Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Other transliteration schemes

Three other transliteration schemes are the ITRANS scheme, IAST and Velthuis. Here is what the Devanagari vowels look like in these above schemes (table courtesy Wikipedia).

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Vowels

DevanāgarīIASTHarvard-KyotoITRANSVelthuis
aaaa
āAA/aaaa
iiii
īII/iiii
uuuu
ūUU/uuuu
eeee
aiaiaiai
oooo
auauauau
RRRi/R^i.r
RRRRI/R^I.rr
lRLLi/L^i.l
lRRLLI/L^I.ll
अंMM/.n/.m.m
अःHH.h
अँ.N