Belarusian Alphabets and Transliteration

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The Cyrillic Alphabet

In Cyrillic, (also referred to as kirylicaj with its two variants: Taraskevitza and Narkomovka):

For Latsinka, refer to the four comparison charts, below.

Comparison Chart of Belarusian Alphabets and Transliteration   --   Go to this page to see a comparison between Cyrillic, Lacinka (Latzinka), their pronunciation, and the Library of Congress (LOC) system of notation.

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• See also Studying Belarusian for English Speakers in the "Books" section of this A Belarus Miscellany Web site.

• See also Radio Broadcasts and Real Audio in the Belarusian Language for broadcasts and Internet audio in Belarusian from RFE/RL. (They use traditional Taraskevitza rather than the Soviet, Russified, Narkomovka.)

• See also Holidays and traditional celebrations in Belarus,   A calendar of holidays: ancient pagan, religious, & Soviet. (Includes translation of the Belarusian month names into English.)

• See also An Online Belarus/English and English/Belarus Dictionary
  • At a site in Germany  

Belarusian Alphabets and Transliteration

Background

The following tables depict four representations of the Belarusian alphabet.

Note: The four "GIF" graphic files on this page, together with the Cyrillic alphabet graphic file depicted on the previous page, can be downloaded as one "ZIP" (compressed) archive file: ZIP'ed Belarusian alphaphets file. Size is 34 KB. (For some people, it is probably faster to download the file than to view with the Web browser.)

In the following charts:

• The left column represents the Cyrillic (kirylicaj) alphabet

• The column to its right represents the Latin (Latsinka) alphabet. This is also called Bielaruakaja abeceda. The term "alphabet" is not used when referring to Latsinka. Also note that Latsinka is not the same thing as transliterated Belarusian. Latsinka has accented characters (characters with diacritical marks, such as in Polish and Czech; that is, select a "Central European" when using a computer).

• The third column from the left represents pronunciation of the characters, for native English speakers

• The column on the far right indicates the US Library of Congress (LOC) transliteration

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