The following table contains languages with non-Roman writing systems as identified in the Report of the Working Group on Toponymic Data Exchange Formats and Standards (7th United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. New York, 13-22 January 1998. Document E/CONF.91/CRP.11). It also contains some other languages mentioned in the toponymic guidelines for individual countries.
Languages are arranged alphabetically after their English name. The names of languages conform to those mentioned in the appropriate United Nations resolutions.
In column 4 the year of the adoption of the system by the United Nations is given. In brackets the first part refers to the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, and the part after the slash to the number of the resolution.
In column 5 various other systems are mentioned that could have some international usage. An equation mark (=) will indicate that the systems in question more or less coincide. By national system one would ordinarily mean those adopted by national cartographic services for rendering their geographical names. BGN/PCGN refers to systems jointly adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use. Almost all the systems have been published in a book "Romanization Systems and Roman-Script Spelling Conventions" by the Defense Mapping Agency (U.S.) in 1994. I.G.N. stands for Institut gιographique national in France. ISO is the abbreviation of the International Organization for Standardization, and its systems here are presented for the sake of integrity. ISO transliteration schemes are normally not used for rendering geographical names.
| Language | Writing System | Country (Countries) | Romanization Systems | |
| United Nations | Other | |||
| Amharic | Ethiopic | Ethiopia | 1967 (I/17) | |
| BGN/PCGN 1967 | ||||
| Arabic | Perso-Arabic | (General) | 1972 (II/8) | = BGN/PCGN 1956 |
| I.G.N. System 1973 | ||||
| ISO 233:1984 (transliteration); ISO 233-2:1993 (simplified transliteration) | ||||
| Algeria | (see General) | |||
| Bahrain | (see General) | |||
| Chad | (see General) | |||
| Comoros (the) | (see General) | |||
| Djibouti | (see General) | |||
| Egypt | (see General) | |||
| National: Survey of Egypt | ||||
| Iraq | (see General) | |||
| Israel | (see General) | |||
| Jordan | (see General) | |||
| National: Royal Jordanian Geographic Centre System | ||||
| Kuwait | (see General) | |||
| Lebanon | (see General) | |||
| Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (the) | (see General) | |||
| Mauritania | (see General) | |||
| Morocco | (see (General) | |||
| Oman | (see General) | |||
| Qatar | (see General) | |||
| Saudi Arabia | (see General) | |||
| Somalia | (see General) | |||
| Sudan (the) | (see General) | |||
| Syrian Arab Republic (the) | (see General) | |||
| Tunisia | (see General) | |||
| United Arab Emirates (the) | (see General) | |||
| Yemen | (see General) | |||
| Armenian | Armenian | Armenia | | BGN/PCGN 1981 |
| ISO 9985:1996 | ||||
| Assamese | Bengali | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Byelorussian | Cyrillic | Belarus | | National 1998 |
| BGN/PCGN 1979 | ||||
| Bengali | Bengali | Bangladesh | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |||
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Bulgarian | Cyrillic | Bulgaria | 1977 (III/10) | |
| BGN/PCGN 1952 | ||||
| Burmese | Burmese | Myanmar | | BGN/PCGN 1970 |
| Chinese | Chinese | China | 1977 (III/8) | = BGN/PCGN 1979; = ISO 7098:1991 |
| Modified Wade-Giles (1912) | ||||
| Singapore | | Modified Wade-Giles (1912) | ||
| Dari | Perso-Arabic | Afghanistan | | BGN/PCGN 1958* |
| Dzongkha | Tibetan | Bhutan | | National 1994 |
| Georgian | Georgian | Georgia | | BGN/PCGN 1981 |
| ISO 9984:1996 | ||||
| Greek | Greek | Cyprus | 1987 (V/19) | = ELOT 743, = ISO 843:1997 |
| Greece | 1987 (V/19) | = ELOT 743, = ISO 843:1997 | ||
