| Description | 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
Pakistan, India or in international cartographic products.
Instead, in Pakistan the Hunterian system is officially
used3. The resolutions III/12 (1977) and IV/17 (1982)
recommended association, inter alia, with Pakistan, in
carrying out further studies on the system.
Urdu (Urdū) uses the Perso-Arabic script which is written
from right to left. In the script vowel points are usually
omitted which makes it difficult to obtain uniform
romanizations. Some of the Arabic consonants are
undifferentiated in romanization which means that the
system is not fully reversible.
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