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Romanization or Latinization of Belarusian is any system for transliterating written Belarusian
Belarusian language

The Belarusian language, or Belorussian is the language of the Belarusians and is spoken in Belarus and abroad, chiefly in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland....
 from the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
 to the Latin
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
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Some of the standard systems for romanizing Belarusian:






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Romanization or Latinization of Belarusian is any system for transliterating written Belarusian
Belarusian language

The Belarusian language, or Belorussian is the language of the Belarusians and is spoken in Belarus and abroad, chiefly in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland....
 from the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
 to the Latin
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
.

Some of the standard systems for romanizing Belarusian:
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian
    BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian

    The BGN/PCGN romanization system for Belarusian is a method for romanization of Cyrillic Belarusian language texts, that is, their transliteration into the Latin alphabet....
    , 1979 (United States Board on Geographic Names
    United States Board on Geographic Names

    The United States Board on Geographic Names is a United States Federal government of the United States body whose purpose is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geography names throughout the government of the United States....
     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
    Scientific transliteration

    Scientific transliteration, variously called academic, linguistic, or scholarly transliteration, is an international system for transliteration of text from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet ....
    , or the International Scholarly System for linguistics
    Linguistics

    Linguistics is the science study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of Meaning ....
  • ALA-LC romanization
    ALA-LC Romanization

    ALA-LC is a set of standards for romanization, or the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin alphabet. The initials stand for American Library Association-Library of Congress....
    , 1997 (American Library Association and Library of Congress)
  • ISO 9
    ISO 9

    The international standard ISO 9 establishes a system for the transliteration into Latin alphabet of Cyrillic alphabet constituting the alphabets of many Slavic languages and some non-Slavic languages....
    :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
    Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script

    Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script is an officially adopted method of Romanisation of the Belarusian Cyrillic text in geographical names....
    , which is Belarusian state standard for geographical information, adopted by State Committee on land resources, geodetics 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.


See also: Belarusian Latin alphabet
Belarusian Latin alphabet

The Belarusian Latin alphabet ? the common name of the several historically existing systems of rendering the Belarusian text in Latin script....
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  • Belarusian Latin alphabet (Lacinka / ???????)
    Belarusian Latin alphabet

    The Belarusian Latin alphabet ? the common name of the several historically existing systems of rendering the Belarusian text in Latin script....
  • Romanization of Bulgarian
    Romanization of Bulgarian

    Romanization of Bulgarian is the transliteration of text in the Bulgarian language from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet. This table lists several transliteration schemes:...
  • Romanization of Russian
    Romanization of Russian

    Romanization of the Russian alphabet is the process of transliteration the Russian language from the Cyrillic alphabet into the Latin alphabet. Such transliteration is necessary for writing Russian names and other words in the alphabet of one's own language....
  • Romanization of Ukrainian
    Romanization of Ukrainian

    The romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is the representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin alphabet. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, a variation of Cyrillic alphabet....
  • Romanization of Macedonian