Romanization of Belarusian

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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
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.

Comparative table of some standard romanisations of the Belarusian letters
Cyrillic	Scholarly^[2]	ALA-LC	BGN/PCGN^[3]	ISO 9	National 2000^[4]
А а	a	a	a	a	a
Б б	b	b	b	b	b
В в	v	v	v	v	v
Г г	h	h	h	g	h
Ґ ґ^[5]	g	g	g	g̀	–
Д д	d	d	d	d	d
Дж дж	dž	dz͡h	dzh	dž	dž
Дз дз	dz	dz	dz	dz	dz
Е е	e	e	ye	e	ie, je
Ё ё	ë	i͡o	yo	ë	io, jo
Ж ж	ž	z͡h	zh	ž	ž
З з	z	z	z	z	z
І і	i	i	i	ì	i
Й й	j	ĭ	y	j	j
К к	k	k	k	k	k
Л л	l	l	l	l	l
М м	m	m	m	m	m
Н н	n	n	n	n	n
О о	o	o	o	o	o
П п	p	p	p	p	p
Р р	r	r	r	r	r
С с	s	s	s	s	s
Т т	t	t	t	t	t
У у	u	u	u	u	u
Ў ў	ŭ (w)	ŭ	w	ǔ	ú
Ф ф	f	f	f	f	f
Х х	x (ch)	kh	kh	h	ch
Ц ц	c	ts	ts	c	c
Ч ч	č	ch	ch	č	č
Ш ш	š	sh	sh	š	š
’	–	-	′′	’	–
Ы ы	y	y	y	y	y
Ь ь	′	′	′	′	’
Э э	è	ė	e	è	e
Ю ю	ju	i͡u	yu	û	iu, ju
Я я	ja	i͡a	ya	â	ia, ja
^ http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/9th-uncsgn-docs/e-conf-98-crp-21.pdf ^ Parentheses ( ) denote older variants. ^ 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.

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