The "Indian languages TRANSliteration" (ITRANS) is an ASCII transliteration scheme for Indic scripts, particularly, but not exclusively, for Devanagari (used for the Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, Sindhi and other languages). It was developed by Avinash Chopde.

It was in some use for the encoding of Indian etexts, it is wider in scope than the Harvard-Kyoto scheme for Devanagari transliteration, with which it coincides largely, but not entirely. With the wider implementation of Unicode, the traditional IAST is used increasingly also for electronic texts.

For some letters, there are variants: e.g. long vowels can be transcribed either by doubling the simple vowel, or with capitals.

Vowels (dependent and independent): a aa / A i ii / I u uu / U RRi / R^i RRI / R^I LLi / L^i LLI / L^I e ai o au aM aH

Consonants: k kh g gh ~N ch Ch j jh ~n T Th D Dh N t th d dh n p ph b bh m y r l v / w sh Sh s h L x / kSh GY / j~n / dny shr R (for marathi half-RA) L / ld (marathi LLA) Y (bengali)

Consonants with a nukta (dot) under them (mainly for Urdu devanagari): k with a dot: q kh with a dot: K g with a dot: G j with a dot: z / J p with a dot: f D with a dot: .D Dh with a dot: .Dh

Specials/Accents: Anusvara: .n / M / .m Avagraha (elision): .a Ardhachandra: .c Chandra-Bindu: .N Halant: .h Visarga: H Om (Om symbol): OM, AUM

See also

• IAST
• Harvard-Kyoto

External links

• ITRANS Official site
• site on ITRANS and religious content in ITRANS
• View Unicode Hindi through Roman transliteration (ITRNS scheme)
• Downloadable ITRANS to Unicode transformer A simple Java applet demo, with source code. Uses a simple table based extendable algorithm.

ITRANS | ITRANS scheme