Belarusian to English translations [PRO] Law/Patents - Law (general) / Transliteration required
Belarusian term or phrase:(my tentative version) Svetlana Vedeslolovna Yankovskaya
I am translating a record of a death certificate from Russian into English, but the names in it are Belarusian and I am not sure how to transliterate them, or even if I am deciphering the handwriting correctly.
Svetlana Vedeslolovna Yankovskaya, date of birth 01.11.1981, and Skooner Lukovna Charlotte, date of birth 05.03.2002, were killed in a traffic accident on 05.05.2007 in Oer Sloboda, Postava District, Republic of Belarus.
Svetlana Vedeslolovna Yankovskaya, died at the site of the accident. The daughter of Svetlana Vedeslolovna Yankovskaya, Skooner Lukovna Charlotte, died on 07.05.2005 [as written, but presumably should be 07.05.2007] in № 7 Hospital in the city of Pastava, Republic of Belarus.
Date of issue of certificate: 14.08.2008.
Chairman of Registry Office (signed) T.S. Semyonov.
The abbreviation I am translating as Registry Office, assuming it to be the equivalent of ЗАГС in Russian, is "ОНIКС".
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Oer Sloboda is actually дер. Слобода - village of Sloboda
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PostavY District
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in Hospital № 7 in the city of Pastavy -
I would say 'town of' as it's rather small
Theres something strange about the stamp - it is not an abbreviation, it's the name of a production and commercial company ONIKS
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The correct patronymic is Vyacheslavovna, but it is a document...
Usually, I ask the client if I should correct spelling mistakes in a document. If that is not possible - I leave it as it is (Vyacheslalovna in this case) and add a note explaining what the correct version should be.
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Thank you very much, you have been most helpful. Could you just tell me if you now think the patronymic is Vecheslavovna or Vyacheslavovna (or Vyacheslalovna, as Natalie thinks)? 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
However, the name of the gentleman to whom the document is issued is Vecheslav (or -ov), and one may reasonably assume that he is the father of the deceased. Even if the patronymic is misspellt, the translation must follow the original.
Explanation: 1. The name is mentioned three times with identical spelling. The most questionable point is --slal--, which may look like --slol-- but, when zoomed, the difference between "a" and the next "o" is noticeable. Any ideas about this being an ordinary Russian name Vyacheslav are irrelevant for the translation of a document, which should be taken exactly as written.
--eche-- rather than --ede-- is clear in the second occurrence.
2. There is a discrepancy in the name of the locality/district Pastava/Postava because the form (and stamp) are in Byelorussian, and the handwriting is in Russian. Потвирждение is wrong in Russian but may be a correct word in Byelorussian (I do not know). It makes sense for a translator to make a note that two languages are involved, though they are very similar.
3. The little girl's name Skooner should be read with two o's like in German or Dutch rather than like the English diphtong 'oo' (phonetically u).
4. The certificate purports to be issued by a municipal magistrate but the stamp affixed is that of a commercial entity. This would invalidate the document in Moscow, for example, but may be acceptable in such an unsophisticated place as Belarus. It is advisable to make this discrepancy visible in the translation.
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Oer Sloboda is actually дер. Слобода - village of Sloboda
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PostavY District
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in Hospital № 7 in the city of Pastavy -
I would say 'town of' as it's rather small
Theres something strange about the stamp - it is not an abbreviation, it's the name of a production and commercial company ONIKS
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The correct patronymic is Vyacheslavovna, but it is a document...
Usually, I ask the client if I should correct spelling mistakes in a document. If that is not possible - I leave it as it is (Vyacheslalovna in this case) and add a note explaining what the correct version should be.
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Actually, Vyecheslalovna is what it says...
Valery Kaminski Belarus Local time: 14:42 Native speaker of: Russian PRO pts in category: 4
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Thank you very much, you have been most helpful. Could you just tell me if you now think the patronymic is Vecheslavovna or Vyacheslavovna (or Vyacheslalovna, as Natalie thinks)?
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you very much. Any further help with the names in the original document would be much appreciated. This link I gave didn't work but I have now added one which does.
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