Reversible Transliteration

Reversibility in transliteration ensures that a romanized text can be unambiguously converted back to its original script. This article explores the criteria, rules, advantages, and limitations of reversible systems, with comparisons to phonetic and simplified approaches.

Reversible transliteration guarantees a loss‑less round‑trip between source script and Latin representation. This article explains the criteria that make a system reversible, presents the ISO‑9 mapping for Cyrillic, and offers practical guidance for developers and linguists.