Transcription of Sanskrit - SBSS.it
1 SanskritAlphabet with English Transliteration a i u e ai o au ~ a /a /an/a a kakhagagha aGuttural cachajajha aPalatal a ha a ha aCerebral ta tha da dha naDental paphababhamaLabial yaralava a asahak aj aSanskrit pronunciation GuideSanskrit s breadth of expression comes in part from using the entire mouth for pronunciation , and from elongating accented vowels. With an alphabet of 49 letters, it has several different versions of familiar sounds such as n and s , each issuing from a different part of the mouth.
2 For this reason, diacritical marks are generally used to indicate how and where a consonant or vowel should be like a in americaipronounced like i in literupronounced like u in dudeepronounced like e in greyai, aypronounced like ai in aisleopronounced like o in overaupronounced like ow in cow , , , , i, uprolonged for two beats instead of onek, kh, g, gh, gutturals, arising from the throatc, ch, j, jh, palatals, arising from the back of the palate , h, , h, cerebrals, with tongue touching the roof of the moutht, th, d, dh, ndentals, with tongue touching the back of the teethp, ph, b, bh, mlabials, arising from the lipscpalatal, always pronounced like ch in chop cerebral, pronounced like ri in rip palatal, pronounced like sh in shout cerebral, pronounced like sh in leash pronounced like ni in onion pronounced like n in unclej pronounced like gn in igneoush alonepronounced like h in hot a soft echo of the preceding vowelh after a consonantextra breath after the consonant (in Sanskrit there are no compound sounds like th in thief or ph in phone)
