Cyrillic to Latin

Cyrillic text - Russian, for example - cannot simply be carried over "as written" into Latin letters; that needs a fixed transliteration standard. This tool transliterates Cyrillic text per GOST 7.79-2000, System B: the ASCII table without diacritics, the one most public transliteration tools use.

The transliteration works character by character, independent of position in the word - unlike passport schemes, there are no special rules for word beginnings. Letters like щ become a multi-letter sequence (shh), ц becomes cz, ж becomes zh; the soft and hard signs are rendered as an apostrophe and a double-quote respectively. An uppercase letter only capitalizes the first character of its mapping (Щ becomes "Shh", not "SHH") - a deliberately documented limitation.

Only the Cyrillic alphabet is supported (mainly Russian); every other character - Latin letters, digits, punctuation or another script such as Greek - passes through unchanged. The whole transliteration runs entirely locally in your browser in pure JavaScript - your text is not uploaded, not stored, and no foreign library is loaded from a CDN.

Specifications

In 3 steps

1. Paste Cyrillic text into the text field.
2. Let it transliterate automatically into the Latin alphabet.
3. Read the result or download it as a text file.

Limitations: Only the Cyrillic alphabet (standard Russian letters) is supported, per GOST 7.79-2000 System B; other scripts such as Greek are not transliterated and pass through unchanged. An all-caps word containing a multi-letter mapping (e.g. щ) only capitalizes the first letter (Щ -> "Shh"), not the whole mapping. There are no position-dependent rules like passport transliteration schemes use.

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