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United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)

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The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) publishes romanization systems used by national mapping agencies, the UN itself, and cartographic organizations worldwide. UNGEGN conferences have ratified systems for dozens of scripts.

Systems
32
With test vectors
32
Source scripts
15
Destination
Latn
Years
1967–2017
Languages
25

Publication timeline

Systems by decade.

  • 1960s 2
  • 1970s 17
  • 1980s 4
  • 1990s 2
  • 2000s 1
  • 2010s 6

Source scripts covered

15 scripts.

  • Arabic Arab 5 systems
  • Bengali (Bangla) Beng 2 systems
  • Cyrillic Cyrl 7 systems
  • Devanagari (Nagari) Deva 4 systems
  • Ethiopic (Geʻez) Ethi 1 system
  • Greek Grek 3 systems
  • Gujarati Gujr 1 system
  • Gurmukhi Guru 1 system
  • Katakana Kana 1 system
  • Malayalam Mlym 1 system
  • Mongolian Mong 2 systems
  • Oriya (Odia) Orya 1 system
  • Sinhala Sinh 1 system
  • Tamil Taml 1 system
  • Telugu Telu 1 system

Systems

All 32 transliteration systems.