The Kyoto-Harvard Convention is a system for transliterating the Sanskrit language in ASCII. It is predominantly used informally in e-mail, and for electronic texts.

The Devanagari alphabet is transliterated thus:

a A i I u U R RR lR lRR e ai o au M H
k kh g gh G c ch j jh J
T Th D Dh N t th d dh n
p ph b bh m y r l v z S s h

Symbols by sound-class

Vowels:

simple vowels:

a i u

long vowels:

A I U

sonorants:

R RR L

diphtongs

e ai o au

Consonants:

semivowels:

y r l v

gutturals:

k kh g gh G

palatals:

c ch j jh J

cerebrals

T Th D Dh N

dentals

t th d dh n

labials

p ph b bh m

sibilants:

z S s

voiced spirant:

h

voiceless spirant (visarga')

H

nasalization (anusvara)

M

elision (avagraha)

'

See also

• IAST
• ITRANS