Romanization of Ukrainian

Romanization or Latinization of Ukrainian is how to write the Ukrainian language in Latin letters. Latin letters are the type that are currently used for this article.

This makes the language easier for non-Ukrainian people to read and pronounce.

There are two different kinds of Romanization. These methods are transliteration, representing written text, and transcription, representing the spoken words.

There it is also a latin version of thre ukrainian language: the Latynka.

 Transliteration 
Transliteration is the letter-for-letter representation of text using a Latin writing system.

The International scholarly system, also called scientific transliteration, is most often seen in linguistic publications about Slavic languages. Each character represents one phoneme, one meaningful unit of sound. This is based on the Croatian Latin alphabet.

Transcription
Transcription is the representation of the spoken word. Phonetic transcription represents every single sound, or phone, and can be used to compare different dialects of a language. It is more specifed as the Transliteration.

Table of latinization Ukrainian letters
 Common systems for latinization Ukrainian Cyrillic Scholarly Nationala French GermanAlternative А а  a  a  a  aa Б б  b  b  b  bb В в  v  v  v  wv (Before vowels), w (Before Consonants) Г г  h  h, ghb  h  hq Ґ ґ  g  g  g  gg Д д  d  d  d  dd Е е  e  e  e  ee Є є  je  ie, yec  ie  jeje Ж ж  ž  zh  j  shzh З з  z  z  z  sz И и  y  y  y  yy І і  i  i  i  ii Ї ї  ji  i, yic  ï, yi  jiji Й й  j  i, yc  i  jj К к  k  k  k  kk Л л  l  l  l  ll М м  m  m  m  mm Н н  n  n  n  nn О о  o  o  o  oo П п  p  p  p  pp Р р  r  r  r  rr С с  s  s  s  s, sss Т т  t  t  t  tt У у  u  u  ou  uu Ф ф  f  f  f  ff Х х  x or ch  kh  kh  chx Ц ц  c  ts  ts  zc Ч ч  č  ch  tch  tschch Ш ш  š  sh  ch  schsh Щ щ  šč  sch  chtch  schtschsch Ю ю  ju  iu, yuc  iou  juju Я я  ja  ia, yac  ia  jaja Ь ь  ′  ’  –  –j ’  -  ”  –  –h

 a Notes for the Ukrainian National system
 Transliteration can be rendered in a simplified form:
 Doubled consonants ж, х, ц, ч, ш are simplified, for example Запоріжжя→Zaporizhia.
 Apostrophe and soft sign are omitted, except for ьо and ьї which are always rendered as ’o and ’i.
b. gh is used in the romanization of зг (zgh), avoiding confusion with ж (zh).
c. The second variant is used at the beginning of a word.

See also
Latynka

Category:Romanization