Wylie for Sanskrit Flashcards
Extended Wylie transliteration system for transcribing Sanskrit written in Uchen transliteration to the Roman alphabet in a way that allows the text to be re-encoded to Uchen
Wylie for (Brainscape doesn’t display them correctly in a row)
implicit “a”
ི
ུ
ེ
ོ
a i u e o
(same as for Tibetan)
ྲྀ
r-i
(Vocalic R; IAST ṛ; Nāgari ऋ)
ླྀ
l-i (lower case L + i)
(Vocalic L; IAST ḷ; Nāgari ऌ)
ྲཱྀ
r-I (r + capital i)
(Long Vocalic R; IAST ṝ; Nāgari ॠ)
ླཱྀ
l-I (lowercase L + upper case i)
(Long Vocalic L; IAST ḹ ; Nāgari ॡ)
[Never actually occurs in Sanskrit]
ཱ
A
(capital a; IAST ā; Nāgari आ)
ཱི
I
(capital i; IAST ī; Nāgari ई)
ཱུ
U
(capital u; IAST ū; Nāgari ऊ)
ེེ
ai
(IAST ai; Nāgari ऐ)
ོོ
au
(IAST au; Nāgari औ)
གྷ
g+ha
(IAST gha; Nāgari घ)
ཛྷ
dz+ha
(IAST jha; Nāgari झ)
དྷ
d+ha
(IAST dha; Nāgari ध)
ཌྷ
D+ha
(IAST ḍha; Nāgari ढ)
བྷ
b+ha
(IAST bha; Nāgari भ)
ཊ
Ta
(IAST ṭa; Nāgari ट)
ཋ
Tha
(IAST ṭha; Nāgari ठ)
ཌ
Da
(IAST ḍa; Nāgari ड)
ཎ
Na
(IAST ṇa; Nāgari ण)
ཥ
Sha
(IAST ṣa; Nāgari ष)
ཀཥ
k+Sha
(IAST kṣa; Nāgari क्ष)
ར
Example ཪྣ
R+
Example: ཪྣ་ becomes R+na. ཪྻ་ becomes R+Ya, while ཪྱ་ becomes R+ya.
Rule 13 of the Extended Wylie Transliteration Scheme: “Capital R is used to indicate the full-form of ra when it is the top letter of a non-standard Tibetan stack.”
ྺ
+W
No real life example found. Rule 15 of the extended wylie definition: “Capital W, Y, and R are used to transliterate the full form of wa, ya, and ra respectively, when they are in any position except the top-most.”
ྻ
+Y
No real life example found. Rule 15 of the extended wylie definition: “Capital W, Y, and R are used to transliterate the full form of wa, ya, and ra respectively, when they are in any position except the top-most.”
