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The following system of transliteration of Ukrainian from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet is being proposed as a part to the proposed Naming conventions (Cyrillic). Current practice is documented at Naming_conventions_(Cyrillic). Please discuss at the talk page.

Conventional name
An object that has a conventional name in English should be named that way, instead of transliterating.
 * For example: Chorne more→Black Sea, Ukraina→Ukraine.

National transliteration system
The following table describes a method to derive the most common informal transcriptions of Ukrainian names into the Latin alphabet, suitable for English-speakers.

The table matches the simplified National transliteration system.

The system corresponds to BGN/PCGN romanization system of Ukrainian, with the following exceptions:
 * г in the combination зг transliterates into gh;
 * є, ю, я transliterate into ie, iu, ia, except at the beginning of words;
 * ї, й both transliterate into i, except at the beginning of words;
 * щ transliterates into sch;
 * ь and apostrophe are omitted, except in ьо and ьї.