Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards latin- >arabic

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Tue Jul 06 2004 - 06:18:11 CDT

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W liście z wto, 06-07-2004, godz. 10:50 +0100, Peter Kirk napisał:

> I guess another similar change would be Danzig -> Gdansk, but
> I don't know where the initial G came from so possibly the Polish form
> is older than the German.

A name with initial "Gd" is older than with "D":
   http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Gdansk
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk#Names
but Wikipedia has now a hot dispute about how it should call the city:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gdansk/Naming_convention

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