UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES (UNGEGN)

Working Group on Romanization Systems

United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names. Preliminary Report on Their Current Status

Compiled by the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems. Version 1.3. March 2000

• Introduction
• List of languages, countries and romanization systems
• Romanization systems
  • Languages/scripts covered by systems recommended by the United Nations
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    Amharic | Arabic | Assamese | Bengali | Bulgarian | Chinese | Greek | Gujarati | Hebrew | Hindi | Kannada | Khmer | Macedonian Cyrillic | Malayalam | Marathi | Mongolian (in China) | Nepali | Oriya | Persian | Punjabi | Russian | Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Tibetan | Uighur | Urdu
  • Other languages/scripts
    Armenian | Burmese | Byelorussian | Dzongkha | Georgian | Japanese | Kazakh | Kirghiz | Korean | Laotian | Maldivian | Mongolian (Cyrillic) | Pashto | Sinhalese | Tajik | Tigrinya | Turkmen | Ukrainian | Uzbek
• About this report.
• Changes since version 1.2 (November 1999) [2000-04-14]

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