The Sanskrit Alphabet

The script of the Sanskrit language is called Devanagari. In the tables below you see the Devanagari glyphs of the Sanskrit alphabet with their respective IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration) equivalents.

Fast Recitation of the Sankskrit Alphabet:

Vowels (svara)

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अ	आ	इ	ई	उ	ऊ	ऋ	ॠ	ऌ
a	ā	i	ī	u	ū	ṛ	ṝ	ḷ
simple Vowels (a–ḷ)

ए	ऐ	ओ	औ	अं	अः
e	ai	o	au	aṃ	aḥ
diphtongs (e–au)				anusvāra, visarga

In the first line of the table above you see the Devanagari signs for the vowels. The dotted circles represent the consonants. Examples are: अमृत (amṛta), राम (Rāma), शिव (Śiva), केशव (Keśava), गोपिनाथ (Gopinātha), गौतम (Gautama)

Consonants (vyañjana)

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क	ख	ग	घ	ङ
ka	kha	ga	gha	ṅa
Gutturale

च	छ	ज	झ	ञ
ca	cha	ja	jha	ña
Palatals

ट	ठ	ड	ढ	ण
ṭa	ṭha	ḍa	ḍha	ṇa
Cerebrals

त	थ	द	ध	न
ta	tha	da	dha	na
Dentale

प	फ	ब	भ	म
pa	pha	ba	bha	ma
Labials

य	र	ल	व
ya	ra	la	va
Semi Vowels

श	ष	स	ह
śa	ṣa	sa	ha
Sibilants

Numbers 0–10

०	१	२	३	४	५	६	७	८	९	१०
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Click to hear the numbers 0–10

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There are lots of interesting web sites about Sanskrit alphabet, Devanagari transliteration, typing Sanskrit, learning sanskrit. Here are links to some of them and to the world's most comprehensive Sanskrit online dictionary:

-- https://www.sanskritdictionary.com/

-- https://learnsanskrit.org/

-- https://www.anirdesh.com/gujarati/hindi-unicode.php

-- https://wiki2.org/en/ITRANS

-- https://www.webmaster-seo.com/de/unicode/coding?range=221

-- https://jrgraphix.net/r/Unicode/0900-097F