Velthuis
The Velthuis system of transliteration is an ASCII transliteration scheme for the Sanskrit language from and to the Devanagari script. It was developed by Frans Velthuis, a scholar living in Groningen, The Netherlands, who created a popular, high-quality software package in Latex for typesetting Devanāgarī. It is based on using the ISO 646 repertoire to represent mnemonically the accents used in standard scholarly transliteration.[1]
See Devanagari transliteration for more information on this and other such transliteration schemes.
The scheme is also used for the transliteration of other Indic scripts and languages such as Bengali[2] and Pali.[3][4] Moreover, it is also used to transliterate the Roman characters with diacritics used to transliterate Indic scripts in contexts (such as emails) wherein the fonts with these characters cannot be used.[5]
Transliteration scheme[6][7][8]
Vowels
| Devanagari | Roman with diacritics | Velthuis |
|---|---|---|
| अ | a | a |
| आ | ā | aa |
| इ | i | i |
| ई | ī | ii |
| उ | u | u |
| ऊ | ū | uu |
| ए | e | e |
| ऐ | ai | ai |
| ओ | o | o |
| औ | au | au |
| ऋ | ṛ | .r |
| ॠ | ṝ | .rr |
| ऌ | ḷ | .l |
| ॡ | ḹ | .ll |
| अं(added as anusvāra) | ṃ | .m |
| अः | ḥ | .h |
| अँ(chandrabindu) | / | |
| ्(virāma/halant) | & | |
| ऽ(avagraha:elision during sandhi) | .a | |
| Om | O |
Consonants (in combination with inherent vowel a)
| Devanagari | Roman with diacritics | Velthuis |
|---|---|---|
| क | ka | ka |
| ख | kha | kha |
| ग | ga | ga |
| घ | gha | gha |
| ङ | ṅa | "na |
| च | ca | ca |
| छ | cha | cha |
| ज | ja | ja |
| झ | jha | jha |
| ञ | ña | ~na |
| ट | ṭa | .ta |
| ठ | ṭha | .tha |
| ड | ḍa | .da |
| ढ | ḍha | .dha |
| ण | ṇa | .na |
| त | ta | ta |
| थ | tha | tha |
| द | da | da |
| ध | dha | dha |
| न | na | na |
| प | pa | pa |
| फ | pha | pha |
| ब | ba | ba |
| भ | bha | bha |
| म | ma | ma |
| य | ya | ya |
| र | ra | ra |
| ल | la | la |
| व | va | va |
| श | śa | "sa |
| ष | ṣa | .sa |
| स | sa | sa |
| ह | ha | ha |
Irregular Consonant Clusters
| Devanagari | Roman with diacritics | Velthuis |
|---|---|---|
| क्ष | kṣa | k.sa |
| त्र | tra | tra |
| ज्ञ | jña | j~na |
| श्र | śra | "sra |
See also
External links
- Sanskrit transliteration--convert from one scheme to another.Maintained by Indian Language Technology Proliferation and Deployment Centre(ILTP-DC)
- Online Transliterator at Shreevatsa
References
- ↑ Wujastyk, Dominic. "Transliteration of Devanagari". Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- ↑ Typesetting Bengali in Ω using Velthuis Transliteration or Unicode Text by Lakshmi K. Raut, 2006, accessed 17.9.2016.
- ↑ Method 3. The Velthuis scheme: double the vowels, punctuate the consonants, on Access to Insight, accessed 17.9.2016.
- ↑ Alphabet with diacritics in Wikipedia article Pali, accessed 17.9.2016
- ↑ Method 3. The Velthuis scheme: double the vowels, punctuate the consonants, on Access to Insight, accessed 17.9.2016.
- ↑ "Alphabet in Sanskrit". Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- ↑ "Official Velthuis Package Sanskrit map". Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- ↑ "Comparison of Input Methods".