National Library at Kolkata romanisation

The National Library at Kolkata romanisation[1] is a widely used transliteration scheme in dictionaries and grammars of Indic languages.

The table below mostly uses Devanagari but it also includes letters from Bengali (purple) and Tamil (green) to illustrate the transliteration of non-Devanagari characters.

Equivalent tools – such as gucharmap (GNOME) or kcharselect (KDE) – exist on most Linux desktop environments.

Only certain fonts support all Latin Unicode characters for the transliteration of Indic scripts according to the ISO 15919 standard.

Arial and Times New Roman font packages that come with Microsoft Office 2007 and later also support most Latin Extended Additional characters like ḍ, ḥ, ḷ, ḻ, ṁ, ṅ, ṇ, ṛ, ṣ and ṭ.