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Sanskrit romanization (was: Yellowblue (was Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?))

From:Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>
Date:Saturday, May 1, 2004, 0:27
    Javier wrote:

"
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html"

On that page, the following list is given for the romanization system: "a A
i I u U R RR lR lRR e ai o au M H k kh g gh G c ch j jh J T Th D Dh N t th d
dh n p ph b bh m y r l v z S s h". What phonemes do these letters and
digraphs represent? Why are capital letters used even if the lowercase
letters are still available?

Trebor.