Learn English – What do we call English with dots and dashes

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In our native languages, pronunciations of the words are different if we write it in normal English. For that reason, we have a different set of alphabet. Such writing helps us speak correct pronunciation. This specially happens in writing language like Sanskrit in English.

What do we call that English? Here is the example:

Sanskrit written in special English

Best Answer

Technically, you are not writing “in English”, you are using a Latin script1 with diacritics2 to transcribe3 Sanskrit.

If you want a writer to use the “dots and dashes”, ask them to “use diacritic marks”.


1 the letters of the English and many other western languages
2 the dots and dashes
3 to write in another script

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