Conversion of text from one Indian script into another

[Vikram Gakhar]

Sometimes a piece of Sanskrit text is available in one Indian script and we want to read it in another script. If the text is in ASCII format then here's a low-tech method to convert it into another ASCII Indian script. The steps listed in the attached file are for conversion from Kannada to Devanagari, but should work in principle between any two Indian scripts.

If anyone knows of a better method, please share. I am sure it would be a no-brainer for software people to write a script.

b.r..

Vikram

[Anunad Singh]

It is much easier to convert from one Indian Script to another. There are already many such converters. Some links-

• Sanscript - भारतीय लिपियों तथा IAST आदि रोमन लिपियों का परस्पर परिवर्तन का आनलाइन औजार
• अक्षरमुख - ब्राह्मी लिपि से व्युत्पन्न सभी लिपियों सहित iTrans में परस्पर लिपि बदलने का आनलाइन औजार
• गिरगिट : किसी भारतीय लिपि के टेक्स्ट को दूसरी भारतीय लिपि में परिवर्तित करने का उपकरण
• गिरगिट का दूसरा रूप - यह किसी भारतीय लिपि में लिखे साइट को किसी अन्य भारतीय लिपि में बदलकर प्रदर्शित करता है।
• भारतीय लिपियों का लिप्यन्तरकारी (JNU)
• लिप्यंतरण : इसकी सहायता से किसी भारतीय भाषा (लिपि) मे लिखे साइट को किसी दूसरी भारतीय लिपि मे आनलाइन बदल कर पढ सकते है
• Online Interface to iTrans : convert iTrans into Devanagari and other Indian Scripts.
• ICU Transform Demo Convert among Latin, Devanagari, Other Indian and forein Scripts
• Diacritic Conversion - diCrunch v2.0.1
• Anusaaraka Anusaaraka is a computer software which renders text from one Indian language into another.
• हिन्दी से पंजाबी लिप्यन्तरण/अनुवाद (पंजाबी विश्वविद्यालय, पटियाला)
• हिन्दी-उर्दू ट्रान्सलिटरेशन (पंजाबी विश्वविद्यालय, पटियाला)

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• अक्षर-ब्रिज - A comprehensive open source Devanāgarī and Indic script conversion tool ; Akshara Bridge converts between several kinds of text that represent Devanāgarī, romanizations of Devanāgarī (DevLys, 10 Kruti Dev types, Krishna, Agra, iTrans, HK and many more ) , and other related scripts of India and southeast Asia (Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam etc).

• IAST and other Roman encodings to Devanagari converter_04  : इसमें 9 परिवर्तक हैं- IPA, ITRANS, ISCII, WX, Pinyin, Vietnamese, Turkish, IAST, Harvard-Kyoto ==> Devanagari

• Transliteration Tool For Windows - Supports Transliteration from Hindi to Urdu and Punjabi to Urdu.

• XlitHindi - an English to Hindi transliteration extension for OpenOffice Writer

[Anunad Singh]

Please find attached still another program for converting among most of Brahmi-derived scripts.

[ken p]

I prefer this kind of Standard Roman keyboard with built in transliteration scheme for general as well as for I-phone typing

Just type in one easy script and let the converter do the job.

This converter is missing two ( ऍ/अॅ,ऑ /कॅ कॉ ) sounds needed badly for Devanagari orthography and may need improvement.   

Input:key strokes

a aa i ii u uu a.e e ai a.w o au a.n a:

k kaa ki kii ku kuu k.e ke kai k.w ko kau k.n k:

Output:

अ आ इ ई उ ऊ अ.ए ए ऐ अ.व ओ औ अं अ:

क का कि की कु कू क.ए के कै क.व को कौ कं क:

a  ā   i   ī   u  ū   

ǎ

   e  ai  

ǒ   o

   au an/am ah.....Roman (Diacritics)  can be added along with other languages.

Transliteration:

અ આ ઇ ઈ ઉ ઊ અ.એ એ ઐ અ.વ ઓ ઔ અં અ:

ક કા કિ કી કુ કૂ ક.એ કે કૈ ક.વ કો કૌ કં ક:

അ ആ ഇ ഈ ഉ ഊ അ.ഏ ഏ ഐ അ.വ ഓ ഔ അം അ:

ക കാ കി കീ കു കൂ ക.ഏ കേ കൈ ക.വ കോ കൌ കം ക:

http://www.lyricsindia.net/xlate/convert

India needs two script formula instead of three languages formula. In internet age one can lean/read any basic language in his/her chosen script.  

http://readmylanguage.com/readmylanguage/install.php

[Vikram Gakhar]

Thank you everyone. I didn't know there were so many tools on the internet for transliteration.

b.r..
Vikram

[DR Y N RAO]

Dear All,

I have been following the discussions of different Members of this Group since a few days and finding the same highly interesting!  

Can anyone please guide me as to how to join this Group?

With best wishes,

--Dr. Y.N. RAO,
03/23/2016

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