Transliteration

Ossetian – Allworth transliteration system

Language: Abkhaz Adyghe Altai Armenian (eastern, classical) Armenian (western) Azerbaijani (Azeri) Bashkir Belarusian Bulgarian Carrier Cherokee Chuvash Erzya Georgian Greek Ingush Inuktitut Japanese Kazakh Kyrgyz Macedonian Moldovan Old Church Slavonic Ossetian Russian Serbian Tamazight Tigrinya Udmurt Ukrainian Vai Yakut

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ISO 9 ALA-LC Allworth BGN/PCGN

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Ossetian virtual keyboard

The Ossetian 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

Ossetian (ирон ӕвзаг), also known as Ossetic or Ossete, belongs to the Eastern Iranian languages group of the Indo-Iranian languages branch. Official language in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, in the North Caucasus, alongside Russian, and also in the Republic of South Ossetia–State of Alania, considered by the majority of UN countries as an autonomous region of Georgia, it counts about 600,000 speakers. The Ossetian language is written in a variation of the Cyrillic script since 1937.

Transliteration system: Allworth

Written by the American historian Edward A. Allworth (1920-2016), Nationalities of the Soviet East – Publications and Writing Systems: A Bibliographical Directory and Transliteration Tables for Iranian-And Turkic-Language Publications was published in 1971.

Specific rule

• The letter ӕ (Ӕ in uppercase), specific to Ossetian, is often replaced by the Latin characters æ and Æ (respectively represented by the Unicode codes U+00E6 and U+00C6), whereas these characters also exist in Cyrillic: ӕ and Ӕ (respectively represented by the Unicode codes U+04D5 and U+04D4). The latter that are used in this transliteration tool.

Other transliteration systems for Ossetian

The other currently supported transliteration systems for Ossetian are: ALA-LC, BGN/PCGN, and ISO 9.

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Other supported languages

The other supported languages are: Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altai, Armenian (eastern, classical), Armenian (western), Azerbaijani (Azeri), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Carrier, Cherokee, Chuvash, Erzya, Georgian, Greek, Ingush, Inuktitut, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Moldovan, Old Church Slavonic, Russian, Serbian, Tamazight, Tigrinya, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Vai, and Yakut.