User:Cm3866

Me
I am a college student of Religion, primarily Hinduism.

Goals
I plan to establish and implement a standard for transliteration and introduction of Sanskrit terminology in Hinduism articles. Possibly expand this to Pāli and Buddhist terminology as time allows.

Problems
There are currently two pages upon which naming schemes can be found for Indic languages - while other languages using non-latin scripts have manuals of style dedicated to transliteration (such as Arabic), there is no such system for Sanskrit or Hindi, much less for other less widespread Indic languages.

Wikipedia Standard
This standard has thus far been used only occasionally - it is the one I hope to improve and expand, as well as eventually implement to all relevant articles.


 * Indic naming conventions

 Use this when you have the original script text, transliteration and IPA but do not have the audio pronunciation. This is likely to be the most used format.




 * Example:


 * Mumbai is a...
 * Mumbai is a...

Resources from other Wikipedians
Buddhipriya had a similar goal, but now seems to be inactive. Here are some of his contributions that I plan to expand upon.
 * IAST usage on article pages
 * Transliteration template


 * IAST Transliteration scheme for Pāli, Sanskrit, Hanyu Pinyin (thanks to Tengu800)