Why does automatic transliteration from Hindi (Devanagari) to English often produce varied spellings for the same word?

💡 Explanation

Hindi's Devanagari script allows multiple English spellings because its grapheme-phoneme correspondence isn't one-to-one; variations arise in how sounds are mapped to English letters. Therefore, transliteration tools generate different outputs rather than a single standard, because various phonetic interpretations are plausible.

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