Editing Devanagari transliteration (section)

{{Short description|Transliteration from Devanāgarī to the Latin alphabet}}
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[[Devanagari]] is an [[Indic script]] used for many [[Indo-Aryan languages]] of [[North India]] and [[Nepal]], including [[Hindi]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and [[Nepali language|Nepali]], which was the script used to write [[Classical Sanskrit]]. There are several somewhat similar methods of [[transliteration]] from Devanagari to the [[Latin alphabet|Roman script]] (a process sometimes called [[romanization|romanisation]]), including the influential and lossless [[IAST]] notation.<ref name="ref17yebif">{{Citation | title=Transliteration into Roman and Devanāgarī of the languages of the Indian group | author=Daya Nand Sharma | year=1972 | publisher=Survey of India, 1972 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HWJJAAAAYAAJ | quote=''... With the passage of time, there has emerged a practically uniform system of transliteration of Devanagari and allied alphabets. Nevertheless, no single system of Romanization has yet developed ...''}}<!--outdated source--></ref> Romanised Devanagari is also called '''Romanagari'''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=MHAISKAR |first=RAHUL |title=Romanagari an Alternative for Modern Media Writings |date=2015 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26264736 |journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute |volume=75 |pages=195–202 |jstor=26264736 |issn=0045-9801}}</ref>