Harvard-Kyoto

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The Harvard-Kyoto Convention is a system for transliterating in ASCII the Sanskrit language and other languages that use the Devanāgarī script. It is predominantly used informally in e-mail, and for electronic texts.

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[edit] Vowels

अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ए ऐ ओ औ
a A i I u U e ai o au

[edit] Sonorants

ऋ ॠ ऌ ॡ
R RR lR lRR

[edit] Anusvāra/Visarga

अं अः
M H

[edit] Consonants

क ख ग घ ङ Velar
k kh g gh G
च छ ज झ ञ Palatal
c ch j jh J
ट ठ ड ढ ण Retroflex
T Th D Dh N
त थ द ध न Dental
t th d dh n
प फ ब भ म Labial
p ph b bh m
य र ल व Semi-vowel
y r l v
श ष स ह Fricative
z S s h

[edit] Velthuis

The disadvantage of some ASCII schemes is case-sensitivity, implying that transliterated names may not be capitalized, although this difficulty is avoided with the system developed in 1996 by Frans Velthuis in which case it is irrelevant.

a aa i ii u uu .r .rr .l .ll
e ai o au
.m  .h
k kh g gh "n
c ch j jh ~n
.t .th .d .dh .n
t th d dh n
p ph b bh m
y r l v
"s .s s h

[edit] See also

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