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Hindi to IAST and ISO 15919 Converter

Paste Hindi and get it in Roman letters by a fixed standard, IAST or ISO 15919, with every letter marked exactly.

How to use

  1. Paste the Hindi text you need in Roman letters.
  2. Pick IAST or ISO 15919 above the output.
  3. Press Copy. The accented letters paste correctly into Word and email.

Tip:Use ISO 15919 when the text will be converted back into Devanagari later.

Frequently asked questions

Can I get "bharat" instead of "bhārata"?
Not from this tool. Dropping the silent a and the accent marks is a guess about pronunciation, and this page only gives answers that are exact.
How are ज़, फ़ and ऑ written?
With the ISO 15919 letters, in both modes: ज़ is z, फ़ is f, क़ is q and ऑ is ô.
Is anything I type uploaded?
No. The tool runs in your browser and nothing you type leaves your computer.

Exact, letter by letter

IAST and ISO 15919 give each Devanagari letter one Roman spelling, with marks for what English letters cannot show: long vowels (ā ī ū), retroflex letters (ṭ ḍ ṇ ṣ) and the nasal marks. So the result can be read back into Hindi without guessing, which is why scholars, libraries and dictionaries use them.

Every a is written

Both standards write the vowel a after every consonant that carries one, so भारत is bhārata, not "bharat". Hindi drops some of those a sounds in speech, but which ones cannot be told from the spelling, so a tool that dropped them would be guessing. Here nothing is guessed.

IAST or ISO 15919?

They agree on most letters. ISO 15919 also marks the long ē and ō and writes ऋ as r̥, which keeps ड़ (ṛ) apart. IAST writes ऋ as ṛ, so in IAST mode this tool writes ड़ as r̤.