ISO 15919 (Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters ) is an international standard for the romanization of Brahmic and Nastaliq scripts. Published in 2001, it is part of a series of international standards by the International Organization for Standardization .
6-657: North Zone Cultural Centre or NZCC ( ISO : Uttara Kṣētra Sāṁskr̥tika Kēṁdra ) in Patiala in Punjab state was first among several regional cultural centres established by Government of India to preserve and promote arts, crafts, traditions and cultural heritage of the Indian states of Punjab , Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand , Haryana , Rajasthan , as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir , Ladakh and Chandigarh . Establishment of North Zone Culture Centre
12-697: Is an international standard on the romanization of many Brahmic scripts , which was agreed upon in 2001 by a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries. However, the Hunterian transliteration system is the "national system of romanization in India " and a United Nations expert group noted about ISO 15919 that "there is no evidence of the use of the system either in India or in international cartographic products." Another standard, United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names (UNRSGN),
18-401: The transliteration of Sanskrit rather than the transcription of Brahmic scripts. As a notable difference, both international standards, ISO 15919 and UNRSGN transliterate anusvara as ṁ , while ALA-LC and IAST use ṃ for it. However, ISO 15919 provides guidance towards disambiguating between various anusvara situations (such as labial versus dental nasalizations), which is described in
24-643: The table below. The table below shows the differences between ISO 15919, UNRSGN and IAST for Devanagari transliteration. Only certain fonts support all Latin Unicode characters for the transliteration of Indic scripts according to this standard. For example, Tahoma supports almost all the characters needed. Arial and Times New Roman font packages that come with Microsoft Office 2007 and later also support most Latin Extended Additional characters like ḍ, ḥ, ḷ, ḻ, ṁ, ṅ, ṇ, ṛ, ṣ and ṭ. There
30-481: Was announced by then Prime Minister of India , Rajiv Gandhi during his visit to Hussainiwala , Punjab on 23 March 1985. The North Cultural Zone is one of seven Cultural Zones of India defined and provided with administrative infrastructure by the Government of India. 30°20′0″N 76°23′38″E / 30.33333°N 76.39389°E / 30.33333; 76.39389 ISO 15919 ISO 15919
36-666: Was developed by the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) and covers many Brahmic scripts. The ALA-LC romanization was approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association and is a US standard. The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is not a standard (as no specification exists for it) but a convention developed in Europe for
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