Practical
How to read Ț, Ș, Ğ, Î
Dobrogea is written with marks missing from many keyboards. If we drop them, search goes astray and the name is spoiled. Below are eight places on the site, said briefly.
Ț and Ș
Țuțuiatu: ț as in “țară”, not “tutzuiatu”. Măcin: a short ă, not “Macin” as if it were another word. Hârșova: â as in “câr”. Șuberek, if you read it on a sign: ș, not “suberek”.
Î and Â
Towards Cernavodă, “în” stays în. On the map, Cernavodă is written with ă. Sfântu Gheorghe: â, not “Sfantu”. Independența: ă at the end.
Ğ, Ș, Ç from Turkish and Tatar
Babadag is read as in Romanian, with g. On a sign you may see Baba Dağ: ğ lengthens the vowel before it; it is not a hard g. Medgidia / Mecidiye: Turkish c is “dj”. Qırımtatar: q is a k further back in the throat; you do not need to practise it at the gate.
On the site
Search also accepts the form without diacritics, so a phone does not block you. The page title keeps the marks. The endonym, if there is one, sits under the title: endonym on the village page.