡aya [27]
Archaic letters
ѫ ǎȧūŭ
ѣ ěi͡eêe, ya
Cyrillic ISO 9
(1995)
Scientific
ISO 9 (1968)
ALA/LC British BGN/PCGN
(pre-2013)
Official Bulgarian (2006);
UN (2012);
BGN/PCGN (2013)
Danchev [9]

Romanization sample

Original text in Cyrillic BGN/PCGN romanizationScientific transliterationIPA transcriptionEnglish translation
Всички хора се раждат свободни и равни по достойнство и права. Те са надарени с разум и съвест и следва да се отнасят помежду си в дух на братство.Vsichki hora se razhdat svobodni i ravni po dostoynstvo i prava. Te sa nadareni s razum i savest i sledva da se otnasyat pomezhdu si v duh na bratstvo.Vsički hora se raždat svobodni i ravni po dostojnstvo i prava. Te sa nadareni s razum i sǎvest i sledva da se otnasjat pomeždu si v duh na bratstvo.[ˈfsitʃki ˈxɔrɐ sɛ ˈraʒdɐt svоˈbɔdni i ˈravni pɔ doˈstɔjnstvo i ˈpravɐ ‖ tɛ sɐ nɐˈdarɛni s‿ˈrazom i ˈsɤvɛst i ˈslɛdvɐ dɐ sɛ otˈnasʲɐt promɛʒˈdu si v‿dux nɐ ˈbratstvo ‖]All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Personalized and stylized writing

Some people and companies prefer to use or retain personalized spellings of their own names in Latin. Examples are the politicians Ivan Stancioff (instead of "Stanchov") and Simeon Djankov [28] (instead of "Dyankov"), and the beer brand Kamenitza (instead of Kamenitsa). The freedom of using different Roman transliterations of personal names is guaranteed by Article 2(2) of the governmental 2010 Regulation for Issuing of Bulgarian Personal Documents. [29]

Informal writing

Sometimes, especially in e-mail or text messaging, the Cyrillic alphabet is not available and people are forced to write in Roman script. This often does not follow the official or any other of the standards listed above, but rather is an idiosyncratic Bulgarian form of text speak. While most letters are straightforward, several can take different forms. The letter variants listed below are often used interchangeably with some or all of the above standards, often in the same message.

Cyrillic letterLatin variantExamplesNotes
жj, zh, z, (rarely: w)plaj (плаж, beach)
kozha (кожа, skin)
vezliv (вежлив, polite)
j - the sound of ж is represented by j in French, the English sound of j is also similar
zh - official transliteration
z - shortened version of zh or stripped version of ž
йi, y, jiod (йод, iodine)
mayoneza (майонеза, mayonnaise)
Jordan (Йордан, name Yordan)
j - more rarely used, but especially in words that are foreign to Bulgarian and with j in Latin script
цccarevica (царевица, corn)c almost exclusively represents ц despite the official transliteration of the Cyrillic letter being ts
ч4, ch4ovek (човек, human)In Bulgarian the number 4 is chetiri (четири); additionally and perhaps more importantly the glyph ⟨4⟩ looks similar to ⟨ч⟩; this is also used in Volapuk encoding
ш6, sh, (rarely: w)be6e (беше, It was)In Bulgarian the number 6 is shest (шест)
щ6t, sht, (rarely: 7)sno6ti (снощи, yesterday at night / yesternight)6t - a combination 6+t to represent the sound of щ
7 - since in the Cyrillic alphabet щ follows ш, 7 can be used as it follows 6 (ш)
ъa, u, y, 1, (rarely: @, `)sanuva (сънува, dreams)
Bulgaria
pyzel (пъзел, puzzle)
v1n (вън, outside)
1 - the number may resemble the letter ъ.
юu, y, yu, ju, iuzumbyul (зюмбюл, hyacinth)As a single letter diphthong the letter ю has many variations
яq, ya, ja, iakonqk (коняк, cognac)As a single letter diphthong the letter я has many variations but the most common is the single letter q as it resembles я.

There is no set rule, and people often vary the combinations within a single message, so that "ъ" may be presented as "u", "a" or "y" in three adjacent words, and "щ" can be "sht" in one word, and "6t" in the next, and "ю" may be written differently in the same word. Conversely, "j" could be used to represent "й", "ж" and even "дж" in adjacent words, while "y" can be used for "ъ" in one word and for "й" in the next.

