A follow up to my post on the Tamil writing system. Some people had asked what the Harvard-Kyoto system referenced in the original post was and so, a few words on Harvard-Kyoto.
Harvard-Kyoto is a transliteration scheme for Devanagari. I am making a conscious attempt to keep the learning curve for this system as short as possible, and so, in that spirit, a very brief summary of Harvard-Kyoto is given below.
a A i I u U R RR lR lRR e ai o au M H
k kh g gh G c ch j jh J
T Th D Dh N t th d dh n
p ph b bh m y r l v z S s h
Anybody who has learnt Hindi would know what I am referring to here. These are the basic Devanagari vowels and consonants written out in ASCII. You can also refer to the Wikipedia entry on Harvard-Kyoto which is available here. That is more or less all the introduction you need to understand Harvard-Kyoto.
