Script converter

Each language can be written in any writing system (script). Due to political or religious differences, some languages are or used to be written in several scripts. For instance, in today’s Ukraine, Crimean Tatar is written both in Cyrillic and Latin letters, whereas until the mid-1920s, also in Arabic ones.

Unlike in Western Europe, where just the single Latin alphabet is employed for writing and publishing, multiple scripts have been in use across Central and Eastern Europe, including the Ukrainian lands.

Script converters allow for converting a text in a given language (e.g. Crimean Tatar) from one script to another (e.g. from Cyrillic to Latin letters). The purpose is dual. The user may want to read such a text in a script with which they are more familiar. On the other hand, the user may also employ a script converter to acquire a skill of reading in another script. The latter goal informs script converters for languages that were not written in a given script, as in the case of the converter from Ukrainian Cyrillic to the Yiddish alphabet of Hebrew letters.

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External Script Converters (List Provided by Tomasz Kamusella)

Bosnian in Latin or Cyrillic letters rendered in the Bosnian Arabic Script

To help speakers of Ukrainian and other Slavic languages, especially with some knowledge of BCMS (former Serbo-Croatian) with the acquisition of the Ottoman Turkish-style Arabic script for writing in (South) Slavic (that is, today’s Bosnian).

Apart from Bosnian, the converter works for Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian, as well as for the former Serbo-Croatian language be it written in Cyrillic or Latin letters.

This script converter was developed by and is hosted at the Language Institute (Institut za jezik) in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Bosanska AREBICA. Konverter latinice ili ćirilice u bosansku arebicu (authors: Meris Gutošić, Institut za jezik)

https://www.e-bosanski.ba/konverter-pisama/bosanska-arebica/

Bosnian in Latin or Cyrillic letters rendered in Glagolitic

To help speakers of Ukrainian and other Slavic languages, especially with some knowledge of BCMS (former Serbo-Croatian) with the acquisition of the (Old Slavic) Glagolitic alphabet.

Apart from Bosnian, the converter works for Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian, as well as for the former Serbo-Croatian language be it written in Cyrillic or Latin letters.

This script converter was developed by and is hosted at the Language Institute (Institut za jezik) in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Bosanska GLAGOLJICA. Konverter latinice ili ćirilice u bosansku glagoljicu (authors: Enis Alađuz and Lejla Nakaš, Institut za jezik)

https://www.e-bosanski.ba/konverter-pisama/bosanska-glagoljica/

Bosnian in Latin or Cyrillic letters rendered in Bosančica (Old Bosnian Cyrillic)

To help speakers of Ukrainian and other Slavic languages, especially with some knowledge of BCMS (former Serbo-Croatian) with the acquisition of Bosančica (Old Bosnian Cyrillic).

Apart from Bosnian, the converter works for Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian, as well as for the former Serbo-Croatian language be it written in Cyrillic or Latin letters.

This script converter was developed by and is hosted at the Language Institute (Institut za jezik) in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

BOSANČICA. Konverter latinice ili ćirilice u bosančicu (authors: Miomirka Mila Melank and Lejla Nakaš, Institut za jezik).

https://www.e-bosanski.ba/konverter-pisama/bosancica/

Mongolian Cyrillic (as employed in Mongolia) rendered in the Mongolian Traditional (Old Uyghur) Script (used in China’s autonomous region of Inner Mongolia)

To help speakers of Cyrillic alphabet-based languages, especially with some knowledge of Mongolian, with the acquisition of the Traditional Mongolian (Old Uyghur) script, as employed for writing and publishing Mongolian in today’s China.

This Traditional Mongolian script is of import for Rus’an and Ukrainian history, due the inclusion of the Rus’an lands in the Mongolian Empire in the 13th-15th centuries.

The Traditional Mongolian (Old Uyghur) script is written vertically up-to-down, and left-to-right

This script converter was developed by and is hosted at the Türk Dilleri Portalı / Portal of Turkic Languages

Mongolian Conversion: Cyrillic to Traditional Mongolian (authors: Onon company, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China)

https://mt.onon.cn/convert

Uyghur Latin alphabet Rendered in the Old Uyghur Script

To help speakers of Latin alphabet-based languages, especially with some knowledge of Uyghur, Turkish and other Turkic languages, with the acquisition of the Old Uyghur script.

This Old Uyghur script is of import for Rus’an and Ukrainian history because it spawned the Old (Traditional) Mongolian script

This script converter was developed by and is hosted at the Türk Dilleri Portalı / Portal of Turkic Languages

Latin – Old Uyghur Transliteration (author: Salih Çınar)

https://turkdilleri.com/en/tools/old-uyghur-transliteration

Turkish Latin alphabet Rendered in the Old Turkic Script

To help speakers of Latin alphabet-based languages, especially with some knowledge of Turkish, with the acquisition of the Old Turkic script (also known as the Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes).

Until the early modern period a form of this script was employed for Hungarian inscriptions in Transylvania. Nowadays, after 2010, it was revived in Hungary for publishing and semi-official uses.

This script converter was developed by and is hosted at the Türk Dilleri Portalı / Portal of Turkic Languages

Old Turkic Transliteration & Keyboard (author: Salih Çınar)

https://turkdilleri.com/en/tools/old-turkic-transliteration

Turkish Latin alphabet Rendered in the pre-1928 Ottoman Turkish Arabic Script

To help speakers of Latin alphabet-based languages, especially with some knowledge of Turkish, with the acquisition of the pre-1928 Ottoman Turkish Arabic script.

This script converter was developed by and is hosted at the Türk Dilleri Portalı / Portal of Turkic Languages

Ottoman Turkish Transliteration & Keyboard (author Salih Çınar)

https://turkdilleri.com/en/tools/ottoman-turkish-transliteration