FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a transliteration method and more specifically to a method and system for transliteration in Indian languages using Latin alphabets.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Many people in India are multilingual. About 400 million people speak Hindi and English or Urdu. Over 200 million people speak Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, English, or another regional language. Many have only a spoken/hearing understanding of even more languages. India has eighteen official languages-the total number of languages spoken is unknown-and the languages have numerous dialects. For example, Tamil alone has over 128 dialects. Languages vary from state to state and the scripts used by the languages are completely different.
The ability to speak and understand a locally used language is important for living and/or working in India. In addition, Indian languages are spoken by groups of people all over the world. People long to be able to communicate with others in their native language, some of whom may be half way around the world for business or personal reasons.
A problem arises when a person has knowledge of some Indian languages, but does not know the script that is used to represent this language. A person may understand a spoken Indian language, but may not be able to read documents written in the language.
Therefore, it would be advantageous to provide a mechanism for presenting a transliteration of a selected word, phrase, or document in a target language or script.
Existing prior art suggests that the earlier scheme of the transliteration uses inbuilt dictionary and searches a sense of what the user want to type in Hindi. The software used are assumption based software with constantly evolving transliteration vocabulary. Moreover, prior transliterations methods had been constructed in such a way that their implementation has proved to be either intuitive but so ambiguous that it is never exact, or exact but not so intuitive to use it practically.
Therefore, there is a need of a method and system of transliteration that is intuitive, practical, unambiguous and exact.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The principal object of the present invention is to provide a transliteration method.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a system and method' for representing Indian languages using Standard English keyboard to combine Latin alphabet and special characters for denoting all and exact sounds of Hindi phonemes the same way as Devnagri letters are pronounced.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a bidirectional, accurate & loss-error proof transliteration.
An additional object of the present invention is to provide a transliteration method wherein phonetic sounds remain intact.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a method for transliteration applicable to letter, word, sentence and text.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a novel transliteration method that makes it possible to directly read the text of Hindi, transliterated into PHS using Latin alphabets, so effortlessly as if the reader was reading the Hindi text itself.
To achieve the desired objective, one embodiment of the present disclosure describes a method for
transliteration in Indian languages using Latin alphabets, the method comprising:
providing at least one text in latin alphabets in a first text area;
applying PHS rule to said text for transliterating said Latin alphabet into Indian language; and
displaying transliterated text in a second text area,
wherein said PHS rule comprises:
a. PHS consonants not followed by vowels are followed by "D" sound;
b. "D" sound is denoted by letter "X";
c. "A" and "AA" placed in the beginning of a word denote "D" and "□"
respectively, whereas everywhere in the body of a word except in its
beginning "A" denote "□";

I/We Claim:
1. A method for transliteration in Indian languages using Latin alphabets, the method
comprising:
providing at least one text in latin alphabets in a first text area;
applying PHS rule to said text for transliterating said Latin alphabet into Indian language; and
displaying transliterated text in a second text area,
wherein said PHS rule comprises:
a. PHS consonants not followed by vowels are followed by sound;.
b. sound is denoted by letter "X";
c. and placed in the beginning of a word denote and respectively, whereas
everywhere in the body of a word except in its beginning denote ;
d. PHS representation denote "Akshar" vowel at the beginning of a word and "Matra" vowel
inside a word, whereas the "Akshar" vowel appears anywhere inside the word except at its
beginning follows by the Hard symbol and
e. is used as a special case.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said vowels are of two types- "Akshar" and "Matra".
3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said PHS rule comprises two vowels placed together anywhere in the body of word except at the beginning, the first vowel is Matra vowel and the second vowel an Akshar vowel, said second vowel may not use the Hard Symbol accompanying the "Akshar" vowel.
4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said PHS rule for half "Akshar" consonanant includes soft symbol' after each full letter to make it a half letter.
5. A system for transliteration in Indian languages using Latin alphabets, said system comprises an input means for providing at least one text in latin alphabets in a first text area;
a processing unit for applying PHS rule to said text for transliterating said Latin alphabet into Indian language; and
an output means for displaying transliterated text in a second text area, wherein said PHS rule comprises:
a. PHS consonants not followed by vowels are followed by sound;
b. sound is denoted by letter "X";
c. and placed in the beginning of a word denote and respectively, whereas
everywhere in the body of a word except in its beginning denote ;
d. PHS representation denote "Akshar" vowel at the beginning of a word and "Matra" vowel
inside a word, whereas the "Akshar" vowel appears anywhere inside the word except at its
beginning follows by the Hard symbol and
e. is used as a special case.
6. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein said vowels are of two types- "Akshar" and "Matra".
7. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein said PHS rule comprises two vowels placed together anywhere in the body of word except beginning, the first vowel is Matra vowel and the second vowel an Akshar vowel, said second vowel may not use the Hard Symbol accompanying the "Akshar" vowel.
8. The system as claimed in claim 5, wherein said PHS rule for half "Akshar" consonanant includes soft symbol' after each full letter to make it a half letter.