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Romanization of Belarusian

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Standard systems for romanizing Belarusian

Standard systems for romanizing Belarusian include:

  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, 1979 (United States Board on Geographic Names and Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use), which is the US and Great Britain prevailing system for romanising of geographical information
  • British Standard 2979 : 1958
  • Scientific transliteration, or the International Scholarly System for linguistics
  • ALA-LC romanization, 1997 (American Library Association and Library of Congress)
  • ISO 9:1995, which is also Belarusian state standard GOST 7.79–2000 for non-geographical information
  • Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script, which was an official standard for geographical names, adopted by the Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography of Belarus (2000), and recommended for use by the Working Group on Romanization Systems of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN). It was significantly revised in 2007, then replaced with a new system in 2023.

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