Character Transliteration in Linux

Character transliteration is an important process widely used in the study of languages, communication, and text processing. It ranges from simple dialogue to linguistic preservation and digitization. While it has many benefits, such as linguistic flexibility and multilingual communication, it also has some drawbacks, like the loss of pronunciation and lack of standardization.

Character transliteration means converting the letters (script) of one language into the letters of another language, presenting it in the second language while preserving the sound and pronunciation of the original language. This technique is especially useful when a person does not know the script of a language but can understand its sound. For example, the Hindi word "नमस्ते" can be written in Roman letters as "namaste," which is an example of transliteration.

(i) Standard Transliteration: This aims to convert the letters of a language into another language's script based on their sound. For example, "भारत" is written as "Bharat."