It will help to perform the correct transliteration from Russian into English of the necessary data: names, titles, URLs of website pages. Online transliteration (online transliteration) is a convenient and easy-to-use program that will facilitate your work and help you correctly present the necessary information in Latin.

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Below you can find out what transliteration is, as well as get acquainted with the main transliteration systems.

What is transliteration?

Transliteration is the most correct and relatively easy way to transfer text written in one alphabetic system through another, for example, Russian words in Latin letters. This method was developed by Schleicher and still remains in demand. This is logical, because thanks to this particular method it becomes possible to correctly and correctly issue a driver's license, passport, diplomas and other documents.

In other words, this is the transfer of Russian words in Latin (in English), that is, the representation of Russian words using the English alphabet. For example, "goodbye" will not sound "bye", but "dosvidaniya".

Where is it applied?

Initially, transliteration from English into Russian was studied and used mainly by translators, but today the scope of its use has expanded significantly. Transliteration has become very popular on the Internet.

When translating, professional translators use the transliteration method if:

• It is necessary to write the full name in the documents, addresses (streets), as well as other Russian letters in Latin. For example, Kovalenko - Kovalenko; Lebedinaya street - ylitsa Lebedinaya;
• We are talking about the realities of the area or country, which are not designated in the target language, or there is a need to emphasize the flavor of the language. So, we can cite as an example the well-known borscht, which translates as "borsch", grandmother - "babushka".

If we talk about Internet technologies, then transliteration into English serves to:

• Come up with a name for the site. Despite the English letters, many site names are easy to read in Russian.

Use in correspondence or Internet communication. Here often letters are replaced by numbers or other symbols. H is often written as 4. Hat - Shapo4ka. It is also a favorite method of communication for gamers, who often use transliteration into English.

The most popular transliteration systems

There are various transliteration systems. They may have some differences from each other. We propose to consider several of the most relevant methods of transliteration.

Transliteration according to GOST. This is an approved document that defines how to transliterate Cyrillic languages ​​using the Latin alphabet. GOST 7.79-2000 - adapted to the international standard ISO9, adopted in Russia.

Transliteration for documents according to ICAO requirements. ICAO stands for International Civil Aviation Organization. This organization has developed its own system of transliteration of surnames and names. This system is often included in online transliteration from Russian into English.

TYP transliteration(Traveller's Yellow Pages Transliteration). Despite the wide variety of transliteration systems, this system is quite popular and most used. It has its own distinctive transliteration rules from Russian to English, which can be seen in the table below.

Transliteration by order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs N 4271 used for issuing passports.

Transliteration by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs N 995 is used to issue driver's licenses and currently (2018) coincides with the transliteration for international passports.

Transliteration for Yandex. Often, as the name of the site page, use the name of the article itself in English letters. To achieve good results in search engines, you need to use the Yandex algorithm.

When transliterated, some letters of Russian (or any other Slavic language), such as u, c, s, h, d, f, u, in English cause the most difficulty. Let's look at how they are transliterated according to the systems analyzed above using the transliteration summary table.

The final table of transliteration from Russian into English

Below is a summary table for transliteration from Russian to English, which shows the systems discussed above.

Russian letters	TYP system	ICAO system	GOST 7.79-2000	Orders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs N 4271 / Ministry of Internal Affairs N 995
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Below is a table of correspondence between the letters of the Russian alphabet and the letters of the Latin alphabet.

Correspondence table of Russian letters to Latin letters
Russian	Latin	Russian	Latin
A	A	P	P
B	B	R	R
AT	V, W	With	S
G	G	T	T
D	D	At	U, OU
E	E	F	F, PH
Yo	YO	X	KH, H
F	ZH	C	TS
W	Z	H	CH, TCH
And	I	W	SH
Y	Y	SCH	SCH
To	K	S	Y
L	L	E	E
M	M	YU	YU, IU
H	N	I	YA, JA
O	O

The table of correspondence of Russian letters to Latin can be useful when choosing a domain name, if the domain name should be read in Russian. The table is useful when creating file names that are intended for publication on the Internet. The correct Latin spelling of file names will undoubtedly tell the user that he is going to download from one link or another.

It does not hurt to remember the abbreviation "CHPU" (human-understandable URL) or the foreign expression "Friendly URL" (URL - Uniform Resource Locator, a unique page address on the Internet). These concepts mean the same thing, about readable and understandable addresses on WEB pages on the Internet. A friendly URL gives the user more confidence when he or she is considering whether or not to follow the given link.

It should also be noted that search engines are well able to read, as well as translate the names of the site pages and use them when responding to a search query. If a the page name contains the word from the user's query, then it is highlighted in bold in the search engine results. Little is known to what extent page names affect the relevance of a particular site when a search engine responds to a user query. One thing is for sure, "CNC" is useful for visitors to your site, which means they should be used. The table of correspondence to Russian letters of Latin analogues will help you with this.

