Template:IAST



Example


gives:
 * म

de:Vorlage:IAST lb:Template:IAST

What the IAST tag specifies
There are several different methods for romanizing the Devanagari writing system. IAST is the academic standard for transliteration. Use of the IAST tag clarifys which of the transliteration methods is being used. For example, the word for "self" in Devanagai is आत्मन् which is transliterated into English using IAST as {{IAST|ātman]] (with a diacritical mark ā to indicate the long आ). The Harvard-Kyoto method of transliteration would write "Atman" (with a capital A to indicate the long आ). The ITRANS method of transliteration would write either "Atman" (with a capital A) or "aatman" (with two lower-case a characters). By using the IAST tag the reader can determine which of these variant romanizations is being used.

Implementations of the IAST glyphs exist in both Unicode and ASCII forms. So the Unicode tag is not interchangeable with the IAST tag.