Customer Support: 131 242

  • There are no items in your cart
We noticed you’re not on the correct regional site. Switch to our AMERICAS site for the best experience.
Dismiss alert

BS 2979:1958

Current
Current

The latest, up-to-date edition.

Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek characters
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

30-07-1958

Cooperating organizations
Foreword (general principles and present recommendations)
'British' system for Cyrillic
'International' system for Cyrillic
Greek
Notes on Cataloguing and Indexing
Examples of titles of periodicals - with transliterations
Section One: 'British' system for Cyrillic: Tables
Table A. Cyrillic-English transliteration
Table B. Back transliteration: English-Cyrillic
Section Two: 'International' system for Cyrillic: Tables
Table C. Modern Cyrillic transliteration (ISO/R9)
Table D. Church Slavonic (with numerical values)
Table E. Rumanian Cyrillic (alfabetul cirilic)
Table F. Back transliteration: Latin (Roman) - Cyrillic
Section Three: Greek transliteration: Tables (with note
on numerical values)
Table G. Greek-English and English-Greek (with note on
special signs)
Appendix. Note on Cyrillic Alphabets

Section 1: British traditional-type system (using zh, ch, sh, yu, ya); Table A Cyrillic-to-English transliteration, Table B the back-transliteration, English-to-Cyrillic, Section 2: \'international\' system for modern Cyrillic (Table C), Tables D and E for Church Slavonic and Rumanian Cyrillic. Table F back-transliteration (Latin-to-Cyrillic) for Table C, D and E. Section 3: rule-of-thumb system for Greek, without special regard to phonetic peculiarities of Ancient or Modern Greek, in line with international practice.

Committee
IDT/2
DevelopmentNote
Reviewed and confirmed by BSI, January 2010. (12/2009)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
24
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current

BS 6313:2003 Micrographics. 35 mm microfilming of serials. Specification
BS 4148:1985 Specification for abbreviation of title words and titles of publications
BS 5261-1:2000 Copy preparation and proof correction Design and layout of documents
BS 5605:1990 Recommendations for citing and referencing published material
BS 1629:1989 Recommendation for references to published materials
BS 6627:1985 Recommendations for presentation of headers for microfiche of monographs and serials
BS 4280:1968 Transliteration of Arabic characters
BS 1000:AUXIE-3(1993) : 1993 UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION - ENGLISH FULL EDITION - COMMON AUXILIARIES OF PLACE (5/9) ASIA, AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, PACIFIC AND CIRCUMPOLAR TERRITORIES
BS 8723-2:2005 Structured vocabularies for information retrieval. Guide Thesauri
BS 6371:1983 Recommendations for citation of unpublished documents

BS 1219:1958 Recommendations for preparation of mathematical copy and correction of mathematical proofs
BS 1749:1969 Alphabetical arrangement and the filing order of numerals and symbols.
BS 2979C:1959 \'British\' system for transliteration of modern Cyrillic (extracted from BS 2979:1958)
BS 1991(1967) : LATEST

View more information
$407.85
Including GST where applicable

Access your standards online with a subscription

Features

  • Simple online access to standards, technical information and regulations.

  • Critical updates of standards and customisable alerts and notifications.

  • Multi-user online standards collection: secure, flexible and cost effective.

Need help?
Call us on 131 242, then click here to start a Screen Sharing session
so we can help right away! Learn more