Russian Latin alphabet (TheodoresTomfooleries)
The Russian Latin alphabet refers to the usage of the Latin alphabet to write the Russian language.
History
Russian is traditionally written in Cyrillic, a type of script. Efforts to replace the Cyrillic script with the Latin script have been widespread since the 19th century, but they never gained any officiality until the 20th century. The Soviet Union, as part of a mass-literacy program latinised most languages that were written in the Cyrillic or Perso-Arabic script. While Belorussian and Ukrainian had established Latin alphabets, Russian did not.
In 1929 a commission by the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR was formed to develop a Latin-based alphabet for the Russian language, headed by Professor NF Äkovlev and with the participation of linguists, bibliologists and printing engineers. The commission completed is work in January 1930, proposing three versions: all of them were identical except for how the letters ё, ы, ь, я and ю were to be romanized.
| Аа | Aa | Ии | Ii | Рр | Rr | Шш | Şş | |||||
| Бб | Bb | Йй | Jj | Сс | Ss | Ёё | Óó | Öö | Ɵɵ | |||
| Вв | Vv | Кк | Kk | Тт | Tt | Ыы | Yy | Yy | Ьь | |||
| Гг | Gg | Лл | Ll | Уу | Uu | Ьь | Íí | Jj | Jj | |||
| Дд | Dd | Мм | Mm | Фф | Ff | Юю | Úú | Üü | Yy | |||
| Ээ | Ee | Нн | Nn | Хх | Xx | Яя | Áá | Ää | Əə | |||
| Жж | Ƶƶ | Оо | Oo | Цц | Çç | Щщ | SCsc | |||||
| Зз | Zz | Пп | Pp | Чч | Cc | |||||||
On 25 January 1930, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) headed by Stalin ordered work on the Latinisation to be stopped. After work ended on the project, Latinisaion for the Russian language was not taken seriously until the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Reichsland Russland. Minor efforts on romanizing the Russian language for easier communication were taken but never state sponsored until the 1970s when the Imperial Territory of Russia was established. The work by the commission was combined and modified with the addition of letters and diacritics from the Łacinka script. Umlauts were decided to be used to write the vowel sounds of Ё, Ю and Я as opposed to the traditional combination of 2 letters (often yo, yu and ya). The resulting alphabet was made the official script of the Russian language in Russland. Most Russians are still able to write in Cyrillic, but the majority are digraphists who write in both Cyrillic or Latin. Younger generations of Russians increasingly write more in Latin, with some not even literate in the Cyrillic script at all. Cyrillic still remains the official script of writing Russian outside of Russland, and it is often for language sources outside of German to use a transliteration of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet such as Scholarly or BGN/PCGN (in English sources) to write Russian. Usage of the German-developed Russian Latin alphabet often carries political connotations outside of Germania, and is highly controversial.
| Аа | Aa | Ии | Ii | Рр | Rr | Шш | Šš | |||
| Бб | Bb | Йй | Jj | Сс | Ss | Ёё | Öö | |||
| Вв | Vv | Кк | Kk | Тт | Tt | Ыы | Yy | |||
| Гг | Gg | Лл | Ll | Уу | Uu | Ьь | Ïï | |||
| Дд | Dd | Мм | Mm | Фф | Ff | Юю | Üü | |||
| Ээ | Ee | Нн | Nn | Хх | CH ch | Яя | Ää | |||
| Жж | Žž | Оо | Oo | Цц | Cc | Щщ | Ŝŝ | |||
| Зз | Zz | Пп | Pp | Чч | Čč |
As an example, Арха́нгельск (in BGN/PCGN Arkhangelsk) would be written as Archangelïsk.