Romanization of Belarusian

Romanization or Latinization of Belarusian is any system for transliterating written Belarusian from the Cyrillic alphabet 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^{citation needed} for use by the Working Group on Romanization Systems of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)

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Comparative table of some standard romanisations of the Belarusian letters
Cyrillic	Scholarly^[1]	ALA-LC	BGN/PCGN	ISO 9	Official Belarusian and UN^[2]
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^[3]	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
^ Parentheses ( ) denote older variants. ^ 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	сямʼя
BGN/PCGN	Byelarus	Lukashenka	Mahilyow	syamya
Scholarly	Belarus′	Lukašènka	Mahilëŭ	sjamja
ALA-LC	Belarus′	Lukashėnka	Mahili͡oŭ	si͡ami͡a
ISO 9	Belarus′	Lukašènka	Magìlëǔ	sâm’â
Instruction on transliteration	Bielarus’	Lukašenka	Mahilioú	siamja