On-line Glossary of Ukrainian Mineral Names

UDC 549.0
https://doi.org/10.15407/mineraljournal.39.01.003

PONOMARENKO O.M., KULCHYTSKA H.O., CHERNYCH D.S.
M.P. Semenenko Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Formation of the NAS of Ukraine
34, Acad. Palladin Av., Kyiv-142, Ukraine, 03680
Е-mail: kulchechanna@gmail.com
Language: Ukrainian
Mineralogical journal 2017, 39 (1): 3-10
Abstract: The aim of the paper is to draw attention to new web resource Mineralogical Encyclopedia of Ukraine with http://mineralopediaukraine.com domain. It is shown that today online publications have significant advantages over prints. They allow supplementing and updating the information on minerals, correct in a moment any erroneous data, acquainted with the readers’ opinion and even engage them as authors. Main attention is drawn to the Glossary of Ukrainian Mineral Names posted on the website for public discussion and questioning. As the names of the mineral species approved by the International Mineralogical Association are written using letters of extended Latin, there are some difficulties in writing them using Cyrillic alphabet. In Ukraine, the difficulties caused by the changes in the Ukrainian spelling and legislation in 1990 are added to them. Glossary compilers have left Ukrainian names of minerals, which were known before 1990, unchanged and recorded the names of mineral species discovered after this date with changes in spelling. For taking into account the reader’s opinion two question packages was prepared. One of them relates to a way of recording Latinized names of minerals in Cyrillic: by transcription, continuing the tradition, or by transliteration? According to the compilers’ opinion direct transliteration of the Latin alphabet is preferable. Another package of questions concerns the spelling of mineral species names in Ukrainian depending on the time of their discovery. The final decision based on the results of questionnaires will be taken by the Commission on Terminology.
Keywords: mineral, encyclopedia, dictionary of names, transliteration, spelling, website.
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