Revised Belarusian Table-Final
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Belarusian Vernacular Romanization Vernacular Upper case letter Romanization Lower case letters A A a a Б B б b B V в v Г H г h Ґ G ґ g Д D д d E E e Ё I︠O︡ ё i͡o Ж Z︠H︡ ж z︠h︡ З Z з z I I i i И (see Note 1) Ī e и (see Note 1) ī Ї (see Note 1) ї ї (see Note 1) ї Й Ĭ й ĭ K К к k Л L л l М M м m Н N н n O O o o П P п p Р R p r C S c s T T т t У U у u Ў Ŭ ў ŭ Ф F ф f X (see Note 2) K︠h︡ x (see Note 2) k︠h︡ Ц Ts ц ts Ч Ch ч ch Ш Sh ш sh Щ (see Note 3) Sh︠ch︡ щ (see Note 3) sh︠ch︡ Ы Y ы y Ь (see Note 4) ′ (soft sign) ь Э Ė э ė Ю I︠U︡ ю i︠u︡ Я I︠A︡ я i︠a︡ Ѣ (see Note 1) Ě ѣ (see Note 1) (see Note 4) ′ (soft sign) ě Notes: 1. Letter is considered obsolete for the modern Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet; found primarily in Old Belarusian, but may occasionally be found in late 19th and early 20th century texts 2. The ligature is necessary to distinguish letter X from the combination кг 3. Letter is considered obsolete for the modern Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet; found primarily in Old Belarusian, but may occasionally be found in late 19th and early 20th century texts. The ligature is necessary to distinguish щ from the combination “шч”. 4. The letter “soft sign” Romanized as “prime”. Do not confuse with apostrophe punctuation sign '. Special characters and character modifiers in Romanization: Special character Name USMARC hexadecimal code ‘ soft sign (prime) A7 Character modifiers Name USMARC hexadecimal code breve E6 dot above E7 ligature, 1st half ligature, 2nd half EB EC