Anyone speak Serbian?

[jez9999]

Bit of a long shot, but I was hoping somebody would speak Serbian. I have a very small translation I need done in my extension - well, basically, I need the phonetic Serbian way of writing "Pale Moon". Please reply if you can help out.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Pale Moon is not to be translated as it is a proper brand name.

[ikar-us]

Yes, and he doesn't want to translate it, but to write it phonetically.

[Lucio Chiappetti]

Essentially you want a traslitteration in the cyrillic alphabet. I do not know Serbian but Russian, but I presume the phonetic values of the cyrillic letters are the same. I do a translitteration as I would do in Italian: Pale Moon sounds like "Pejl Mun", so I translitterate the latter

If I get my cut-and-paste from Unicode right, it should appear like this: Пейл Мун

The relevant unicode hex values in HTML are reported here

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Пейл  Мун

[ikar-us]

According to Wikipedia:Namenskonventionen/Kyrillisch there is no й in Serbian.
Пеињ Мун might be a little better.

[Lucio Chiappetti]

I was not sure about the short i й, it might be ok to replace it with a plain i и.
I was also unsure whether the terminating -l and -n should be softened. This is done in russian appending a weak sign. Apparently in serbian the weak sign is combined with the l or n into a ligature.
But what you wrote is "peinh mun" (Pane Moon ?) not "peilh mun" as you surely intended to write (exercise with unicode left to the OP)

[Srbin]

My name is Aleksandar Jovanovic / Моје име је Александар Јовановић
I am Serbian / Ја сам Србин

Pale Moon is Пејл мун (traslitteration!).

Best regards to all / Срдачан поздрав свима

[jez9999]

To give some context (which I should've given in the first place!), the guy who did my BabelZilla translation for Firefox and SeaMonkey translated them thus:

Фајерфокс
Симанки

So I'm just looking for the Pale Moon equivalent for that.

Going by Google Translate's pronunciation (lol), I think I will use what was suggested above:

Пејл мун

Srbin (or anyone reading the thread really): can you confirm that this looks good for "Get more Pale Moon language packs"?

Добавите још Пејл мун језичких пакета

[Srbin]

Преузмите још Пејл мун језичких пакета

But thank you, you've done more than I do.

[jez9999]

Преузмите још Пејл мун језичких пакета

But thank you, you've done more than I do.

OK, that's an alternative. But I ended up going with this for consistency (the translation already uses this kind of phrasing for "get more Firefox/SeaMonkey language packs"):

Добавите још Пејл мун језичких пакета

Still, the important thing is that the "Pale Moon" transliteration is the same in both cases. Cool.

[Srbin]

"Добавити" sounds like a "get more, but with some difficulties".

[jez9999]

"Добавити" sounds like a "get more, but with some difficulties".

LOL really? Google translates it as "obtain", but if your one is better I may update the l10n in future.

[Srbin]

Jez 9999,
overmuch relying on Google translator... it is sometimes dangerous, generally speaking.