Editing Romanization of Russian (section)

==Latin script==
{{main article|Russian Latin alphabet}}
In a second sense, the '''romanization''' or '''Latinization of Russian'''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wellisch|first=Hans H.|title=The Conversion of Scripts, Its Nature, History, and Utilization|publisher=Wiley|year=1978|isbn=0471016209|location=New York}}</ref> may also indicate the introduction of a dedicated [[Latin script|Latin alphabet]] for writing the Russian language. Such an alphabet would not necessarily bind closely to the traditional Cyrillic orthography. The transition from Cyrillic to Latin has been proposed several times throughout history (especially during the Soviet era), but was never conducted on a large scale, except for informal romanizations in the computer era.

The most serious possibility of adoption of a Latin alphabet for the Russian language was discussed in 1929–30 during the [[Latinisation (USSR)|campaign of latinisation of the languages of the USSR]], when a special commission was created to propose a latinisation system for Russian.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1301421/print |title="О латинизации русского алфавита" |date=18 January 2010 |access-date=2013-04-26 |archive-date=2013-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830042640/http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1301421/print |language=ru |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Latin letter names in Russian===
The letters of the Latin script are named in Russian as following (and are borrowed from [[French language|French]] and/or [[German language|German]]):<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A42Jbep0sU Russian names of Latin Letters]</ref>
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* A: ''a'' ({{lang|ru|а}})
* B: ''be'' ({{lang|ru|бэ}})
* C: ''ce'' ({{lang|ru|цэ}})
* D: ''de'' ({{lang|ru|дэ}})
* E: ''je'' or ''e'' ({{lang|ru|е}}) or ({{lang|ru|э}})
* F: ''ef'' ({{lang|ru|эф}})
* G: ''ge'' or ''že'' ({{lang|ru|гэ}}) or ({{lang|ru|жэ}})
* H: ''aš'' or ''ha'' ({{lang|ru|аш}}) or ({{lang|ru|ха}})
* I: ''i'' ({{lang|ru|и}})
* J: ''jot'' or ''ži'' ({{lang|ru|йот}}) or ({{lang|ru|жи}})
* K: ''ka'' ({{lang|ru|ка}})
* L: ''elʹ'' ({{lang|ru|эль}})
* M: ''em'' ({{lang|ru|эм}})
* N: ''en'' ({{lang|ru|эн}})
* O: ''o'' ({{lang|ru|о}})
* P: ''pe'' ({{lang|ru|пэ}})
* Q: ''ku'' ({{lang|ru|ку}})
* R: ''er'' ({{lang|ru|эр}})
* S: ''es'' ({{lang|ru|эс}})
* T: ''te'' ({{lang|ru|тэ}})
* U: ''u'' ({{lang|ru|у}})
* V: ''ve'' ({{lang|ru|вэ}})
* W: ''dublʹ-ve'' ({{lang|ru|дубль-вэ}})
* X: ''iks'' ({{lang|ru|икс}})
* Y: ''igrek'' ({{lang|ru|игрек}}) or ''ipsilon'' ({{lang|ru|ипсилон}})
* Z: ''zet'' ({{lang|ru|зет}})
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