Back IAST Afrikaans الألفبائية الدولية للترجمة السنسكريتية Arabic Sanskrit dilinin transliterasiyasının beynəlxalq əlifbası Azerbaijani Международна азбука за транслитерация на санскрит Bulgarian সংস্কৃত লিপ্যন্তরের আন্তর্জাতিক বর্ণমালা Bengali/Bangla རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ལེགས་སྦྱར་སྒྲ་སྒྱུར། Tibetan Lizherenneg etrebroadel evit treuzskrivañ ar sañskriteg Breton IAST Catalan Gwyddor Ryngwladol Trawslythrennu Sansgrit Welsh IAST Danish
| International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration IAST | |
|---|---|
| Script type | romanisation |
Time period | 19th century–present |
| Languages | Sanskrit and other Indic Languages |
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that emerged during the 19th century from suggestions by Charles Trevelyan, William Jones, Monier Monier-Williams and other scholars, and formalised by the Transliteration Committee of the Geneva Oriental Congress, in September 1894.[1][2] IAST makes it possible for the reader to read the Indic text unambiguously, exactly as if it were in the original Indic script. It is this faithfulness to the original scripts that accounts for its continuing popularity amongst scholars.
- ^ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (PDF). Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. xxx.
- ^ "Tenth International Congress of Orientalists, Held at Geneva". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland: 879–892. 1895. JSTOR 25207765.