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These are the rules concerning transliteration inRussian entries. This Wiktionary-specific transliteration system is based on the conventional system oftransliteration for linguistics, with modifications, and exceptions to reflect Russian pronunciation instead of Cyrillic spelling.

Table notes:

1. The letter “г” is transliterated ash when it is pronounced /ɣ/, asx when it is pronounced /x/, and asv ingenitive/accusative masculine/neuter endings (e.g., “-ого” =-ovo, and “-его” =-(j)evo, pronounced /ovo/ like “-ово” and /(j)evo/ like “-ево”, respectively). E.g., “бог” isbox, “лёгкий” isljóxkij, “ого́” (interjection) isohó orogó, “кого́” iskovó and “сего́дня” issevódnja.
2. The letter “е” is transliterated as follows:
   1. e after consonants, e.g.без(bez), or after a hyphen at the beginning of a suffix, e.g.-ец(-ec);
   2. je elsewhere (at the beginning of a word, after a vowel or following “ъ” or “ь”);
   3. ɛ in loanwords where the preceding consonant is notpalatalised, e.g. “тест(tɛst)”.
3. The letter “э” is transliterated as follows:
   1. ɛ in the places where letter “е” is transliterated ase (after consonants and after a hyphen at the beginning of a suffix);
   2. e elsewhere (i.e. wherever the letter “е” would be transliterated asje).
4. In running texts (excluding dictionary or textbook material, books designed for young readers), the letter “ё” is seldom used by native speakers and it's written as letter “е”, without the dots. It's still pronounced and transliterated the same way as “ё”, e.g. “легкий(ljóxkij)” (such terms are treated as alternative spellings in Wiktionary, which uses a dictionary style, the main terms being those spelled with “ё”).
5. The letter “ё” is transliterated asó following the consonants “ж”, “ч”, “ш”, or “щ”. “ё” is transliterated asjó/ó by default as it is usually stressed, monosyllabic words, loanwords where indicating stress is not required or and rare multipart words, loanwords “ё” is NOT stressed must be transliterated asjo/o, e.g. monosyllabic words:лёд(ljod), Russian words prefixed withтрёх-(trjox-),четырёх-(četyrjóx-), rare loanwords with unstressed “ё”:Пёнтко́вский(Pjontkóvskij) (alsoПентко́вский(Pentkóvskij)).
6. The letter “ч” is transliterated asš in the few words where it is pronounced /ʂ/ like “ш”: “что” isšto, “коне́чно” iskonéšno.
7. The letter “ъ” at the end of a word—which was used in pre-1918 orthography—is not transliterated as it did not represent any sound:миръ(mir),міръ(mir).
8. The letter “ю” is transliterated asu in the combinations “жю” and “шю”. For example, “жюри́” =žurí, “брошю́ра” =brošúra where “ю” doesn't produce the usual pronunciation.
9. The letter “ѣ̈” is transliterated asjǒ́/ǒ́ by default, but otherwise has the same exceptions as “ё”, where it is transliterated as 'ǒ́ orjǒ́/ǒ́.

There are no more exceptions if the pronunciation is expected and can be learned from the basics of Russian phonology, specifically:

• The reduction of vowels and voicing/devoicing of consonants are not reflected in the transliteration.
• Verb endings “-тся” and “-ться” are transliterated as written as-tsja and-tʹsja:оде́ться(odétʹsja),оде́нется(odénetsja).
• Silent consonants in consonant clusters are transliterated: “че́стный” isčéstnyj, notčésnyj, and “со́лнце” issólnce, notsónce.
• Sibilants changing pronunciation are transliterated letter by letter as per the table: “сча́стье” issčástʹje, notščástʹje.
• Combinations “жи”, “ши”, and “ци” are transliterated asži,ši andci, notžy,šy andcy.
• The letter “ь” at the end of words ending in “ж”, “ш”, “щ” and “ч” has no effect on the pronunciation, but is still transliterated as ʹ:рожь(rožʹ),мышь(myšʹ),вещь(veščʹ),печь(pečʹ),де́лаешь(délaješʹ).

Syllabicstress is indicated by an acute accent ´ over the stressed vowel:

• Cyrillic: А́, а́, Е́, е́, И́, и́, О́, о́, У́, у́, Ы́, ы́, Э́, э́, Ю́, ю́, Я́, я́.
• Roman: Á, á, Jé, jé, Í, í, Ó, ó, Ú, ú, Ý, ý, É, ɛ́, Jú, jú, Já, já.

E.g.,ры́ба(rýba,“fish”).

Archaic letters:

• Cyrillic: Í, і́, Ѣ́, ѣ́, Ѵ́, ѵ́
• Roman: Í, í, Jě́, jě́, Í, í

• The vowel “ё” is normally stressed in native Russian words, but occasionally it may be necessary to show the stress for this letter: “ё́”.
• In rare cases where the stressedpre-1918 reform letterѣ(jě) is pronounced asё(jo), the letter is accented asѣ̈(jǒ), for example,гнѣ̈здышко(gnjǒ́zdyško). This may be required as an input to templates with certain stress-patterns, for exampleгнѣздо́(gnězdó), which is of type "d", is entered asгнѣ̈здо into the headword and declension table.

Russian text is automatically transliterated according to the above conventions. Manual transliteration is only necessary in a few situations, such as where the letter “е” needs to be transliteratedɛ. Manual transliteration is specified in one of two ways, depending on the template:

1. Most headword templates ({{ru-noun}},{{ru-adj}},{{ru-adv}}, etc.) take a|tr= parameter for the first headword, and|tr2=,|tr3= etc. for further headwords. Non-Russian-specific templates work similarly, e.g.{{l}},{{m}},{{ux}} etc. For example:{{m|ru|тест|tr=tɛst}}.
2. The headword templates{{ru-noun+}} and{{ru-proper noun+}}, as well as all declension and conjugation templates ({{ru-noun-table}},{{ru-decl-adj}},{{ru-conj}}) specify manual transliteration in the same parameter as the Russian, separated by//. For example:{{ru-noun-table|тест//tɛst}}.

The module that implements automatic transliteration handles a number of situations, e.g.:

• Adjectival “-ого”, “-его” and pre-1918 “-аго” are correctly transliterated as-ovo,-evo,-avo. This also works if accents are present on the vowels. Exceptions are made for the following words where “г” has the usual pronunciation: “много”, “немного”, “нaмного”, “ого”, “лого”, “сого”, “лего”.
• “сего́дня(sevódnja)” is transliteratedsevódnja, and all forms of “сего́дняшний(sevódnjašnij)” are similarly transliterated withsevódnjašn-.
• “что(što)”, “ничто́(ništó)”, “что́бы(štóby)”, “чтоб(štob)” (plus forms “что́-то(štó-to)”, “что́-нибудь(štó-nibudʹ)”, etc.) are correctly transliterated withš rather thanč.
• Forms of “лёгкий(ljóxkij)” and “мя́гкий(mjáxkij)”, as well as words with “лёхч”, “лехч” and “мяхч” in them, are correctly transliterated with-xk- and-xč-.

• Module:ru-translit
• Appendix:Russian alphabet
• Appendix:Russian pronunciation
• Wiktionary:Russian entry guidelines

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