Romanization of Russian

The romanization of Russian is writing Russian using Latin-script letters instead of its usual Cyrillic-script letters.

## Transliteration table

Below is a table featuring four ways to romanize Russian.

- On the far left is the original Russian letters.
- The first romanization is the International Phonetic Alphabet, a way to write _pronunciation_ of the letters as said by people; it does _not_ account for irregular spellings, pronunciation _only_.
- The second romanization is the scientific romanization, and it is used in scientific contexts.
- The third romanization is Wikipedia’s romanization; this is the one most commonly used in the English Wikipedia and the Simple English Wikipedia.
- The fourth and final romanization is the official romanization system used for Russian passports; officially, it is called the ICAO system.

|Original Cyrillic|I.P.A.|Scientific romanization|Wikipedia’s romanization|Passport / ICAO|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|А а|[a]|a|a|a|
|Б б|[b] or [bʲ]|b|b|b|
|В в|[v] or [vʲ]|v|v|v|
|Г г|[ɡ] or [gʲ]|g|g|g|
|Д д|[d] or [dʲ]|d|d|d|
|Е е|[j[e]<nowiki/>](951629) or [ʲ[e]<nowiki/>](951629) or [e]|e|e / ye|e|
|Ё ё|[j[o]<nowiki/>](951630) or [ʲ[o]<nowiki/>](951630)|ë|yo|e|
|Ж ж|[ʐ]|ž|zh|zh|
|З з|[z] or [zʲ]|z|z|z|
|И и|[i] or [ʲ[i]<nowiki/>](908214) or [ɨ]|i|i|i|
|Й й|[j]|j|y|i|
|К к|[k] or [kʲ]|k|k|k|
|Л л|[ɫ] or [lʲ]|l|l|l|
|М м|[m] or [mʲ]|m|m|m|
|Н н|[n] or [nʲ]|n|n|n|
|О о|[o]|o|o|o|
|П п|[p] or [pʲ]|p|p|p|
|Р р|[r] or [rʲ]|r|r|r|
|С с|[s] or [sʲ]|s|s|s|
|Т т|[t] or [tʲ]|t|t|t|
|У у|[u]|u|u|u|
|Ф ф|[f] or [fʲ]|f|f|f|
|Х х|[x] or [xʲ]|x / ch / h|kh|kh|
|Ц ц|[t͡s]|c|ts|ts|
|Ч ч|[t͡ɕ]|č|ch|ch|
|Ш ш|[ʂ]|š|sh|sh|
|Щ щ|[ɕː] or [ɕ]|šč / ŝ|shch / sch|shch|
|Ъ ъ|_none_|”|(_omitted_)|ie|
|Ы ы|[ɨ]|y|y|y|
|Ь ь|[◌ʲ]|’|y|⠀|
|Э э|[ɛ] or [e]|è|e|e|
|Ю ю|[j[u]<nowiki/>](951627) or [ʲ[u]<nowiki/>](951627)|ju / û|yu|iu|
|Я я|[j[a]<nowiki/>](951662) or [ʲ[a]<nowiki/>](951662)|ja / â|ya|ia|

### Archaic letters

These are some of [[Russian language|Russian]]’s archaic letters, and their romanization.

|Letter||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|І і|Ѣ ѣ|Ѳ ѳ|Ѵ ѵ|
|[i] or [ʲ[i]<nowiki/>](908214)|[j[e]<nowiki/>](951629) or [ʲ[e]<nowiki/>](951629)|[f] or [fʲ]|[i] (or [v])|
|i|ě|f|i|

### Yus letters

The yus letters, or jus letters, are former [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] letters. Below is their romanizations.

|Letter||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Ѫ ѫ|Ѭ ѭ|Ѧ ѧ|Ѩ ѩ|
|ǫ / õ|jǫ / jõ|ę / ẽ|ję / jẽ|

#### English

[[Novaya Zemlya]] is an [[archipelago]] in the [[Arctic Ocean]] between the [[Barents Sea|Barents]] and [[Kara Sea|Kara]] seas, and is part of the [[Arkhangelsk Oblast]] of [[Russia]] as the Novaya Zemlya administrative district and, within the framework of local self-government, has the status of the Novaya Zemlya urban district.

#### Russian (Cyrillic)

Новая Земля — архипелаг в Северном Ледовитом океане между Баренцевым и Карским морями, входит в Архангельскую область России в качестве административного района Новая Земля и, в рамках местного самоуправления, в статусе городского округа Новая Земля.

#### Scientific romanization

Novaâ Zemlâ — arhipelag v Severnom Ledovitom okeane meždu Barencevym i Karskim morâmi, vhodit v Arhangel’skuû oblast’ Rossii v kačestve administrativnogo pajona Novaâ Zemlâ i, v ramkah mestnogo camoupravleniâ, v statuse gorodskogo okruga Novaâ Zemlâ.

#### Wikipedia’s romanization

Novaya Zemlya — arkhipelag v Severnom Ledovitom okeane mezhdu Barentsevym i Karskim moryami, vkhodit v Arhangelskuyu oblast Rossii v kachestve administrativnogo pajona Novaya Zemlya i, v ramkakh mestnogo camoupravleniya, v statuse gorodskogo okruga Novaya Zemlya.

#### Passport / ICAO

Novaya Zemlya — arkhipelag v Severnom Ledovitom okeane mezhdu Barentsevym i Karskim moryami, vkhodit v Arhangelskuyu oblast Rossii v kachestve administrativnogo pajona Novaya Zemlya i, v ramkakh mestnogo camoupravleniya, v statuse gorodskogo okruga Novaya Zemlya.

## Related pages

- [[Transliteration]]
- [[Cyrillic script]]
- [[Russian alphabet]]
- [[Russian language]]