BGN/PCGN Romanization - Systems

Systems

  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Amharic (1967 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Arabic (1956 system; BGN 1946, PCGN 1956)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Khowar (1996 system; BGN 1997, PCGN 1998)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Armenian (1981 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Azerbaijani Cyrillic script (1993 agreement)—note that the Government of Azerbaijan abandoned the Cyrillic script in 1991 and adopted the Roman alphabet to replace it
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Bulgarian (1952 system; BGN 1949, PCGN 1952)—see Romanization of Bulgarian
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Burmese (1970 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian (1979 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Chinese (1979 agreement)—Chinese characters are romanized by BGN/PCGN by means of the Pinyin system
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Dhivehi (1988 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Georgian (1981 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Greek (1962 system; PCGN 1941, later adopted by BGN, jointly revised in 1962)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Hebrew (1962 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Japanese kana—Japanese is romanized by BGN/PCGN by means of the modified Hepburn system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Kazakh (1979 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Khmer (1972 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Kyrgyz (1979 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Korean (BGN 1943, with PCGN soon to follow)—Korean is romanized by BGN/PCGN by means of the McCune-Reischauer system
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Lao (1966 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Macedonian (1981 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Mongolian (1964 system; PCGN 1957, BGN 1964)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Nepali (1964 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Pashto (1968 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Persian (1958 system; BGN 1946, PCGN 1958)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Russian (1947 system; BGN 1944, PCGN 1947)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Serbian (Cyrillic script) — Serbian is not romanized by BGN/PCGN; instead, the Roman script that corresponds to the Cyrillic script is used
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Thai (1970 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Turkmen (1979 system)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Ukrainian (1965 system)—see Romanization of Ukrainian
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Uzbek (1979 system)

In addition to the systems above, BGN/PCGN adopted Roman Script Spelling Conventions for languages that use the Roman alphabet but use letters not present in the English alphabet. These conventions exist for the following four languages:

  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Faroese (1968 agreement)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of German (1986 agreement)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Icelandic (1968 agreement)
  • BGN/PCGN romanization of Northern Sami (1984 agreement)

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