Church Slavonic Transliteration

This is a transliteration table of the transliteration that I use on this site. It is based on the ISO 9:1995 transliteration scheme for Russian and adapted to use only ASCII characters.

a

z

w

wt

je

b

i - See Note

p

c

ju

v

I - See Note

r

ch

ja - See Note

g

k

s

sh

ja - See Note

d

l

t

shch

ks - See Note

e

m

u

"

ps - See Note

zh

n

f

y

F

Z

o

x - See Note

'

V

Notes

Since <I> usually only appears before a vowel, for the sake of readability, I transliterate it as <i> whenever it is unambiguous to do so. For example, I write <carstvie> instead of <carstvIe>. In cases, such as loan words, where the spelling rule does not apply (e.g. <stIxira>), I use the strict transliteration given in the table. In any case, I always use transliterations that the Church Slavonic Untransliterator correctly translates into Church Slavonic characters. If there is a doubt about a transliterated word, check it in the Untransliterator.

The vowels (<e>, <o>, <u>, <ja>) have a special spelling at the beginning of a word.

The main change I've made to the ISO 9:1995 transliteration is to use <x> instead of <h> for the letter <xer">. This is because I am using a 7-bit ASCII representation for all characters, so I write <sh>, <ch>, <zh>, etc. Using <h> for <xer> would make it difficult to tell whether <sh> is the single letter <sha> or the letter <slovo> followed by the letter <xer>.