The Kyrgyz language

Kyrgyz language

Kyrgyz or Kirgiz, also Kirghiz, Kyrghiz, Qyrghiz is a Turkic language and, together with Russian, an official language of Kyrgyzstan...

 language is written in the Kyrgyz alphabet

Kyrgyz alphabet

The Kyrgyz alphabets are the alphabets used to write the Kyrgyz language. The Kyrgyz language uses the following alphabets:* The Cyrillic script is officially used in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan...

, a modification of the Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

. There is not one commonly accepted system of romanization

Romanization

In linguistics, romanization or latinization is the representation of a written word or spoken speech with the Roman script, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system . Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written...

 of Kyrgyz, i.e. a rendering of Kyrgyz in the Latin alphabet

Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...

. Some Kyrgyz romanization systems are given below:

Cyrillic	ALA/LC ALA-LC Romanization ALA-LC is a set of standards for romanization, or the representation of text in other writing systems using the Latin alphabet. The initials stand for American Library Association - Library of Congress....	BGN/PCGN BGN/PCGN romanization BGN/PCGN romanization refers to the systems for romanization and Roman-script spelling conventions adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use .The systems have been approved by the BGN and the PCGN for...	ISO 9 ISO 9 The international standard ISO 9 establishes a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters constituting the alphabets of many Slavic and some non-Slavic languages....
а	a	a	a
б	b	b	b
в	v	v	v
г	g	g	g
д	d	d	d
е	e	e	e
ё	ë	yo	ë
ж	zh	j	ž
з	z	z	z
и	i	i	i
й	ĭ	y	j
к	k	k	k
л	l	l	l
м	m	m	m
н	n	n	n
ң		ng
о	o	o	o
ө		ö	ô
п	p	p	p
р	r	r	r
с	s	s	s
т	t	t	t
у	u	u	u
ү		ü	ù
ф	f	f	f
х	kh	kh	h
ц		ts	c
ч	ch	ch	č
ш	sh	sh	š
щ	shch	shch	ŝ
ъ	″	"	″
ы	y	y	y
ь	′	'	′
э	ė	e	è
ю		yu	û
я		ya	â

Besides these systems, one may encounter different romanizations on e.g. road signs in Kyrgyzstan. For instance, "Чок" may be romanized as "Czoc".