This unofficial email/SMS language is often referred to as "shlyokavitsa" [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] The use of Latinised Bulgarian, while ubiquitous in personal communication, is frowned upon in certain internet contexts, and many websites' comment sections and internet forums have rules stating that posts in Roman script will be deleted. [36] [37] [38]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 State Gazette # 19, 13 March 2009. ISSN   0205-0900 (in Bulgarian)
  2. G. Selvelli. Su alcuni aspetti ideologici dei sistemi di traslitterazione degli alfabeti cirillici nei Balcani. Archived 2016-06-24 at the Wayback Machine Studi Slavistici XII (2015). pp. 159–180. (in Italian)
  3. 1 2 Arenstein, B. (2018). "Scripted History: Hebrew Romanization in Interwar British Mandate Palestine" (PDF). Columbia University. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 31, 2023. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  4. UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems, ("Bulgarian" version 3.0, March 2009)
  5. BDS 1596:1973 Transliteration of Bulgarian words with Latin characters Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine . Bulgarian Institute for Standardization (BDS) website.
  6. 1 2 3 L. Ivanov, D. Skordev and D. Dobrev. The New National Standard for the Romanization of Bulgarian. Mathematica Balkanica. New Series Vol. 24, 2010, Fasc. 1-2. pp.121-130. ISSN   0205-3217
  7. Focus News Agency [ permanent dead link ]. 2 February 2008. (in Bulgarian)
  8. 1 2 3 L.L. Ivanov, On the Romanization of Bulgarian and English, Contrastive Linguistics, XXVIII, 2003, 2, pp. 109-118. ISSN   0204-8701; Errata, id., XXIX, 2004, 1, p. 157.
  9. 1 2 3 A. Danchev, M. Holman, E. Dimova and M. Savova. An English Dictionary of Bulgarian Names: Spelling and Pronunciation. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo Publishers, 1989. 288 pp.
  10. M. Gaidarska. The Current State of the Transliteration of Bulgarian Names into English in Popular Practice, Contrastive Linguistics, XXII, 1998, 112, pp. 69-84. ISSN   0204-8701
  11. Inventaire des outils de romanisation. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. Ottawa 2006. (in French) (2019 edition, in English)
  12. Interscript. Apcbg 1995 Bulgarian.
  13. L.L. Ivanov, Toponymic Guidelines for Antarctica , Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 1995.
  14. V. Stankov (ed.). New Orthographic Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Sofia: Hazel Publishers, 2002. p. 51. ISBN   978-954-8283-61-8
  15. Regulations for the issuing of Bulgarian identity documents (Amendment), State Gazette #83 of 2006. ISSN   0205-0900 (in Bulgarian)
  16. Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, Ordinance #3 of 26 October 2006 on the Transliteration of the Bulgarian Geographical Names in Latin Alphabet, State Gazette # 94, 21 November 2006. ISSN   0205-0900 (in Bulgarian)
  17. United Nations Document E/CONF.98/CRP.71. 17 August 2007.
  18. Report on the Current Status of United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names. Compiled by the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems, February 2013.
  19. Romanization System In Bulgaria. Tenth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. New York, 2012.
  20. Romanization system for Bulgarian: BGN/PCGN 2013 System. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, September 2014.
  21. Romanization system for Bulgarian: BGN/PCGN 2013 Agreement.
  22. British Academy. Transliteration of Slavonic: Report of the Committee for the Transliteration into English of Words Belonging to Russian and Other Slavonic Languages. Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. VIII (1917). 20 pp.
  23. "Bulgarian" (PDF). ALA-LC Romanization Tables (The Library of Congress). Retrieved 2021-02-26.
  24. BS 2979:1958 Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek Characters, BSI Group, 30 July 1958, Wikidata   Q105693940
  25. ALA-LC: Ъ in final position is romanized as ʺ (mainly found in pre-1945 texts).
  26. except in the word Bulgaria (2006 official system)
  27. except in word-final -ия (2006 official system)
  28. Simeon Djankov will give a lecture at the London Business School Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine , Ministry of Finance (Bulgaria), 10 Feb 2012. Retrieved Mar 2013.
  29. Regulation for Issuing of Bulgarian Personal Documents. Government Decree #13 of 8 February 2010.
  30. , or "maymunitsa", or "Metodievitsa". The form of the word shlyòkavitsa follows the pattern of alphabet names, such as "Kirilitsa" (Cyrillic), "Glagolitsa" (Glagolitic) and "Latinitsa" (Roman script), but is also a synonym for a low-quality rakia (bg:shlyokavitsa).
  31. Thoughts on Cyrillic and Shlyokavitsa (in Bulgarian), Dnevnik, 7 Feb 2013. Retrieved Mar 2013.
  32. From Glagolitic to Shlyokavitsa (in Bulgarian) [ permanent dead link ], Ivan Popov's Blog, 15 Dec 2011. Retrieved Mar 2013.
  33. On the Shlyokavitsa initiative (in Bulgarian) Archived 2012-04-20 at the Wayback Machine , Yovko.net, April 2004. Retrieved Mar 2013.
  34. "Shlyokavitsa Initiative" homepage (in Bulgarian) Archived 2021-09-23 at the Wayback Machine , 6lyokavitza.org. Retrieved Mar 2013.
  35. Satirical Cartoons – "Directorate for the Utilization of Sofia" – Щ deathbed (6, t: "We're here, dad!", Щ: "My children..."), Jul 2011; Alphabet scroll (= "а б в...ц ч...ш щ"), May 2011. Retrieved Mar 2013.
  36. Chitanka literature website (in Bulgarian), Chitanka.info. Retrieved Mar 2013.
  37. Ovo forum (rule 1.a) Archived 2021-01-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Bulgarian), Ovo.bg, 28 Aug 2010. Retrieved Mar 2013.
  38. Sheep Place/Bubbalog blog rules Archived 2018-08-21 at the Wayback Machine (in Bulgarian). Retrieved Mar 2013.

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