This system, adopted in February 2002 by the State Department of Geodesy and Cartography of Georgia and the Institute of Linguistics, Georgian Academy of Sciences, establishes a transliteration system of the modern Georgian alphabet in Latin characters. Transliteration is a mapping from one system of writing into another. ... The Georgian alphabet is the script currently used to write the Georgian language and occasionally other languages of the Caucasus. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...

See also

Other systems

• ISO 9984
• BGN/PCGN romanization

The international standard ISO 9984 establishes a system for the transliteration into Latin characters of modern Georgian characters. ... BGN/PCGN romanization refers to the systems for romanization (transliteration into the Latin alphabet) and Roman-script spelling conventions adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN). ...

External links

• Transliteration of Non-Roman Scripts - Writing systems and transliteration tables, gathered by Thomas T. Pederson.