Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek characters.
STANDARD published on 30.7.1958
Designation standards: BS 2979:1958
Publication date standards: 30.7.1958
The number of pages: 24
Approximate weight : 72 g (0.16 lbs)
Country: British technical standard
Category: Technical standards BS
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. Status: Under Review