| Description | The BGN/PCGN system for Belarusian (formerly referred to as Byelorussian) was designed for use in
romanizing names written in the Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet. The Belarusian alphabet contains three
characters not present in the Russian alphabet: і, ў, and ’.
United States Board on Geographic Names Foreign Names Committee Staff, 1994.
Romanization Systems and Roman-Script Spelling Conventions, p. 23.
|
