Devanagari transliteration

Devanagari transliteration is a way of writing the sounds of Indian languages, like Hindi or Sanskrit, using the letters of the English alphabet. It helps people who don't know the Indian script or who have trouble reading it to understand and pronounce words correctly.

Think of it like this - imagine if you had a secret code that you and your friends used to communicate, but your teacher couldn't read it. So, you decide to write out the coded message sounds using letters that your teacher can understand. That's kind of what Devanagari transliteration does! It takes the sounds of Indian languages and puts them into letters that people who don't speak those languages can read and understand.

For example, let's say you want to write the Hindi word for "hello" in English letters. In Hindi, the word is written as "नमस्ते" - which looks very different from English, right?

Using Devanagari transliteration, you would write it out like this: "namaste" - which is much easier to read and understand, especially if you've never seen the Hindi script before.

Devanagari transliteration isn't perfect - sometimes it's hard to represent certain sounds or letters using English letters, and sometimes the same English letter can represent different sounds in different contexts. But overall, it's a really helpful tool for people who don't already know Indian scripts, and it makes it easier to learn and communicate in Indian languages.