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Romanization
Systems
PCGN and the US
Board on Geographic Names jointly agree romanization systems
to be used by official bodies in the United Kingdom and the
United States for geographical names originally rendered in
non-Roman scripts. The joint systems are published in
Romanization Systems and Roman-script Spelling Conventions,
copies of which are available from the US Board on
Geographic Names.
The following
tables are currently available to download in .pdf format. Click
on the required script to access the table:
Arabic (pdf NB this is
a large file 3.4MB)
Armenian
(pdf 298KB)
Bulgarian (pdf 365KB)
Burmese (pdf 199KB)
Byelorussian (pdf 336KB)
Chinese
Characters (pdf 231KB)
Georgian
(pdf 233KB)
Greek (pdf
197KB)
Hebrew (pdf 122KB)
Japanese Kana (pdf 361KB)
Kirghiz (pdf
346KB)
Khmer (pdf 335KB)
Korean (pdf 274KB)
Lao (pdf 450KB)
Macedonian Cyrillic (pdf 355KB)
Maldivian (pdf 348KB)
Mongolian Cyrillic (pdf 357KB)
Nepali (pdf
384KB)
Serbian
Cyrillic (pdf 325KB)
Tatar
(table of correspondences for Roman script) (pdf 379KB)
Thai (pdf 186KB)
Tigrinya (pdf
240KB)
Turkmen (table of
correspondences for new Roman script) (pdf 85KB)
Uzbek (table of
correspondences for new Roman script) (pdf 75KB)
Roman-script spelling conventions (pdf 285KB)
Further tables will be added as they become available.
The United
Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names established a
Working Group on Romanization Systems to consider and reach
agreement on romanization systems proposed by national
official bodies.
For more information and to download tables of systems
adopted by the UN, please
click here.
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