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I would like to know how to write my last name in Russian letters, my name is Brownstein. Can anyone help?
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BTW:Браунштейн
Браунштейн.
Браунштейн (Brownshteyn)
Браунcтейн (Brownsteyn)
Браунcтaйн (Brownstayn)
You are asking for a transliteration of the name Brownstein. This is actually a little more difficult that it seems. Firstly Russian and English letters do not match up phonetically. Indeed the Russian alfavit (alphabet) contains 33 characters while the English alphabet only contains 26.
Also there are certain sounds in the English language that are not part of the Russian language and vice versa.
in this case of particular interest is the "ow" in Brownstein. There really isnt a good way to make this sound in Russian, so transliterating it would be an approximation at best.
It also depends very much on how you pronounce your name. If you pronounce it "Brown-steen" or "Brown-stine" (keeping in mind that the Brown part isnt going to be exact at all.)
The best you can hope for would be more like "Braoon-stien"
Best of luck. And as a side bit of advice… Lots of my American friends ask me to transliterate their name for tattoos… and ALL my Russian friends ask me what the hell were they thinking. Remember you’d essentially be tattooing gibberish on to yourself.
JUST as a note the other transliterations I saw on this page are good (there is no right answer when transliterating) but note that they approximate the "ow" as more of an "a-oo" sound as opposed to the true "ow" sound. Also the character that they use for the "s" sound (ш) is actually more of an sh sound. The result is what would best be pronounced as (Bra-oon-shtine.)
Anyhow I hope this has helped. If you want a bit more insight wikipedia has a good article on the Russian alphabet that is relatively easy for English speakers to understand.