Sunday, May 9, 2010

Sanskrit Transliteration Guide (Source: Wikipedia)

Vowels

Devanāgarī IAST ITRANS
a a
ā A / aa
i i
ī I / ii
u u
ū U / uu
Diphthongs
e e
ai ai
o o
au au
Alveolar approximant
RRi / R^i
RRI / R^I
LLi / L^i
LLI / L^I
Anusvara
अं M / .n / .m
Visarga
अः H
Consonants The Devanāgarī consonant letters include an implicit 'a' sound.
In all of the transliteration systems, that 'a' sound should be represented explicitly.


velars palatals retroflexes dentals labials
Dev.
IAST

k K

c C

ṭ Ṭ

t T

p P
unvoiced stops
ITRANS
k
ch
T
t
p
Dev.
IAST

kh Kh

ch Ch

ṭh Ṭh

th Th

ph Ph
aspirated unvoiced stops
ITRANS kh
Ch
Th
th
ph
Dev.
IAST

g G

j J

ḍ Ḍ

d D

b B
voiced stops
ITRANS g
j
D
d
b
Dev.
IAST

gh Gh

jh Jh

ḍh Ḍh

dh Dh

bh Bh
aspirated voiced stops
ITRANS gh
jh
Dh
dh
bh
Dev.
IAST

ṅ Ṅ

ñ Ñ

ṇ Ṇ

n N

m M
nasal
ITRANS ~N
~n
N
n
m
Dev.
IAST

y Y

r R

l L

v V
semi-vowels
ITRANS
y
r
l
v or w
Dev.
IAST

ś Ś

ṣ Ṣ

s S
sibilants
ITRANS
sh
Sh
s

Dev.
IAST

h H
voiced fricative
ITRANS h





Note: Unlike ASCII-only romanizations such as ITRANS or Harvard-Kyoto, the diacritics used for IAST allow capitalization of proper names. The capital variants of letters never occurring word-initially (Ṇ Ṅ Ñ Ṝ) are only useful in Pāṇini contexts, where the convention is to typeset the IT sounds as capital letters (see Aṣṭādhyāyī).
Irregular Consonant Clusters

Devanāgarī IAST ITRANS
क्ष kṣ kS / kSh / x
त्र tr tr
ज्ञ GY / j~n
श्र śr shr

Other Consonants

Devanāgarī IAST ITRANS
क़ q q
ख़ k͟h Kh
ग़ ġ G
ज़ z z
फ़ f f
ड़ .D / R
ढ़ ṛh .Dh / Rh



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