# How Kazakh and Russian names are written in Latin letters. Unverified: an approximation of
# common practice, not a standard. See README.md in this folder.
#
# One Cyrillic letter per line with the ways it is written, the most common first. The list
# joins what passports of Kazakhstan have used (kh, zh, ye after a vowel, ss between vowels)
# with the official Kazakh Latin alphabet of 2021 written without its diacritics (q, j, i).
# Every given name of the lists is spelled in all these ways when the lists are read.
#
# Four more rules are in the code, because they depend on the letters around:
# - "е" is also "ye" at the start of a word and after a vowel, "ъ" or "ь";
# - "с" between two vowels is also "ss";
# - "ий" at the end of a word is also "y";
# - "ия" at the end of a word is also "ia".

[letters]
а = a
ә = a
б = b
в = v
г = g
ғ = g, gh
д = d
е = e
ё = yo, e
ж = zh, j
з = z
и = i
й = i, y
к = k
қ = k, q
л = l
м = m
н = n
ң = n, ng
о = o
ө = o
п = p
р = r
с = s
т = t
у = u
ұ = u
ү = u
ф = f
х = kh, h
һ = h
ц = ts
ч = ch
ш = sh
щ = shch
ъ =
ы = y
і = i
ь =
э = e
ю = yu, iu
я = ya, ia
