IAST | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-23

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration


00:00:45 1 Use
00:02:04 2 Inventory and conventions
00:03:03 3 Comparison with ISO 15919
00:03:42 4 Computer input by alternative keyboard layout
00:04:43 5 Computer input by selection from a screen
00:06:21 6 Font support



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SUMMARY
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The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanization of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages.  It is based on a scheme that emerged during the nineteenth century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan, William Jones, Monier Monier-Williams and other scholars, and formalised by the Transliteration Committee of the Geneva Oriental Congress, in September 1894.  IAST makes it possible for the reader to read the Indic text unambiguously, exactly as if it were in the original Indic script.  It is this faithfulness to the original scripts that accounts for its continuing popularity amongst scholars.