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Romanization of Belarusian

Transliteration of Belarusian from Cyrillic to Latin script

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

Standard systems for romanizing Belarusian

Standard systems for romanizing Belarusian include:

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 US 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 was an official standard for geographical names, adopted by the Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography of Belarus (2000), and recommended 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, then replaced with a new system in 2023.

Cyrillic	Scholarly	ALA-LC	British	BGN/PCGN	ISO 9	National 2000	National 2007	National 2023
А а	a	a	a	a	a	a	a	a
Б б	b	b	b	b	b	b	b	b
В в	v	v	v	v	v	v	v	v
Г г	h	h	h	h	g	h	h	g
Ґ ґ	g	g	g	g	g̀
Д д	d	d	d	d	d	d	d	d
Е е	e	e	e	ye	e
Ё ё	ë	i͡o	ë	yo	ë	jo, io	jo, io	jo, io
Ж ж	ž	z͡h	zh	zh	ž	ž	ž	zh
З з	z	z	z	z	z	z	z	z
І і	i	i	i	i	ì	i	i	i
Й й	j	ĭ	ĭ	y	j	j	j	j
К к	k	k	k	k	k	k	k	k
Л л	l	l	l	l	l	l	l	l
М м	m	m	m	m	m	m	m	m
Н н	n	n	n	n	n	n	n	n
О о	o	o	o	o	o	o	o	o
П п	p	p	p	p	p	p	p	p
Р р	r	r	r	r	r	r	r	r
С с	s	s	s	s	s	s	s	s
Т т	t	t	t	t	t	t	t	t
Тс тс			t-s	t·s
У у	u	u	u	u	u	u	u	u
Ў ў	ŭ (w)	ŭ	w	w	ǔ	ú	ŭ	w
Ф ф	f	f	f	f	f	f	f	f
Х х	x (ch)	kh	kh	kh	h	ch	ch	h
Ц ц	c	ts	ts	ts	c	c	c	c
Ч ч	č	ch	ch	ch	č	č	č	ch
Ш ш	š	sh	sh	sh	š	š	š	sh
	-	-	ˮ, "			-	-	-
Ы ы	y	y	ȳ	y	y	y	y	y
Ь ь			, '				combining acute	-
Э э	è	ė	é	e	è	e	e	e
Ю ю	ju	i͡u	yu	yu	û	ju, iu	ju, iu	ju, iu
Я я	ja	i͡a	ya	ya	â	ja, ia	ja, ia	ja, ia
Historical letters
И и		ī
Щ щ		shch
Ъ ъ			ˮ, "
Ѣ ѣ		ě	ê

Examples

Cyrillic	Łacinka	BGN/PCGN	Scholarly
Беларусь	Лукашэнка	Магілёў	сям’я
Biełaruś	Łukašenka	Mahiloŭ	siamja
Byelarus′	Lukashenka	Mahilyow	syamʹʹya
Belarus′	Lukašènka	Mahilëŭ	sjamja
Belarusʹ	Lukashėnka	Mahili͡oŭ	si͡ami͡a
Belarus’	Lukashénka	Mahilëw	syam”ya
Belarus′	Lukašènka	Magìlëǔ	sâm’â
Bielarus’	Lukašenka	Mahilioú	siamja
Bielaruś	Lukašenka	Mahilioŭ	siamja
Bielarus	Lukashenka	Magiliow	siamja

References

British Standard 2979 : 1958, London: British Standards Institution.
United Nations Statistics Division, Geographical Names
2023 Transliteration Instruction

References

"Archived copy".
(2023). "Instrukcija po peredache naimenovanij geograficheskih objektov s belorusskogo i russkogo jazykov na drugie jazyki i transliteracii naimenovanij geograficheskih objektov bukvami latinskogo alfavita". Gosudarstvennyj komitet po imushchestvu Respubliki Belarus.
(4 April 2023). "Писать "Ščučynščyna" уже нельзя: в Беларуси отменили белорусскую латиницу в географических названиях". Hrodna.life - новости Гродно.
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)". [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]].
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 with upturn. Ge]] (Ґ ґ) has never been part of the standard Belarusian alphabet.

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