| Gujarati | Gujarati | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Hebrew | Hebrew | Israel | 1977 (III/13) | = BGN/PCGN 1962 |
| ISO 259:1984 (transliteration); ISO 259-2:1994 (simplified transliteration); ISO/DIS 259-3 (phonemic conversion) | ||||
| Hindi | Devanagari | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Japanese | Sino-Japanese | Japan | | National: Kunrei-siki (1954), = ISO 3602:1989 |
| National: Modified Hepburn, = BGN/PCGN | ||||
| Kannada | Kannada | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Kazakh | Cyrillic | Kazakhstan | | BGN/PCGN 1979 |
| Khmer | Khmer | Cambodia | 1972 (II/10) | = BGN/PCGN 1972 |
| Kirghiz | Cyrillic | Kyrgyzstan | | BGN/PCGN 1979 |
| Korean | Korean | (General) | | McCune Reischauer 1939, = BGN/PCGN |
| ISO/TR 11941:1996 | ||||
| Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the) | | National 1992 | ||
| Republic of Korea (the) | | National: Ministry of Education 1984 | ||
| Laotian | Laotian | Lao People's Democratic Republic (the) | | National System (= BGN/PCGN 1966) |
| Macedonian Cyrillic | Cyrillic | The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | 1977 (III/11) | = BGN/PCGN 1981 |
| Malayalam | Malayalam | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Maldivian | Divehi (Thaana) | Maldives | | National 1987 (= BGN/PCGN 1988) |
| Marathi | Devanagari | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Mongolian | Cyrillic | Mongolia | | BGN/PCGN 1964 |
| Mongolian | China | 1977 (III/8)** | ||
| Mongolia | | |||
| Nepalese | Devanagari | Nepal | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| BGN/PCGN 1964 | ||||
| Oriya | Oriya | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Pashto | Perso-Arabic | Afghanistan | | BGN/PCGN 1968 |
| Persian | Perso-Arabic | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 1967 (I/13) | = BGN/PCGN 1958 |
| Punjabi | Gurmukhi | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Russian | Cyrillic | Belarus | 1987 (V/18) | |
| Kazakhstan | 1987 (V/18) | |||
| Kyrgyzstan | 1987 (V/18) | |||
| Russia | 1987 (V/18) | |||
| BGN/PCGN 1947 | ||||
| ISO 9:1995 (transliteration) | ||||
| Tajikistan | 1987 (V/18) | |||
| Uzbekistan | 1987 (V/18) | |||
| Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic | Cyrillic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1977 (III/11) | |
| Yugoslavia | 1977 (III/11) | |||
| Sinhalese | Sinhalese | Sri Lanka | | |
| Tajik | Cyrillic | Tajikistan | | BGN/PCGN 1994 |
| Tamil | Tamil | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Singapore | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |||
| Sri Lanka | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |||
| Telugu | Telugu | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Thai | Thai | Thailand | 1967 (I/14) | = BGN/PCGN 1970 |
| ISO 11940:1998 (transliteration) | ||||
| Tibetan | Tibetan | China | 1977 (III/8)** | |
| Tigrinya | Ethiopic | Eritrea | | BGN/PCGN 1994 |
| Turkmen | Cyrillic | Turkmenistan | | BGN/PCGN 1979 |
| Uighur | Perso-Arabic | China | 1977 (III/8)** | |
| Ukrainian | Cyrillic | Ukraine | | National 1996 |
| BGN/PCGN 1965 | ||||
| Urdu | Perso-Arabic | India | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Pakistan | 1972 (II/11), 1977 (III/12) | |||
| National: Hunterian System | ||||
| Uzbek | Cyrillic | Uzbekistan | | BGN/PCGN 1979 |
Notes
* The system applies to Persian of which Dari is a variation
** Although the appropriate United Nations resolution does not mention these languages by name, it recognizes the Scheme for a Chinese Phonetic Alphabet (Pinyin) as China's official alphabet scheme and recommends that it be adopted as the international system for the romanization of Chinese geographical names. The Chinese Phonetic Alphabet (Pinyin) covers the direct transcription of Mongolian, Tibetan and Uighur scripts, as well as Chinese.