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The 'Romanian Cyrillic alphabet' was used to write Romanian language before 1860–1862, when it was officially replaced by a Latin-based alphabet. It is not the same as the Russian-based Moldovan alphabet used in Moldavian ASSR since 1926, and then in the Moldavian SSR between 1940 and 1989.
Between its discarding and the full adoption of the Latin alphabet, a so-called ''transitional alphabet'', was in place for a few years (it combined Cyrillic and Latin letters, and included some of the Latin letters with diacritics which came to be used in Romanian spelling).

Contents

Table of correspondence

See also

Notes

Table of correspondence

Letter	Numerical Value	Romanian Latin Equivalent	Transitional Alphabet	Phoneme	Name in Romanian[1]
А а	1	a	A a	/a/	Az
Б Б		b	Б Б	/b/	Buche
В в	2	v	В в	/v/	Vede
Г г	3	g, gh	G g	/g/	Glagol
Д д	4	d	D d	/d/	Dobru
Є є, Е e[2]	5	e	E e	/e/	Est
Ж ж		j	Ж ж		Juvete
Ѕ ѕ	6	dz		/dz/	Zalu
З з	7	z	Z z	/z/	Zemle
И и	8	i	I i	/i/	Ije
Й й[3]		i	Ĭ ĭ	/j/,
І і[4]	10	i	I i	/i/	I
К к	20	c, ch	K k	/k/	Kaku
Л л	30	l	L l	/l/	Liude
М м	40	m	M m	/m/	Mislete
N N	50	n	N n	/n/	Naş
, О o	70	o	O o		On
П п	80	p	П п	/p/	Pocoi
Р р	100	r	Р р	/r/	Râţă
С с	200	s	S s	/s/	Slovă
Т т	300	t	T t	/t/	Tferdu
, ОУ оу	400	u	У	/u/	Upsilon
, У		u	У	/u/	Ucu
Ф ф	500	f	F f	/f/	Fârta
Х х	600	h	Х х	/h/	Heru
[5]	800	o	O o	/o/	Omega
Щ щ		şt	Щ щ		Ştea
Ц ц	900	ţ	Ц ц		Ţi
Ч ч	90	c (before e, i)	Ч ч		Cervu
Ш ш		ş	Ш ш		Şa
Ъ ъ		ă, ŭ[6]	Ъ ъ	/ə/	Ier
Ы ы		â, î, ĭ, ŭ	Î î		Ieri
Ь ь		ă, ŭ, ĭ	—	—
		ea	Ea ea	/æ/	Eati(u)
Ю ю		iu	I i Ĭ ĭ		Io / Iu
, IA		ia	Ia ia		ia
, IE		ie	Ie ie
		ĭa, ea	Ia ia, Ea ea	, /æ/	Ia
		î	Î î
[7]	60	x	Ks ks	/ks/	Csi
	700	ps	Пs пs	/ps/	Psi
	9	th, ft	T t, Ft ft	/t/ and aprox. /θ/	Thita
	400	i, u	I i; У	/i/, /y/, /v/
↑ ↑		în îm	În în Îm îm	,	În
Џ џ		g (before e, i)	Џ џ		Gea

See also

★ Early Cyrillic alphabet

Notes

1. According to Costache Negruzzi, "Cum am învăţat româneşte", first published in ''Curier de Ambe Sexe'', I, nr. 22, p.337–343
2. Initial vs. non-initial shapes: Є/Е, /О, /У, IA/.
3. 'Й' is hardly a separate letter of the alphabet; the letters 'Ю', and also accept a brevity sign.
4. In loanwords of Greek origin (or ones adopted through the Greek language), letters 'И' and 'І' correspond to eta and iota, respectively. In the words of Romanian origin and in Slavic loanwords, their usage follows pre-1917 Russian rules, namely, 'І' before vowels, otherwise 'И'.
5. The distinction of and 'О' is present not only in loanwords, but in Romanian words as well.
6. Letters ''ĭ'' and ''ŭ'' represent a barely spoken/heard ''i'' or ''u''.
7. Letters , , and are used for copying Greek spelling of loanwords (especially for names and toponyms).