REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF
UNITED NATIONS ROMANIZATION SYSTEMS FOR GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES
Compiled by the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems
Version 2.2, January 2003

Pashto

No romanization system for Pashto (Afghan) has been approved at the United Nations conferences on the standardization of geographical names.

Pashto uses a Perso-Arabic script that is written from right to left. As in Arabic and Persian, vowels are marked only sporadically to indicate pronunciation, otherwise they are omitted.

System of romanization

The BGN/PCGN 1968 System gives the following romanization:

1	ا	-A
2	ب	b
3	پ	p
4	ت	t
5	ټ	ṯ
6	ث	s̄
7	ج	j
8	چ	ch
9	څ	ts
10	ځ	dz
11	ح	ḩ
12	خ	kh
13	د	d
14	ډ	ḏ
15	ذ	z̄
16	ر	r
17	ړ	ṟ
18	ز	z
19	ژ	zh
20	ږ	z͟h
21	س	s
22	ش	sh
23	ښ	s͟h
24	ص	ş
25	ض	ẕ
26	ط	ţ
27	ظ	z̧
28	ع	‘
29	غ	gh
30	ف	f
31	ق	q
32	ک	k
33	گ (ګ)	g
34	ل	l
35	م	m
36	ن	n
37	ڼ	ṉ
38	و	w
39	ه	h
40	ى (ي)	y

• ^A Not romanized, but see romanizations accompanying alip (ا) in the table for vowels.

Vowel characters and diacritical marks (ب stands for any consonant)

1	بَ	a
2	بَا	ā
3	بِ	i
4	بِى	ī
5	بِي	ī
6	بَىْ	ay
7	بِىْ	ey
8	ئ	ey
9	ې	ē
10	بِو	ew
11	بٙ	ê
12	ٙۍ	êy
13	بُ	u
14	بُو	ū
15	بُوْ	ow
16	بُوى	ūy
17	آ	ā
18	ء	’
19	بّ	(A)

• ^A Doubling of consonant letter.