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Resolutions adopted by UN conferences

The following is a list of resolutions on romanization and script conversion, adopted by United Nations conferences on the standardization of geographical names. The texts of all resolutions are available on the UNGEGN website and in the resolution database. Resolutions of a general character are in bold.

2017

XI/3. Romanization of Arabic geographical names

2012

2007

IX/8. Implementation of romanization systems by sponsoring countries
IX/9. Romanization of Hebrew

2002

VIII/13. Romanization of Thai geographical names
VIII/14. Romanization of Serbian Cyrillic

1998

VII/4. Review of the amended Beirut system of 1972 for the romanization of Arabic script
Note. This resolution is an elaboration of res. II/8

1987

1982

IV/14. Conversion into non-Roman writing systems
IV/15. Guidelines for the consideration of romanization systems
Note. See also res. IX/8
IV/16. Guidelines for the achievement of systems of romanization
IV/17. Transliteration into Roman and Devanagari scripts of the Indian Division

1977

III/8. Romanization of Chinese geographical names
III/9. Romanization of Arabic characters
Note. This resolution is an elaboration of res. II/8 and is superseded by res. XI/3
III/10. Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet
Note. This resolution is superseded by res. X/7
III/11. Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian Cyrillic alphabets of Yugoslavia
Note. See also corrections in res. VIII/14
III/12. Transliteration into Roman and Devanagari scripts of the Indian Division
Note. See also further comments in res. IV/17
III/13. Romanization of the Hebrew alphabet
Note. This resolution is updated by res. IX/9
III/25. Single romanization system for each non-Roman writing system

1972

II/5. Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet
Note. This resolution is superseded by res. III/10 (and later by res. X/7)
II/6. Cyrillic alphabets of Yugoslavia
Note. This resolution is elaborated in res. III/11
II/7. Romanization of the Amharic alphabet
II/8. Romanization of Arabic geographical names
Note. See also further comments in res. III/9 and VII/4; the resolution is superseded by res. XI/3
II/9. Romanization of Hebrew geographical names
Note. This resolution is elaborated in res. III/13 and updated by res. IX/9
II/10. Romanization of Khmer geographical names
II/11. Transliteration into Roman and Devanagari of the languages of the Indian group
Note. This resolution is updated by res. III/12 and commented in res. IV/17
II/13. Publication of romanization systems

1967

I/9. A single romanization system
I/10. Diacritical signs which accompany letters of the Roman alphabet
I/11. Diacritical signs which accompany letters of the Arabic alphabet
I/12. Romanization of Arabic geographical names
Note. This resolution is updated by res. II/8
I/13. Romanization of Iranian geographical names
Note. This resolution is superseded by res. X/8
I/14. Romanization of Thai geographical names
Note. This resolution is updated by res. VIII/13
I/15. Romanization of Chinese geographical names
Note. This resolution is updated by res. III/8
I/17. Transliteration of Amharic into the Roman alphabet
Note. This resolution is elaborated in res. II/7

Updated: 2023-12-21