Romanization of Belarusian

Romanization or Latinization of Belarusian is any system for transliterating written Belarusian from Cyrillic to the Latin.

Some of the standard systems for romanizing Belarusian:

• BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, 1979 (United States Board on Geographic Names and Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use), which is the USA and Great Britain prevailing system for romanising of geographical information
• British Standard 2979 : 1958
• Scientific transliteration, or the International Scholarly System for linguistics
• ALA-LC romanization, 1997 (American Library Association and Library of Congress)
• ISO 9:1995, which is also Belarusian state standard GOST 7.79–2000 for non-geographical information
• Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script, which is Belarusian state standard for geographical information, adopted by State Committee on land resources, geodetics and cartography of Belarus, 2000 and recommended^[1] for use by the Working Group on Romanization Systems of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN). It was significantly revised in 2007.

See also: Belarusian Latin alphabet.

Comparative table of some standard romanisations of the Belarusian letters

Cyrillic	Scholarly[2]	ALA-LC	British[3]	BGN/PCGN[4]	ISO 9	National 2000[5]	National 2007[5]
А а	a	a	a	a	a	a	a
Б б	b	b	b	b	b	b	b
В в	v	v	v	v	v	v	v
Г г	h	h	h	h	g	h	h
Ґ ґ[6]	g	g	g	g	g̀
Д д	d	d	d	d	d	d	d
Дж дж	dž	dz͡h	dzh	dzh	dž	dž	dž
Дз дз	dz	dz	dz	dz	dz	dz	dz
Е е	e	e	e	ye	e	je, ie	je, ie
Ё ё	ë	i͡o	ë	yo	ë	jo, io	jo, io
Ж ж	ž	z͡h	zh	zh	ž	ž	ž
З з	z	z	z	z	z	z	z
І і	i	i	i	i	ì	i	i
Й й	j	ĭ	ĭ	y	j	j	j
К к	k	k	k	k	k	k	k
Л л	l	l	l	l	l	l	l
М м	m	m	m	m	m	m	m
Н н	n	n	n	n	n	n	n
О о	o	o	o	o	o	o	o
П п	p	p	p	p	p	p	p
Р р	r	r	r	r	r	r	r
С с	s	s	s	s	s	s	s
Т т	t	t	t	t	t	t	t
Тс тс			t-s	t·s
У у	u	u	u	u	u	u	u
Ў ў	ŭ (w)	ŭ	w	w	ǔ	ú	ǔ
Ф ф	f	f	f	f	f	f	f
Х х	x (ch)	kh	kh	kh	h	ch	ch
Ц ц	c	ts	ts	ts	c	c	c
Ч ч	č	ch	ch	ch	č	č	č
Ш ш	š	sh	sh	sh	š	š	š
’	–	-	”, "	′′	’	-	-
Ы ы	y	y	ȳ	y	y	y	y
Ь ь	′	′	’, '	′	′	′	combining acute
Э э	è	ė	é	e	è	e	e
Ю ю	ju	i͡u	yu	yu	û	ju, iu	ju, iu
Я я	ja	i͡a	ya	ya	â	ja, ia	ja, ia
Historical letters
И и		ī
Щ щ		shch
Ъ ъ		”	”, "
Ѣ ѣ		ě	ê
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/9th-uncsgn-docs/e-conf-98-crp-21.pdf Parentheses ( ) denote older variants. Diacritics may be omitted when back-transliteration is not required Romanization Systems Currently Approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN) For е, ё, ю, я, the digraphs je, jo, ju, ja are used word-initially, and after a vowel, apostrophe (’), separating ь, or ў. The letter Ge (Ґ ґ) has never been the part of the standard Belarusian alphabet.

Examples

Cyrillic	Беларусь	Лукашэнка	Магілёў	сям’я
Łacinka	Biełaruś	Łukašenka	Mahiloŭ	siamja
BGN/PCGN	Byelarus′	Lukashenka	Mahilyow	syamʹʹya
Scholarly	Belarus′	Lukašènka	Mahilëŭ	sjamja
ALA-LC	Belarus′	Lukashėnka	Mahili͡oŭ	si͡ami͡a
British	Belarus’	Lukashénka	Mahilëw	syam”ya
ISO 9	Belarus′	Lukašènka	Magìlëǔ	sâm’â
National 2000	Bielarus’	Lukašenka	Mahilioú	siamja
National 2007	Bielaruś	Lukašenka	Mahilioŭ	siamja

See also

• Belarusian Latin alphabet (Łacinka / лацінка)
• Romanization of Bulgarian
• Romanization of Russian
• Romanization of Ukrainian
• Romanization of Macedonian

References

• British Standard 2979 : 1958, London: British Standards Institution.
• United Nations Statistics Division, Geographical Names
• transliteration layout for belarusian alphabet (OS Windows)