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 .
6-623: Worli ( ISO : Varaḷī , [ʋəɾ(ə)ɭiː] ) is a locality in central Mumbai in Maharashtra , India . It is one of the four peninsulas of Mumbai with the others being Colaba , Bandra and Malabar Hill . The sea connects it with Bandra via the Bandra-Worli Sea Link . Historic spellings include Warli, Worlee, Varli, and Varel. Originally Worli was a separate island, one of the Seven Islands of Bombay which were ceded by
12-659: Is described in 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
18-633: 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), was developed by the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) and covers many Brahmic scripts. The ALA-LC romanization
24-523: The Portuguese to England in 1661; it was linked up with the other islands in the 19th century. In the 1990s, a group of terrorists attacked a building in Worli as well as major buildings in the city. Worli Seaface is a waterfront in Worli on Arabian Sea. It lies along Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Road. In October 2019, Aaditya Thackeray contested the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election from
30-571: The Worli constituency and he is currently the MLA of Worli . Famous Indian celebrities as well as celebrity couples reside in the Worli area of Mumbai: ISO 15919 ISO 15919 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
36-834: 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 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
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