Wiktionary:Marathi transliteration

Marathi is transliterated using a modified system on Wiktionary, that takes into account schwa-dropping in spoken Marathi. Module:mr-translit automatically implements the system on this page.

Anusvara
The nasal diacritic (अनुस्वार, anusvar) is "transliterated" according to its context in a word. Basically, the consonant (or lack thereof) immediately following the nasal vowel determines exactly how the transliteration will occur.


 * If a consonant follows the nasalised vowel, the transliteration of the consonant's corresponding nasal consonant follows.
 * Gutturals (क, ख, ग, घ, ह) will use ṅ (for ङ)
 * Dentals (त, थ, द, ध, ल, स) will use n (for न)
 * Labials (प, फ, ब, भ, व) will use m (for म), etc.

Other
The conjunct ज्ञ, which is a combination of ज and ञ and transliterated as ⟨jñ⟩, while pronounced /ɟɲ/ in Sanskrit is often pronounced /d͡ʑn/ in Marathi.

Visarga symbol ः is transliterated as ⟨ḥ⟩, e.g..