63:. Romanization systems and spelling conventions for different languages have been gradually introduced over the course of several years. The currently used set is available on the UK government site. A complete list of BGN/PCGN systems and agreements covering the following languages is given below (the date of adoption is given in the parentheses). The status "agreement" refers to systems which were created by authorities of the corresponding nations and then adopted by BGN and PCGN.
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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:
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The systems have been approved by the BGN and the PCGN for application to geographic names, but they have also been used for personal names and text in the US and the UK.
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Guidance on the US Board on
Geographic Names (BGN)/Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN) romanization systems.
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Serbian is not romanized by BGN/PCGN; instead, the Latin script that corresponds to the
Cyrillic script is used.
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Details of all the jointly approved systems are outlined in the
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Chinese characters are romanized by BGN/PCGN by means of the
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Romanization
Systems and Roman-Script Spelling Conventions
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Romanization
Systems and Roman-Script Spelling Conventions
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National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, September 2014.
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Romanization system for
Bulgarian: BGN/PCGN 2013 System.
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and Roman-script spelling conventions adopted by the
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209:2002 table of correspondences
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999:Romanization of Ukrainian
787:1958 system; updated 2019
287:official Bulgarian system
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200:Azerbaijani
187:2011 system
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136:1967 system
119:2007 system
98:2012 system
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1377:Belarusian
1146:References
716:(Cyrillic)
663:Macedonian
261:Belarusian
1474:Maldivian
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989:Ukrainian
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680:Maldivian
490:Kabardian
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278:Bulgarian
74:File link
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