[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] POLISH DIACRITIC " L" EQUIVALENT IN RUSSIAN

[Michael & Maureen McHenry]

I think I need to clarify my question. A German pastor, in 19th century
Russian Poland, is recording a birth, marriage or death. How would he write
the name of a polish village containing a diacritic "L" in Cyrillic? Are you
suggesting it would be indistinguishable from the translation of a polish
"W"? What if the word contains "WL"? This is not hypothetical. I have a
village starting with the Cyrillic "Bb". 

                                        Mike

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Mike:
I would guess that the Polish slashed" L" sound,could be equivalent, in
written Cyrillic, to a "B". i.e. written Polish slashed L= English sound of
W(through pursed lips)= written Cyrillic B; however I am not sure if  the
Ukrainians would have transcribed it this way, i.e.  the "Polish slashed L"
is converted into German and English , as just an "L", which gives it a
totally different sound.

>From a quick check of a Russian map of Poland I see where they converted
the
city of "(slash)Lodz" (in Polish "Woodz"), as "Lodz" so from this sample of
one, it appears that the Russian cartographers did the same thing as the
Germans and English; ignoring the "slashed L" sound and just writing it as
an "L".
Howard Krushel

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> When a town name contains a Polish diacritic "L" how would it be
translated
> into Russian Cyrillic?
>
>                                         Mike



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