tetrak_translit.hy.bgn_pcgn

BGN/PCGN: the geographic names system, the source of Yerevan.

Written from the BGN/PCGN 1981 romanisation system for Armenian, agreed by the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use. It is a pronunciation-led system for reformed (Eastern) Armenian and the only standard here with positional rules: ե is ye and ո is vo at the start of a word, and և is yev there, ev elsewhere. ռ is rr, ը is y and aspiration is a plain apostrophe. Lossy: y is both ը and յ, and the digraphs are as ambiguous as ALA-LC’s.