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In Russia and those countries where Russian is used regularly to communicate via mobile phone and chat room, an alternate and free style of transliteration has arisen. The main reason that transliteration is used with Russian, especially in Russia, is that in text messages you get more Latin characters for your money: usually '''160 Latin''' characters per charged message versus '''60/70 Cyrillic''' characters. You can get more message in Latin script. Obviously the onus is on getting '''one''' Latin symbol (of which there are 26) for each Cyrillic symbol (of which there are 33 in Russian, and extra symbols in Ukrainian and other Cyrillic-based languages). Only those used for Russian are exemplified here. (Where variants are given, the first is most common and the last is less common - although trends change quickly and differ from person-to-person.) А - a Б - b В - v Г - g Д - d Е - e (and ye, je, occasionally in initial or post-'''ъ''' or -'''ь''' position) Ё - e, yo, jo
З - z И - i Й - i, y, j К - k Л - l М - m Н - n О - o П - p Р - r С - s, c Т - t У - u, y Ф - f Х - h, x, kh Ц - c, ts Ч - ch, 4 Ш - sh, w Щ - sh, w, sch, shh, shch, shsh Ъ - ' (apostrophe), " (quote marks), transliterated Ы - y, i Ь - ' (apostrophe), transliterated - usually only transcribed with "ль" Э - e Ю - yu, u, iu, ju Я - ya, R, ia, ja |
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