The Kyoto-Harvard Convention is a system for transliterating the Sanskrit language in ASCII. It is predominantly used informally in e-mail, and for electronic texts.
The Devanagari alphabet is transliterated thus:
a A i I u U R RR lR lRR e ai o au M H
k kh g gh G c ch j jh J
T Th D Dh N t th d dh n
p ph b bh m y r l v z S s h
Symbols by sound-class
Vowels:
- simple vowels:
- a i u
- long vowels:
- A I U
- sonorants:
- R RR L
- diphtongs
- e ai o au
Consonants:
- semivowels:
- y r l v
- gutturals:
- k kh g gh G
- palatals:
- c ch j jh J
- cerebrals
- T Th D Dh N
- dentals
- t th d dh n
- labials
- p ph b bh m
- sibilants:
- z S s
- voiced spirant:
- h
- voiceless spirant (visarga)
- H
- nasalization (anusvara)
- M
- elision (avagraha)
- '
See also
