Re: Sanskrit romanization (was: Yellowblue (was Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?))

Javier BF wrote:


> [Trebor Jung]
> > On that page, the following list is given for the romanization system:
> > "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". What phonemes
> > do these letters and digraphs represent? Why are capital letters used
> > even if the lowercase letters are still available?
(Snip explanation, which seems correct)

 There must be some
> error or omission, because I only find one capital S, which is
> supposed to stand for an sh sound, but Sanskrit has two such
> sounds, a plain sh and a retroflex sh (commonly transcribed
> as s with tilde and s with dot below).
It appears they are using "z" for one of the s-sounds-- since they are
following Skt. order, it must be for the palatal s (you call it s-tilde, I
think s-acute or c-cedilla is also common), then their Cap. "S" must be the
retroflex (like T D N), and l.c. "s" must be the dental/alveolar.  (There is
no {z} in Devanagari)

Incidentally, when I click on the URL in the original msgs., my computer
freezes up.  Is there any good explanation for that?