ISO 9

ISO 9:1995

The standard features three mapping tables: the first covers contemporary Slavic languages, the second older Slavic orthographies (excluding letters from the first), and the third non-Slavic languages (including most letters from the first). Several Cyrillic characters included in ISO 9 are not available as pre-composed characters in Unicode, nor are some of the transliterations; combining diacritical marks have to be used in these cases. Unicode, on the other hand, includes some historic characters that are not dealt with in ISO 9.

Transliteration table

The following combined table shows characters for various Slavic, Iranian, Romance, Turkic, Uralic, Mongolic, Caucasian, Tungusic, Paleosiberian and other languages of the former USSR which are written in Cyrillic.

National adoptions

Sample text

The following text is a fragment of the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Bulgarian:

ISO/R 9

ISO Recommendation No. 9, published 1954 and revised 1968, is an older version of the standard, with different transliteration for different Slavic languages, reflecting their phonemic differences. It is closer to the original international system of Slavist scientific transliteration.

A German adaptation of this standard was published by the Deutsches Institut für Normung as DIN 1460 (1982) for Slavic languages and supplemented by DIN 1460-2 (2010) for non-Slavic languages.

The languages covered are Russian (RU), Belarusian (BE), Ukrainian (UK), Bulgarian (BG), Serbo-Croatian (SH) and Macedonian (MK). For comparison, ISO 9:1995 is shown in the table below.

Alternative schemes: ISO/R 9:1968 permits some deviations from the main standard. In the table below, they are listed in the columns alternative 1 and alternative 2.

1. The first sub-standard defines some language-dependent transliterations for Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK), Belarusian (BE) and Bulgarian (BG).
2. The second sub-standard permits, in countries where tradition favours it, a set of alternative transliterations, but only as a group. It is identical to the British Standard 2979:1958 for Cyrillic romanization.

Notes

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References

1. (December 2025). "ISO 9:1995".
2. "DIN - German Institute for Standardization".
3. "Standard - Information and documentation - Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters - Slavic and non-Slavic languages SS-ISO 9 - Swedish Institute for Standards, SIS".
4. "Magazin ASRO".
5. "HRN ISO 9:1997 / Croatian normative document". [[Croatian Standards Institute]].
6. "Sklep PKN".
7. "ČSN ISO 9 (010185)".
8. "Uni Iso 9:2005".
9. "Spletna trgovina SIST - SIST ISO 9:2005".
10. "EVS-ISO 9:2011".
11. "GSO ISO 9:2013 - متجر المواصفات - Ministry of Industry, Commerce & Tourism - Kingdom of Bahrain".
12. "OHCHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Bulgarian (Balgarski)".
13. {{Cite Q. Q104231343
14. In Russian and Belarusian, ъ is not transliterated at the end of a word (where it occurred in the pre-1918 orthography).
15. In Bulgarian, ъ and ѫ are not transliterated at the end of a word (where it occurred in the pre-1945 orthography).
16. "ISO 9:1995: Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages". International Organization for Standardization.
17. link. "- authentic Russian version of ISO 9"
18. The "informative" Annex A of ISO 9:1995 uses ISO 5426 0x52 ''hook to left'' which can be mapped to Unicode's ''comma below'' U+0326 (while the ISO 5426 also has 0x50 ''cedilla'' which can be mapped to Unicode's ''cedilla'' U+0327), it also uses ISO 5426 0x53 ''hook to right'' which can be mapped to Unicode's ''ogonek'' U+0328. See for example [http://evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/iso-5426.pdf Evertype.com's ISO 5426] {{Webarchive. link. (2020-10-21 mapping to Unicode or [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00220-map-5426.pdf Joan M. Aliprand's ''Finalized Mapping between Characters of ISO 5426 and ISO/IEC 10646-1''] {{Webarchive). link. (2020-08-02 .)
19. [http://evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/iso-5426.pdf Evertype.com: ISO 5426 mapping to Unicode] {{Webarchive. link. (2020-10-21 ; [https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00220-map-5426.pdf Joan M. Aliprand: ''Finalized Mapping between Characters of ISO 5426 and ISO/IEC 10646-1''] {{Webarchive). link. (2020-08-02 ; [https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U02B0.pdf The Unicode Standard: Spacing Modifier Letters] {{Webarchive). link. (2019-06-13 .)