How to read and use phonetics

Phonetic Transliteration is a method of using English alphabet for writing in non-English languages. Below is a mapping table for Marathi, Hindi and Gujarati script characters (vowels, consonants) respectively to corresponding English alphabets, followed by some illustrative examples. To make it easy to remember, the corresponding English alphabets are as close as possible to how the script characters are pronounced.

Vowels

Consonants

Other Characters

Sample Words