Transliteration Pages

Thinking aloud about transliteration - especially for Indic scripts. Some of the material is tentative. A new International Standard for the transliteration of Indic scripts has been developed under the ISO [International Organization for Standardization].

• Transliteration of Indic scripts: How to use ISO 15919. With further information, including the relation to Unicode. (Last UPDATED 15 March, 2012)
  
  
• Indic Additional. A TTF font of old or rare Indic characters. This font may be freely used.
  
  
• A tentative solution to Indic transliteration at the Perso-Arabic/Indic interface
  
  
• Draft transliterations for Thaana: PDF format ... Updated June 26, 2000
  Thanks are due to Bruce Cain for assistance with this draft.
  
  
• Variant forms of Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya: PDF format ... Updated Apr 28, 2000
  
  
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