ŚWIATA, ICH STOLIC - KSNG Nazwy geograficzne

The rules applied in transliteration and transcription toLatin alphabet from the languagesus;ing other alphabetsAfghanistan: Pashto anci Dari are the officiallanguages of the country:transliteration system prepared by the Afghan Geodetic andCartographic Service, used in Nowa EncyklopediaPowszechna PWN, was applied.Armenia: due to lack of official rules of transliteration, a systemproposed by Prof. A. Pisowicz, used in Nowa EncyklopediaPowszechna PWN, was applied.Belarus, Russia, pkraine: ru1es of transliteration from Cyrillic alphabetwere applied, according to the rules determined by PolskaNol71Ul PN 70 N-OnO} of January 1st, 1971, with slightmodifications to account for recent changes in Belarussianand Ukrainian orthography.Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand: transliteration systemcommonly used in international cartography was applied.China: the United Nations recommended application of Chinesephonetic alphabet pinyin. based on Latin alphabet. The rulesof pronunciation are given in explanatory notes to theGeograficzny Atlas Świata and in the publication Świat ­Atlas geograficzny Z częścią alfabetyczną, published byPPWK.Georgia: due to lack of official rules of transliteration, a system proposedby Prof. J. Braun was applied.India and the neighbouring countries: Hindi and English (asauxiliary) are the official languages of India; in someprovinces locallanguages (e.g. Malayalam) have an officialstatus; transliteration rules recommended by the UN wereapplied. It also concerns Bengali in Bangladesh, languagesof Bhutan and Nepal, Urdu of Pakistan and other languagesof the region.xv