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[dakegra]

Dear megamole (and any other linguists or students of cyrillic)

A discussion elsewhere is raging* on how "царь" is spelled in a Western alphabet. Current options are Czar, Csar, Tzar or Tsar.

I know which my preferred option is, but I believe that you are well-placed to proffer an opinion?




* for a given value of 'rage'

Comments

[megamole.livejournal.com]

ц = "ts". IPA agrees - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_chart_for_Russian .

The C spellings attempt to link the word "Tsar" to "Caesar", its ultimate derivation. "Tzar" is flat out wrong.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

jolly good, that's what I thought. :-)