Wiktionary:Nepali transliteration

Wiktionary's system for the transliteration of Devanagari for Nepali uses the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) system with a few modications. The changes from the IAST standard are meant for convenience.

Nasalization
The nasal diacritic (अनुस्वार, anusvāra) is transliterated according to its context in a word. The consonant immediately following the nasal diacritic determines exactly how the transliteration will occur.


 * If a word ends with the anusvāra, ṃ is added to the end, e.g. तपाईं = tapāīṃ
 * If a consonant follows the anusvāra, the transliteration of the consonant's corresponding nasal consonant follows.
 * 1) Velars  (क, ख, ग, घ), glottal (ह), and alveolars (श) will use ṅ (for ङ)
 * 2) Alveolars (च, छ, ज, झ) will use ñ (for ञ)
 * 3) Dentals (त, थ, द, ध) and alveolars (न ष स) will use n (for न)
 * 4) Retroflex consonants (ट, ठ, ड, ढ) will use ṇ (for ण)
 * 5) Labials (प, फ, ब, भ, म, व), palatal (य), and alveolar (र, ल) will use m (for म)

The nasal diacritic (चन्द्रबिन्दु, candrabindu) is transliterated as a tilde diacritic (̃) above the nasalized vowel.

Other

 * The character ज्ञ, which is a ligature of ज and ञ, while typically transliterated "jñ" in Sanskrit is transliterated "gy" for Nepali.


 * Halanta symbol ् is used for deletion of default vowel a.
 * Visarga symbol ः is transliterated as "ḥ" as in स्वतः (svataḥ) and अतः (ataḥ).


 * Nuqtas