vtranslit

A transliterator between ITRANS and any Indic Script.

Currently supports transliteration from ITRANS (Itrn) to:

• Devanagari (Deva)
• Kannada (Knda)
• Tamil (Taml)
• Telugu (Telu)

It also supports transliteration from the above mentioned schemes to ITRANS.

This package is a library and is useful only for developers.

However, users can avail vTranslit's cli or web app.

Installation

> npm install vtranslit

Node usage

const { vTranslit } = require('vtranslit');
 
// install necessary schemes from npm (links given above)
const { vTranslitSchemeDeva } = require('vtranslit-scheme-deva');
const { vTranslitSchemeItrn } = require('vtranslit-scheme-itrn');
 
// add schemes to vTranslit
const vtranslit = vTranslit(
  [
    vTranslitSchemeDeva,
    vTranslitSchemeItrn
  ]
);
 
// from ITRANS scheme to Devanagari scheme
const vtItrnToDeva = vtranslit.init('Itrn', 'Deva');
 
console.log(vtItrnToDeva('<stringToTransliterate>');
 
// from Devanagari scheme to ITRANS scheme
const vtDevaToItrn = vtranslit.init('Deva', 'Itrn');
 
console.log(vtDevaToItrn('<stringToTransliterate>');

The codes for scheme are based on the ISO 15924 (Codes for the representation of names of scripts), expect ITRANS which is given a similar code in accordance with the standards definition.