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The Harvard-Kyoto Convention is a system for transliterating

Transliteration

Transliteration is a subset of the science of hermeneutics. It is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another...

in ASCII

ASCII

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...

the Sanskrit language and other languages that use the Devanāgarī

Devanagari

Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

script. It is predominantly used informally in e-mail, and for electronic texts.

Vowels

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

Consonants

क	ख	ग	घ	ङ	Velar Velar consonant Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum)....
k	kh	g	gh	G
च	छ	ज	झ	ञ	Palatal Palatal consonant Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate...
c	ch	j	jh	J
ट	ठ	ड	ढ	ण	Retroflex Retroflex consonant A retroflex consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate. They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consonants, especially in Indology...
T	Th	D	Dh	N
त	थ	द	ध	न	Dental
t	th	d	dh	n
प	फ	ब	भ	म	Labial Labial consonant Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator. This precludes linguolabials, in which the tip of the tongue reaches for the posterior side of the upper lip and which are considered coronals...
p	ph	b	bh	m
य	र	ल	व		Semi-vowel Semivowel In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel is a sound, such as English or , that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.-Classification:...
y	r	l	v
श	ष	स	ह		Fricative Fricative consonant Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate, in the case of German , the final consonant of Bach; or...
z	S	s	h

Vowels

Consonants

See also