Russian Language: Russian written in in Latin alphabet rather than Cyrillic?
Saturday, August 21st, 2010 at
8:32 am
I am currently trying to learn Russian, and I wonder how the procedure of writing Russian with the Latin alphabet (ABCDEFG...) rather than the Cyrillic one (АБВГДЕЁЖ...) works out.
How are the letters converted?
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Now, there are a few standardized ways of transliterating the Russian variant of the Cyrillic alphabet. They’re all quite similar and basically boil down to this:
А – A
Б – B
В – V
Г – G
Д – D
Е – E [remember that this becomes "ye" or "je" at the beginning of words]
Ж – ZH
З – Z
И – I
Й – Y or J
К – K
Л – L
М – M
Н – N
О – O
П – P
Р – R
С – S
Т – T
У – U
Ф – F
Х – I tend to use KH or X depending on the context
Ц – TS
Ч – CH
Ш – SH
Щ – SH (remember that this stands for [ɕ] in Russian, a sound similar to the English "sh". It is sometimes misprinted as "shch" which is the sound the letter makes in Ukrainian)
Ъ – ‘
Ы – I
Ь – ‘
Э – E
Ю – YU or JU
Я – YA or JA
Ё – YO or JO
Remember that in most Slavic languages, the letter "j" is used to represent one of the sounds made by the English letter "y". You’ll sometimes see this in transliterations instead of "y". Cyrillic, for the most part, is very easy to read and most letters are faithfully represented by a Latin letter or a Latin diagraph.