Editing Devanagari transliteration (section)

===Aspirated consonants===
Where the letter "h" appears after a [[plosive consonant]] in Devanāgarī transliteration, it always indicates [[aspiration (phonetics)|aspiration]]. Thus "ph" is pronounced as the ''p'' in "pit" (with a small puff of air released as it is said), never as the ''ph'' in "photo" ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] /f/). (On the other hand, "p" is pronounced as the ''p'' in "spit" with no release of air.) Similarly "th" is an aspirated "t", neither the ''th'' of "this" (voiced, IPA /ð/) nor the ''th'' of "thin" (unvoiced, IPA /θ/).

The aspiration is generally indicated in both formal and informal transliteration systems.