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A Hindi transliteration/transcription

I'm looking for the transliteration/transcription of the phrase "विकिपरियोजना वीडियो गेम्स". I know what it means so a translation is unnecessary, but how would I transliterate/transcribe the word? Maybe "VikiPariyojana vidiyo gemsa"? -Thibbs (talk) 01:50, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Google Translate, which provides also translitterations, gives: "vikipariyojana veediyo gems". --79.36.50.78 (talk) 06:43, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Wiktionary transliterates परियोजना as "pariyojnā" and वीडियो as "vīḍiyo". Etymologically (Sanskrit), "yojanā" is appropriate, but (according to Wiktionary) the pronunciation in Delhi Hindi has two syllables: /joːd͡ʒ.nɑː/ In analogy with the orthography of "WikiProject Video games", I guess the camel case of "VikiPariyoj(a)na Vidiyo gems" is appropriate.  --Lambiam 11:09, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for both of you! -Thibbs (talk) 11:53, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

@Thibbs: for academic audiences specific transliteration system from Devanagari transliteration will be okay. But it seems that you are likely to use transliteration for general audience in a wiki news letter. Unless you have a specific purpose to show transliteration system, then my pragmatic suggestion is retain 'W' in "WikiPariyoj(a)na", Video and 'games'. In 'Video' while pronouncing and writing in Devnagari 'O' will be pronounced as 'yo' even if you leave 'Video' as is if I am not wrong Hindi people likely to pronounce 'yo'.

In my personal opinion "WikiPariyoj(a)na Video games" too just be okay and general audiences will not need to refer to specific transliteration system.

Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 12:15, 25 March 2022 (UTC)