A couple of CNC examples:

http://avto.ru/prodazha/bu_avtomobili/bmw_x5_2007.html
Reading this URL, it becomes clear that on the page it represents, there is an advertisement for the sale of a 2007 BMW X5 car.

http://lib.ru/arhiv/statya-kak-kormit-sobaku.html
Looking at this URL, you can tell that the link is an article that talks about how to feed a dog.

The examples show that the words in the page titles are separated by dashes and underscores. Folder names tell the user which group the page located at a particular address can be assigned to. Domain names make it clear what can be located on the expanses of sites that are linked to them.

Before as create a website page with a readable address, you can try to type the name of the page in Latin in the search for Yandex or Google. If the search engine tries to tell you how to write a query in Russian correctly, it means that the title of your page does not contain errors. Remember to remove all underscores and dashes from the page name before making a search query.

The writing of the Russian language is based on the Cyrillic script. However, most of the world's languages ​​use the Latin alphabet for this. Later in the article we will tell you how to write in Latin letters correctly. This is a very important skill that can come in handy in any situation. As an example, you need to be able to write your name correctly in Latin when traveling abroad.

History of the Latin alphabet

Historically, the Latin alphabet is divided into archaic and classical. The first of these bears great resemblance to the Greek language, from which it probably originated.

The composition of the original alphabet included 27 letters, some of which were practically not used. The composition of the same classical alphabet included 23 letters. Latin was the official language in ancient Rome, and thanks to Roman expansion, this alphabet became widespread. In the process of historical development, several more letters were added to the Latin alphabet, and at the moment the "basic Latin alphabet" has 26 letters and completely coincides with modern English.

However, almost every language that uses the Latin alphabet today has its own additional Latin characters, such as the letter "thorn" (Þ), which is used in Icelandic. And there are many examples of such expansion of the Latin alphabet.

And how to write uppercase Latin letters that are included in the "basic Latin alphabet"? There are several rules. And according to them, some capital letters are small copies of capital letters, while some of the letters are slightly different.

Russian Latin

The very first cases of using the Latin alphabet for writing East Slavic languages ​​date back to the period of the 16th-17th centuries, when the Latin alphabet appeared in the documents of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Commonwealth.

Later, already on the territory of the Russian state, the question of changing the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet was repeatedly raised. At first, this idea came to Peter I, who, against the background of the economic transformations of the European bias, also conceived the language reform. However, Peter never fulfilled his desire.

Calls for a change in the alphabet intensified even more in the 19th century. Representatives of the “Westernizers” movement especially advocated for this. And again, there was no change in the alphabet. After all, the opponents of the Latin alphabet had many supporters. Including Minister Uvarov, the author of the theory of official nationality. The introduction of the Latin alphabet, according to opponents of the transition, would mean the loss of cultural uniqueness.

After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks planned to translate all nationalities into the Latin alphabet. Several options for the Russian language have been proposed. However, the period of "Latinization" quickly ended, and the leadership of the USSR began, on the contrary, to translate all languages ​​into Cyrillic. After that, the issue of changing the alphabet in the USSR was closed.

After the fall of the communist regime, the issue of the parallel circulation of the Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin one, as in Uzbekistan, was also repeatedly raised, but the public blocked such proposals. Despite all the ambiguity of this issue, the introduction of the Latin alphabet could be useful for the Russian language. This would make it open to further cultural expansion. But the introduction of the Latin alphabet in Russian has a small minus - it will be difficult for the older generation to understand how to write in Latin letters.

Transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin

There are no uniform rules for transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin. However, a certain standard is currently used in the Russian Federation, which is followed by employees of the Federal Migration Service.

It is periodically criticized, but accepted as official. In it, letters are replaced by phrases that are not in the Latin alphabet: E, Sh, Shch, Yu, Zh, C, Ch, Ya. The rest of the letters are actually identical to their Latin counterparts.

How to write a last name and first name

Usually this procedure must be completed when obtaining a foreign passport or visas. All documents that require transliteration are filled out according to the ISO 9 rule, which is followed by the Federal Migration Service. According to this rule, surnames are translated into Latin. We offer you a transliteration scale.

Thanks to this table, any word written in Cyrillic can be written in Latin. For example, Ivanovich in Latin will be Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich.

Conclusion

Disputes about which alphabet the Russian language needs do not subside for a long time. Each of the opinions has its own advantages and disadvantages. Discussions have been going on in our country for centuries, and there is no end in sight yet. However, being able to write in Latin letters is quite an important skill. It can be useful when obtaining a foreign passport, visa, paperwork in other states.

In this article, we showed how to write your first and last name in Latin letters correctly. But that's not all. Using the table given here, you can write any Cyrillic word in Latin. We hope that after reading this article you have understood how to write in Latin letters.