How the Transliterator Works
Overview
The Romanian Cyrillic alphabet was used in Romanian United Principalities before the adoption of the Latin alphabet in the mid-19th century. This script was derived from the Old Church Slavonic alphabet and was adapted to suit the phonetic requirements of the Romanian language. It was primarily used for religious texts, administrative documents, and literature. The transition to the Latin alphabet was part of a broader cultural shift towards Western Europe, aiming to modernize and standardize the Romanian written language.
This transliterator software allows you to type Romanian Latin characters into a text box and automatically converts them into their corresponding Romanian Cyrillic characters. You can use both the physical keyboard and the on-screen keyboard to input text. Additionally, you can modify the characters using Shift, Alt, and accent keys to produce different forms of the characters.
Features
- Real-time Transliteration: As you type Latin characters, they are immediately transliterated into Cyrillic characters in the text box.
- On-screen Keyboard: Clickable on-screen keyboard mirrors the functionality of a physical keyboard, providing an easy way to input characters, especially on devices without a physical keyboard.
- Modifier Keys:
- Shift: Capitalizes the characters.
- Alt: Provides alternative transliterations for certain characters.
- Accents: Adds acute (´) or grave (`) accents to vowels.
Using the On-screen Keyboard
- Typing Characters: Click on any key on the on-screen keyboard to input that character into the text box. The character will appear in its Cyrillic form.
- Shift Key: Click the “shift” key to enable capitalization. The shift key will remain active until a character is typed, after which it will reset.
- Alt Key: Click the “alt” key to enable alternative transliterations for certain characters. Like the shift key, it will reset after typing a character.
- Accents: Click the “´” or “`” keys to add an accent to vowels. The accent key will reset after typing a character.
Special Keys
- Copy Button: Click the “copy” button to copy the text from the text box to your clipboard.
- Delete Button: Click the “delete” button to clear all text from the text box.
Character Transliteration Rules
- Basic Transliteration:
- a → а
- b → б
- c → ч
- d → д
- e → є
- f → ф
- g → г
- h → х
- i → и
- j → џ
- k → к
- l → ʌ
- m → м
- n → н
- o → ѡ
- p → п
- q → й
- r → р
- s → с
- t → т
- u → ꙋ
- v → в
- w → ѧ
- x → ѯ
- y → ѵ
- z → з
- ă → ъ
- â → ѫ
- î → ꙟ
- ș → ш
- ț → ц
- Alternative Transliterations (Alt Key):
- t → ѳ
- p → ѱ
- â → ѥ
- u → ю
- e → ѣ
- ș → щ
- o → о
- z → ѕ
- j → ж
- i → ї
- w → ѩ
- q → ꙋ̆
- Accent Modifications:
- Vowels (а, є, и, ѡ, ꙋ, ѵ, ъ, ѫ, ꙟ, ѩ, ѧ, ѣ, ї, ѥ, ю, о) will get an acute or grave accent when the corresponding accent key is used.