The Brazilian translator Jorio Dauster informed me that the romanization of Chinese characters is called "pynin" ( but we have no idea on how this sounds). Would there be a special name for the transposition of characters in cyrillic?

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>

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If anyone's still interested, "Pninah" is Hebrew for "pearl".
I'm no expert, but I'd expect to hear it pronouncd it with a
bit of a schwa (in the original sense) after the p, so it's no
help with "Pnin".  (Neither is "Up, Nina", as in my speech that
has an unexploded p, which I have a lot of trouble with at the
beginning of a phrase.)

Jerry Friedman
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Subject:	Re: [NABOKV-L] (pronouncing "Pnin")
Date:	Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:04:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman@yahoo.com>
To:	Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>

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