UKRAINIAN MINERALOGICAL TERMINOLOGY AND NOMENCLATURE: PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT AND NORMALIZATION

UDC 549 : 81.33

M.O. Vakulenko
State Scientific Institution "Encyclopedic Publishing House"
51-а, Bogdan Khmelnytsky Str., Kyїv, Ukraine, 02000
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.
12C, Hermiankatu, Tampere, Finland, FI-33720
Е-mail: maxvakul@yahoo.com
Language: Ukrainian
Mineralogical journal 2018, 40 (2): 86-90

UKRAINIAN MINERALOGICAL TERMINOLOGY AND NOMENCLATURE: PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT AND NORMALIZATION

Abstract: An attempt to analyze the current state of Ukrainian mineralogical terminology and nomenclature is made. It is stated that when selecting and normalizing mineralogical names, the apt term criteria should be applied. It is emphasized that the borrowed units should be written in Ukrainian based on the transcriptional approach considering sounds, whereas the names of the Ukrainian origin should be rendered for international use through simple-correspondent transliteration by the Ukrainian Latinics considering letters. It is recommended to adopt a relevant field transliteration standard harmonized with ISO 9, based on the decision of the Transliteration Commission from November 16, 2000. It is argued that efficient development of the mineralogic term system is possible within a correspondent virtual terminographic laboratory being a modern high-technology linguistic tool.

Keywords: mineralogical terminology and nomenclature, physical terminology, terminological synonymy, apposite term, term translation, transcription approach, simple-correspondent transliteration.

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