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Vernacular	Romanization	Vernacular	Romanization
Upper case letters		Lower case letters
Ы	Y	ы	y
Ь	ʹ (soft sign)	ь	ʹ (soft sign)
Ѣ (see Note 2)	Ě	ѣ (see Note 2)	ě
Э	Ė	э	ė
Ю	I͡U	ю	i͡u
Я	I͡A	я	i͡a

Note

1. Letter found in Old Belarusian and in modern publications in Tarashkevitsa orthography.
2. Letter is considered obsolete for the modern Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet; found primarily in Old Belarusian and occasionally in late 19th- and early 20th-century texts.
3. Do not confuse with the digraph кг (also romanized as “kh”). Manual review may be needed when transcribing data in vernacular characters in order to distinguish х from кг.
4. Letter is considered obsolete for the modern Belarusian Cyrillic alphabet; found primarily in Old Belarusian and occasionally in late 19th- and early 20th-century texts. Do not confuse with the digraph шч (also romanized as “shch”). Manual review may be needed when transcribing data in vernacular characters in order to distinguish щ from шч.