The British academy transliteration of Arabic and Persian
Subtitle: report of the committee appointed to draw up a practical scheme for the transliteration into English of words and names belonging to the languages of the Nearer East.
Publisher: Pub. for the British academy, by H. Milford, Oxford university press
Published: 1917
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Subjects: Transliteration -- Arabic into English; Transliteration -- Persian into English
Notes: From the Proceedings of the British academy, vol. VIII.
Preface signed: C. J. L.
The system "practically agrees with that adopted more than fifty years ago by the government of India for place-names in official use and for the names of soldiers in the Indian army, with such minor modifications as experience from time to time showed to be desirable."--Pref.