# Cyrillic to Latin phonetic mapping (2025-05-16)

**URL:** <https://pluralist.net/t/cyrillic-to-latin-phonetic-mapping-2025-05-16/273>\
**Category:** breadcrumbs\
**Created:** [May 16, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/cyrillic-to-latin-phonetic-mapping-2025-05-16/273 "2025-05-16T07:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![delyan](https://pluralist.net/user_avatar/pluralist.net/delyan/32/245_2.png) [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 7:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/cyrillic-to-latin-phonetic-mapping-2025-05-16/273/1 "2025-05-16T07:00:00Z")

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We have been huge fans of [https://bg.translit.cc/](https://bg.translit.cc/) for the past 25 years.  
In fact after 25 years of use the phonetic mapping, correct or not, has now become canon.

Here it is:

 ![image](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/4673f8acb69460aab7d9ea545e909be71b22ad05.png)

So here we preserve the bg.translit.cc mapping for future use (such as in this Racket Toy [racket-toys/Latin-to-Cyrillic.rkt at main · draychev/racket-toys · GitHub](https://github.com/draychev/racket-toys/blob/main/Latin-to-Cyrillic.rkt))

```json
{
  "а": ["a"],
  "б": ["b"],
  "в": ["v", "w"],
  "г": ["g"],
  "д": ["d"],
  "е": ["e"],
  "ж": ["zh"],
  "з": ["z"],
  "и": ["i"],
  "й": ["j"],
  "к": ["k"],
  "л": ["l"],
  "м": ["m"],
  "н": ["n"],
  "о": ["o"],
  "п": ["p"],
  "р": ["r"],
  "с": ["s"],
  "т": ["t"],
  "у": ["u"],
  "ф": ["f"],
  "х": ["h", "x"],
  "ц": ["c"],
  "ч": ["ch"],
  "ш": ["sh"],
  "щ": ["sht"],
  "ъ": ["\""],
  "ь": ["y"],
  "ю": ["ju", "yu", "ü"],
  "я": ["ja", "ya", "q"],
  "№": ["#"],
  "§": ["§"],
  "«": ["«"],
  "»": ["»"]
}

```