Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic is an international method for transliteration of text from the Cyrillic script to the Latin script (romanization). This system is most often seen in linguistics publications on Slavic languages.
Scientific transliteration, also called academic, linguistic, international, or scholarly transliteration, was first introduced in 1898 as part of the standardization process for the Preußische Instruktionen (PI; a library cataloging system used in German-speaking countries) in 1899. Despite the name, "scientific transliteration" has no connection to the scientific method or modern science; the word science before the 20th century usually referred to knowledge in general, rather than referring to natural or applied sciences in specific.
