Phonetic characters

These letters are used in the transliteration of Sanskrit (mostly) and Greek (vowels). Distinctions are made between the Sanskrit and Greek pronunciations of the letters e and o with circumflex. The Sanskrit letters ऍ (candra e) and ऑ (candra o) are pronounced as short (ɛ and ɔ) where the Greek η (eta) and ω (omega) are long (ɛː and ɔː). The use of the Sanskrit candra letters is very rare, but just in case, the distinction is shown here.