704 International Code of Nomenclature 



Rule 27. Sect. 7. Orthography and Gender of Names 



Several European languages which employ the Latin alphabet 

 modify certain vowels by use of diacritical marks. 



The modern German umlaut may modify the vowels a, o or 

 u to a, 6 or il, which may alternately be written ae, oe and ue. The 

 latter alternative must be chosen when German words are Latinized; 

 Salmonella schottmuelleri, not S. schottmulleri: Schuetzia, not 

 Scliiltzia; Actinomyces joersteri, not A. forsteri; Pedioplana lineckelii, 

 not P. hdckelii; Loehnisium, not Lohnisium. 



The French accents of the letter e {e, e and e) are not transferred 

 when a French word is Latinized. 



Some Scandinavian languages have diacritic marks for the vowels 

 o and a. They are or o, ae or a and a which on Latinization become 

 oe, ae and aa respectively. 



An important group of languages employ the Cyrillic alphabet 

 (Russian, Serbian, Ukranian, Bulgarian, etc.) . The problem of 

 transliteration is complicated by the fact that in some cases sounds 

 are represented by the Cyrillic letters which have phonetically no 

 equivalent in the Roman alphabet. Romanization is effected by the 

 use of various diacritic marks as well as by letter combinations. 

 Latinization of words in languages printed in Cyrillic must be pre- 

 ceded by romanization, then transliteration into Roman letters with 

 the conventional diacritic marks. Latinization is completed by 

 elimination of the diacritic marks and the use of appropriate Latin 

 endings. Obviously the pronunciation of the letters of the Latinized 

 word will not correspond to those of the original Cyrillic. (For a 

 discussion of transliteration of Cyrillic for use in nomenclature see 

 Paclt, Jiri. Taxon 2:159-166. 1953) . 



Botanical and Zoological Codes. There are no essential differences 

 from the Bacteriological Code. Diacritic marks are suppressed in for- 

 mation of Latinized words. 



