REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF
UNITED NATIONS ROMANIZATION SYSTEMS FOR GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
Compiled by the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems
Version 4.0, March 2016

Marathi

The United Nations recommended system was approved in 1972 (II/11) and amended in 1977 (III/12), based on a report prepared by D. N. Sharma. The tables and their corrections were published in volume II of the conference reports1,2.

There is no evidence of the use of the system either in India or in international cartographic products.

Marathi (Marāṭhī) uses the alphasyllabic script Devanāgarī. For further details see the Hindi section of the report.

Romanization

The romanization system is given in the Hindi section of the report. The main exceptions to the table are as follows.

  1. Additional characters (absent in Hindi):
    ळ ḷa
    ऍ ă (abbreviated: कॅ kă)
  2. Different shapes of some characters and ligatures (for actual glyphs see the PDF version of the document):
    Hindi Marathi Roman
    ख ख kha
    ल ल la
    क्‍त क्त kta
    क्‍क क्क kka
  3. Ligatures may be formed with r as the first component: ऱ्य rya, ऱ्ह rha.
  4. Typical are ligatures ending in h: न्ह nh, म्ह mh, ल्ह lh, व्ह vh.
  5. The following independent characters are sometimes used: अि i, अी ī, अु u, अू ū, अे e, अै ai.

References

  1. Second United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. London, 10–31 May 1972. Vol. II. Technical papers. United Nations. New York 1974, p. 133.
  2. Third United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. Athens, 17 August – 7 September 1977. Vol. II, Technical papers, pp. 393 etc.