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{{short description|Representation of the Ukrainian language using Latin letters}}
{{Self reference|For the romanization of Ukrainian on the English Wikipedia, see [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Romanization of Ukrainian]]}}

The '''romanization of Ukrainian''', or '''Latinization of Ukrainian''', is the representation of the [[Ukrainian language]] in [[Latin alphabet|Latin letters]]. Ukrainian is 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 (linguistics)|transcription]] (representing the spoken word).

In contrast to romanization, there have been several historical proposals for a [[Ukrainian Latin alphabet]], usually based on those used by [[West Slavic languages]], but none have been widely accepted.