replacing the Latin script that had been used since the October Revolution. After 1939, materials published in Persian in the Persian alphabet were banned from the country. The alphabet below was supplemented by the letters Щ and Ы in 1952. In addition to these thirty-five letters, the letters , and can be found in loanwords, although they were officially dropped in the 1998 reform, along with the letter ь. Along with the deprecation of these letters, the 1998 reform also changed the order of the alphabet, which now has the characters with diacritics following their unaltered partners, e.g. , and , , etc. leading to the present order: . In 2010, it was suggested that the letters might be dropped as well. The letters and have the same function, except that э is used at the beginning of a word (ex. , "Iran"). The alphabet includes a number of letters not found in the Russian alphabet: {|class="wikitable" ! Description | Г with bar || И with macron || К with descender || У with macron || Х with descender || Ч with descender |- ! Letter | Ғ || Ӣ || Қ || Ӯ|| Ҳ || Ҷ |- ! Phoneme | || || || || || |} During the period when the Cyrillicization took place, Ӷ ӷ also appeared a few times in the table of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet. Transliteration standards The transliteration standards for the Tajik alphabet in Cyrillic into the Latin alphabet are as follows: Notes to the table above: ISO 9 — The International Organization for Standardization ISO 9 specification. KNAB — From the placenames database of the Institute of the Estonian Language. WWS — From World’s Writing Systems, Bernard Comrie (ed.) ALA-LC — The standard of the Library of Congress and the American Library Association. Edward Allworth, ed. Nationalities of the Soviet East. Publications and Writing Systems (NY: Columbia University Press, 1971) BGN/PCGN — The standard of the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use. Hebrew The Hebrew alphabet (an abjad like the Persian alphabet) is used for the Jewish Bukhori dialect primarily in Samarkand and Bukhara. Additionally, since 1940, when Jewish schools were closed in Central Asia, the use of the Hebrew Alphabet outside Hebrew liturgy fell into disuse and Bukharian Jewish publications such as books and newspapers began to appear using the Tajik