4. exonyms and conversion - no. 1.

Are names converted from one alphabet to another also exonyms?

Not if this conversion has been effectuated according to an UN-recognised system.

 

ЧЕЛЯБИНСК -Čel’abinsk

(converted according to the UN-recognised system, GOST 83) is no exonym,

 

but the following ones are:

Chelyabinsk (Eng)

Tscheljabinsk (Ger)

Tcheliabinsk (Fr)

 

There is one more example:

Aigaion Pelagos is the Greek name of Aegean Sea (in Roman transcription).

Aigaion Pelagos is an endonym,

Aegean Sea is an exonym.