Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:08:20PM +0100, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> At 15:56 15.1.2004, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> >r                       r` or r\
>
> Actually [r`] is a retroflex flap, which is
> one allophone of Hindi /d`/.  The /r/ is
> either a plain trill [r] or an approximant [r\].
>
> >á¹› (r . below)           r`= or r\=
> >ṝ (r . below macron)    r`:= or r\:=
>
> The syllabic r should actually have a ring
> rather than a dot below.  Unfortunately even
> Unicode hasn't got this straight.  An r with
> a dot below is the transliteration of that
> allophone of /d`/ I mentioned above.
That may be so in Hindi, but was it true in Sanskrit?  The
names I'm trying to pronounce correctly are Sanskrit, not
Hindi.

> I have uploaded a transliteration table for
> Devanagari to <http://www.melroch.se/devanagari.pdf>
> (unlinked), with both fancy and ASCII transliterations.
> The ASCII transliterations are as per
> <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stone-catend/tr7.htm>
> and is sort of official.
Cool, although it doesn't provide a phonetic key. :)

-Mark

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