Belarusian – Scholarly transliteration system
Belarusian virtual keyboard
The Belarusian virtual keyboard allows you to enter characters with a click of your mouse. There’s no need to change your keyboard layout anymore. The transliteration of each supported character is displayed on the right side of the character. You can then directly transliterate your text from one script to the other according to the selected transliteration system.
Language overview
Belarusian (Беларуская мова, transliterated as biełaruskaja mova) belongs to the East Slavic group of the Indo-European family. Official language in Belarus, alongside Russian, it counts about 5.1 million speakers. The Belarusian language is written in a variation of the Cyrillic script counting 32 letters.
Transliteration system: scholarly
The scholarly transliteration, also named scientific, academic, or linguistic transliteration, is an international system for transliteration of text from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. This romanization system is most often seen in linguistics publications on Slavic languages.
Specific rule
- The apostrophe (´) is not transliterated.
Other transliteration systems for Belarusian
The other currently supported transliteration systems for Belarusian are: ALA-LC, BGN/PCGN, ISO 9, and national.
Books
Belarusian for beginners: A book in 2 languages
by Dr. Johannes Schumann, editors 50LANGUAGES LLC (2017)
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Amazon.com]
Belarusian Language: The Belarusian Phrasebook
by Ilya Kovalyuk, editors CreateSpace (2016)
[ Amazon.com]
Parlons biélorussien : langue et culture
by Virginie Symaniec, editors L’Harmattan (1997)
[ Amazon.com]
Belarusian links
Other supported languages
The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Erzya, Georgian, Greek, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetian, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.