Sanskrit Alphabet Practice



Guidelines ▼

  1. Click Full Screen button in the bottom-right corner to enter Fullscreen mode. The button will change to . To exit Fullscreen mode, click that button or press Esc.
  2. The page is divided into three sections:
    1. Lower Section — Selection Area
      • Hover over the Devanagari letters to see the Roman transliteration.
      • Select a single letter: Click on it.
      • Select multiple consecutive letters: Click and drag across them.
      • Select non-consecutive letters (doesn't work on cellphones): Hold Ctrl (or ⌘ on Mac) and click individual letters — each click toggles that letter in or out of your selection.
      • To hear your selected letters, click Play.
      • Clicking without Ctrl (or ⌘) clears the previous selection.
    2. Middle Section — Control Area
      • Roman — Show or hide the Roman transliteration.
      • Sound — Turn audio pronunciation on or off.
      • Articulation — Show or hide the articulation point.
      • Delay (sec) — Set the pause between letter pronunciations.
      • Letter Repetition — Number of times each letter repeats.
      • Selection Repetition — Number of times the full selection repeats.
    3. Upper Section — Display Area
      • Shows the selected Devanagari letter (center).
      • Displays its Roman transliteration (left).
      • Indicates the point of articulation (right).
  3. Enjoy!
Sanskrit Alphabet
STOP
PLAY
a
ROMAN
अ
SOUND
Articulation Point

Guttural

ARTICULATION
Delay (sec)
Letter Repetition
Selection Repetition
अ
आ
इ
ई
उ
ऊ
ऋ
ॠ
ऌ
ए
ऐ
ओ
औ
svāra
अं
anusvāra
अः
visarga
क
ख
ग
घ
ङ
guttural (kaṇṭhya)
च
छ
ज
झ
ञ
palatal (tālavya)
ट
ठ
ड
ढ
ण
cerebral (mūrdhanya)
त
थ
द
ध
न
dental (dantya)
प
फ
ब
भ
म
labial (oṣṭhya)
sparsha
य
र
ल
व
antahstha
श
ष
स
ह
ūshman