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What do the various abbreviations stand for?
User:Angr 16:02, 23 June 2006 (UTC)reply
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.
[1]
ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association.
[2]
WWS Comrie, Bernard: “Adaptations of the Cyrillic Alphabet”, in Peter T. Daniels & William Bright, eds. e World’s Writing Systems. New York/Oxford, 1996. [WWS]
Allworth Allworth, Edward: Nationalities of the Soviet East. Publications and Writing Systems. New York, 1971.
ISO 9 ISO 9:1995. Information and documentation – Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters – Slavic and non-Slavic languages. International Organization for Standardization, 1995