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Harvard-kyoto




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.


VOWELS



SONORANTS



ANUSVāRA/VISARGA



CONSONANTS



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


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