International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
GPTKB entity
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:abugida
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| gptkbp:abbreviation |
gptkb:IAST
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| gptkbp:firstPublished |
1894
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| gptkbp:hasDiacritics |
yes
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| gptkbp:hasFeature |
distinguishes long and short vowels
marks retroflex and dental consonants one-to-one mapping with Devanagari uses macrons and dots for diacritics |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration
|
| gptkbp:purpose |
accurate representation of Indic scripts
|
| gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:Harvard-Kyoto
gptkb:ISO_15919 gptkb:ITRANS gptkb:Devanagari_script |
| gptkbp:script |
gptkb:Latin_alphabet
|
| gptkbp:standardizedBy |
gptkb:International_Congress_of_Orientalists
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| gptkbp:usedBy |
academic publications
scholars of Indology |
| gptkbp:usedFor |
transliteration of Pali
transliteration of Prakrit transliteration of Sanskrit |
| gptkbp:usedIn |
academic journals
textbooks dictionaries |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:IAST
|
| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
6
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