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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.
[edit] Vowels
| अ |
आ |
इ |
ई |
उ |
ऊ |
ए |
ऐ |
ओ |
औ |
| a |
A |
i |
I |
u |
U |
e |
ai |
o |
au |
[edit] Sonorants
[edit] Anusvāra/Visarga
[edit] Consonants
[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
