Transliteration Scheme for Ambaal

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Om Om Om

 

Here is the ITRANS scheme, which most of us have already been using, and

which would be nice if everyone would stick to. This way it is very easy for

me to convert the postings into Webpages with Devanagari and Roman

Transcription.

 

 

ITRANS 5.1:

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Vowels:

 

a aa / A i ii / I u uu / U

R^i R^I L^i L^I

e ai o au aM aH

 

Consonants:

 

k kh g gh ~N

ch Ch j jh ~n

T Th D Dh N

t th d dh n

p ph b bh m

y r l v / w

sh Sh s h L

x / kSh / kS GY / j~n / dny

 

 

R (for marathi half-RA)

L (marathi LLA)

 

Consonants with a nukta (dot) under them (mainly for Urdu devanagari):

 

k with a dot: q

kh with a dot: K

g with a dot: G

j with a dot: z

p with a dot: f

D with a dot: .D

Dh with a dot: .Dh

ph with a dot f

 

Specials/Accents:

 

Anusvara: .n / M / .m (dot on top of previous consonant/vowel)

Avagraha: .a (apostrophe; `S' like symbol basically to replace a after o)

Ardhachandra: .c (for vowel sound as in english words `cat' or `talk')

Chandra-Bindu: .N (chandra-bindu on top of previous letter)

{\m+} chandra-bindu with virama

Halant: .h (to get half-form of the consonant - no vowel - virama)

Ra ligature: ^r (top curve as in ii to get r sound, half r)

(^r put after the intended consonant, e.g u{dhva}^r)

 

Visarga: H (visarga - looks like a colon character)

Om: OM, AUM (Om symbol)

Svaras: \` udaatta (upper svara) (`= 096; not apostrophe)

\`` double udaatta (double upper svara)

\_ anudaatta (lower svara)

 

Following older codes are also accepted:

 

kSh (= ksh)

~n (= JN)

~N (= N^)

dny (= GY)

^r (= .r)

Sh (= shh = Z = S)

Ch (= chh)

c (= ch)

 

To prevent the formation of ligatures you may insert {} between characters.

E.g. kla converts to the kla ligature k{}la converts to half ka + la.