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Jato or Janto

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The title of this article sometimes appeared as 'Jato' and sometimes as 'Janto' - I'm guessing these are two different transliterations into English from the Devanagari language. I changed them all to 'Jato' for consistency. However I don't speak the language in question, if someone does speak Devanagari please go ahead and change them all back to 'Janto' if that's more appropriate. -Foonarres (talk) 10:51, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Either spelling could be right: the a vowel is nasalized, which we don't do in English. You could add an n to show the nasalization as French would, or not mark it at all as in English—both work. I'd probably write it with an n if for no other reason than to distinguish it from the other JATO: "jet-assisted take-off". But I'm not sure how to edit an article title, so I'll leave it to others to change or not.
(By the way, Devanāgarī isn't a language, it's the alphabet [actually, an abugida] that Nepali and a bunch of other nearby languages use.) 50.0.151.231 (talk) 00:40, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]