Talk:List of Georgian surnames

Iashvili/Yachvili

MacRusgail, as you correctly put it there is more than one way to transliterate each Georgian surname. So, what is the point in adding all these variants to the list? Iashvili is a primary transliteration, but the surname can also be spelled as Yachvili, Yashvili, Ias'vili, Iašvili, Iaszwili, etc. Abakelia, the first in the list, can be transliterated as Abak'elia, Abakeliya, Abakelya, etc. Next comes Abashidze, with its variants: Abašidze, Abas'ije, Abachidze, etc. If we include all possible variants, the list will become endless. I think we should keep only the most common transliteration on this page. Variants should be discussed in respective articles.--Kober^Talk 14:56, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

"Variants should be discussed in respective articles."

How are people supposed to look that up on this list without knowing it is a variant of Iashvili before hand? There are numerous variants of Scottish names, e.g. MacNeill, Neil, Ne(i)lson, McNeil etc, but they do get different listings on Wikipedia, despite having the same origin. There's a famous rugby player with this name.

For what it's worth, Arabic, Russian and Chinese names all have numerous transliterations into Roman as well. --MacRusgail (talk) 18:35, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps Yachvili should be marked in the list as a French transliteration of Iashvili, to reduce the possibility of confusion. — Richwales 18:41, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

This would be better.--MacRusgail (talk) 17:44, 8 June 2012 (UTC)