Linguistic issues - road signs

[alserrod]

Be sure

[Bad_Hafen]

Originally Posted by Arbenit

In Albanian, Serbian and in Turkish:

skopje is in Macedonian not in Serbian

[Penn's Woods]

Wouldn't Macedonian be in Cyrillic?
And why Turkish in Albania? Even more so, why Turkish and not Greek?

[Christophorus]

That is not in Albania, and in the Pec area (where the picture is taken) formerly was a significant turkish minority, probably some turks still live there.

[Verso]

Originally Posted by Penn's Woods

Wouldn't Macedonian be in Cyrillic?

That's right, it's in Slovenian. It's Macedonian (Скопје), but transliterated in Latin alphabet. In Serbian it's Skoplje/Скопље.

Originally Posted by Penn's Woods

And why Turkish in Albania?

The sign is in Kosovo.

[Penn's Woods]

Originally Posted by Verso

That's right, it's in Slovenian. It's Macedonian (Скопје), but transliterated in Latin alphabet. In Serbian it's Skoplje/Скопље.

The sign is in Kosovo.

I misread something somewhere, apparently.

[x-type]

Originally Posted by Verso

That's right, it's in Slovenian.

i'm just watching at you

[Verso]

I don't know, that's how we call it.

[Junkie]

Originally Posted by Bad_Hafen

skopje is in Macedonian not in Serbian

English name is SKOPJE, serbian only in Serbia.

[Corvinus]

Originally Posted by BND

Bilingual sign in Slovakia (not official, unfortunately...):

... and what remained of it:


(Src: Bumm.sk)

[Capt.Vimes]

Originally Posted by Verso

That's right, it's in Slovenian. It's Macedonian (Скопје), but transliterated in Latin alphabet. In Serbian it's Skoplje/Скопље.

The sign is in Kosovo.

Why Turkish in Kosovo?

[Verso]

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=664

[DanielFigFoz]

Originally Posted by Corvinus

... and what remained of it:


(Src: Bumm.sk)

In Portugal it would have remained forever I bet, the authorities wouldn't notice

[piotr71]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tb...arbruecken.jpg

[Bad_Hafen]

Originally Posted by Junkie

English name is SKOPJE, serbian only in Serbia.

The point is that they wanted to write in Serbian but they made mistake.
btw Skopje is Macedonian and not english, english is the same as Macedonian not other way around.

[pobre diablo]

Originally Posted by Bad_Hafen

The point is that they wanted to write in Serbian but they made mistake.
btw Skopje is Macedonian and not english, english is the same as Macedonian not other way around.

Macedonian is written in Cyrillic only, so Skopje cannot be in Macedonian.

[Bad_Hafen]

Originally Posted by pobre diablo

Macedonian is written in Cyrillic only, so Skopje cannot be in Macedonian.

not true, Macedonian can also be written in Latin. The point is that the name is Macedonian version, original, and not Serbian as meant to be.

[DanielFigFoz]

Originally Posted by pobre diablo

Macedonian is written in Cyrillic only, so Skopje cannot be in Macedonian.

So 'Rossiyskaya Federatsiya' isn't Russian?

[Christophorus]

Here you can learn something about the correct transcription of cyrillic into latin characters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9

[Lum Lumi]

Originally Posted by Christophorus

That is not in Albania, and in the Pec area (where the picture is taken) formerly was a significant turkish minority, probably some turks still live there.

The sign is in Prizren, not in Peja. Kosovo has two official languages: Albanian and Serbian. In towns where significant other minorities exist, or where languages have been used in the past for cultural reasons, other languages can be official in that town. Therefore Prizren has Albanian, Serbian and Turkish as official languages that are used throughout the town in signs and other public documents.