ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 15919 First edition 2001-10-01 Information and documentation Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters Information et documentation Translitteration du Devanagari et des écritures indiennes liées en caracteres latins Reference number ISO 15919:2001(E) ISO @ ISO 2001 py IHS under lic ted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 15919:2001(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In downloading this area. Adobe is a trademarkof Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by ISO member bodies. In the unlikely event @ISO2001 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56. CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.ch Web www.iso.ch Printed in Switzerland @ISO2001-All rightsreserved edwithoutlicensefrom IHS Not for Resale ISO 15919:2001(E) Contents Page 1 Scope 2 Conformance. 3 Normative references . 4 Terms and definitions . 5 Abbreviated terms. 6 Characteristics of Indic scripts ... 7 Transliterationtables. 8 Special requirements and recommendations... .16 8.1 Special requirements ... 16 8.2 Recommendations....... 9 Options 18 10 Tables for uniform transliteration of Indic scripts .. 19 11 Transliteration scheme for limited character set, 12: Recommended transliteration of Indic schemes for Perso-Arabic characters..... 13 Additional Indic scripts. 19 14 Reverse transliteration.. .19 Annex A (normative) Tables for uniform transliteration. AnnexB(normative)Transliterationtableforlimited(7-bit)characterset.. Annex C (normative) Recommended transliteration of Indic schemes for Perso-Arabic characters .... ....25 Annex D (informative) Examples of Indic characters used for Perso-Arabic . .26 Annex E (informative) Additional Indic scripts . .27 Annex F (informative) Reverse transliteration of Indic scripts... ..28 F.1 Overview.... F.2 Examples of reverse transliteration in modern Indic languages. ..28 F.3 Reverse transliteration in Vedic texts 28 Bibliography... .29 ii Not for Resale