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The ь (soft-sign) only appears after consonants at the end of a syllable. It palatalizes the preceding consonant, and is not pronounced itself. For the article name it gets transliterated with an i, the transliteration with an apostrophe should be given as an alternative (use
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There are also "clan names" (e.g. Borjigin for
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Genden). In cases where readers are likely to find this confusing (e.g. with sportspeople), the template
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556:анлавын Наранцацаралт =
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266:Differences to BGN/PCGN
183:Names of Tibetan origin
115:Use conventional names
100:and more specifically
1109:нжмаа = Sükhbaataryn
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280:Х (х) becomes Kh (kh)
271:Е (е) becomes Ye (ye)
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961:игийн Сономпил = Mi
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286:Ы (ы) becomes Y (y)
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274:З (з) becomes Z (z)
233:Family name hatnote
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762:элжидийн Гэндэн =
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413:Нацагийн
360:Examples
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58:Shortcuts
45:consensus
29:guideline
1255:Category
1230:See also
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