National Library at Calcutta romanization

The National Library at Calcutta romanization is the most widely used in dictionaries and grammars of Indic languages. This transliteration scheme is also known as Library of Congress and is nearly identical to one of the possible ISO 15919 variants.The tables below mostly use Devanagari but include letters from Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali to illustrate the transliteration of non-Devanagari characters. The scheme is an extension of the IAST scheme that is used for transliteration of sanskrit.

अ	आ	इ	ई	उ	ऊ	ऋ	ಎ	ए	ऐ
a	ā	i	ī	u	ū	ṛ	e	ē	ai

ಒ	ओ	औ	अं	अः
o	ō	au	aṃ	aḥ

क	ख	ग	घ	ङ	च	छ	ज	झ	ञ
ka	kha	ga	gha	ṅa	ca	cha	ja	jha	ña

ट	ठ	ड	ढ	ण	त	थ	द	ध	न
ṭa	ṭha	ḍa	ḍha	ṇa	ta	tha	da	dha	na

प	फ	ब	भ	म	য	ழ	ಳ	റ	ன
pa	pha	ba	bha	ma	ẏa	la	ḷa	ra	na

य	र	ल	व	श	ष	स	ह
ya	ra	la	va	śa	ṣa	sa	ha

See also

• IAST
• Shiva Sutra

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