Cyrillic Romanization

Convert Cyrillic characters to Latin characters (transliteration).

Default transliteration works according to ISO 9:1995.

However, ISO 9 is rarely used because it has unusual diacritical letters. Thus:

• Gaj's Latin alphabet transliteration is supported for Serbian, Macedonian, and Montenegrin alphabets;
• The -ia exception at the end of the word is supported for Bulgarian transliteration;
• The Kazakh transliteration follows the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated October 26, 2017, No. 569, 2021 revision;
• MNS 5217:2012 standard is supported for the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet;
• For Russian and Belarusian languages is used GOST 7.79-2000 (B);
• Additional ALA-LC romanization system for Russian;
• The Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet is transliterated into Latin by the Ukrainian national system based on BGN/PCGN 2019;
• For Uzbek romanization is used Latin-based alphabet of the proposed version from 2023.

Be aware that the presented romanization rules are unsuitable for transliteration of geographic names.

Installation

npm install cyrillic-romanization

Usage

import cyrillicToLatin from 'cyrillic-romanization';

// ISO 9 by default
cyrillicToLatin('Ћирилица је изведена из грчког унцијала');
// => Ćirilica ǰe izvedena iz grčkog unciǰala

// Convert Serbian Cyrillic alphabet to Gaj's Latin alphabet
cyrillicToLatin('Овај веб сајт користи колачиће', 'srp');
// => Ovaj veb sajt koristi kolačiće

// Convert Russian into GOST 7.79-2000 System B
cyrillicToLatin(
  'Широкая электрификация южных губерний даст мощный толчок подъёму сельского хозяйства',
  'rus',
);
// => Shirokaya elektrifikaciya yuzhnyx gubernij dast moshhnyj tolchok podʺyomu selʹskogo xozyajstva

Language parameter values

1. iso9 — ISO 9, default (optional);
2. alalc — ALA-LC romanization for Russian;
3. bel — Belarusian language;
4. bul — Bulgarian language;
5. cnr — Montenegrin language;
6. kaz — Kazakh language;
7. mkd — Macedonian language;
8. mon — Mongolian language;
9. rus — Russian language;
10. srp — Serbian language;
11. ukr — Ukrainian language;
12. uzb — Uzbek language.