Back Umschrift des ukrainischen kyrillischen Alphabets German Ukraineraren transliterazioa Basque Ukrainan translitterointi Finnish Romanisation de l'ukrainien French Latinisasi bahasa Ukraina ID Romanisatie van het Oekraïens Dutch Транслитерация украинского алфавита латиницей Russian Romanization of Ukrainian SIMPLE Prepis z ukrajinskej cyriliky do latinky Slovak Ukraynacanın romanizasyonu Turkish
The romanization of Ukrainian, or Latinization of Ukrainian, is the representation of the Ukrainian language in Latin letters. Ukrainian is natively written in its own Ukrainian alphabet, which is based on the Cyrillic script. Romanization may be employed to represent Ukrainian text or pronunciation for non-Ukrainian readers, on computer systems that cannot reproduce Cyrillic characters, or for typists who are not familiar with the Ukrainian keyboard layout. Methods of romanization include transliteration (representing written text) and transcription (representing the spoken word).
In contrast to romanization, there have been several historical proposals for a native Ukrainian Latin alphabet, usually based on those used by West Slavic languages, but none have been widely accepted.