Romanization or Latinization of Belarusian is any system for transliterating written Belarusian from Cyrillic to the Latin.
Some of the standard systems for romanizing Belarusian:
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 USA and Great Britain prevailing system for romanising of geographical informationBritish Standard 2979 : 1958Scientific transliteration, or the International Scholarly System for linguisticsALA-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 informationInstruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script, which is Belarusian state standard for geographical information, adopted by State Committee on land resources, geodetics 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.See also: Belarusian Latin alphabet.
