{
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
    "$id": "https://github.com/indic-transliteration/sanscript.js/raw/master/src/sanscript.schema.json",
    "title": "Sanscript Scheme",
    "description": "A representation of a writing system (Brahmic or roman) that can be used for Sanskrit and other Indic languages",
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "vowels": {
            "description": "'Independent' forms of the vowels. These are used whenever the vowel does not immediately follow a consonant.",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "minItems": 16
        },
        "vowel_marks": {
            "description": "'Dependent' forms of the vowels. These are used whenever the vowel immediately follows a consonant. If a letter is not listed in `vowels`, it should not be listed here.",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "minItems": 15
        },
        "yogavaahas": {
            "description": "Miscellaneous marks, all of which are used in Sanskrit.",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "minItems": 2
        },
        "virama": {
            "description": "In syllabic scripts like Devanagari, consonants have an inherent vowel that must be suppressed explicitly. We do so by putting a virama after the consonant.",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "maxItems": 1
        },
        "consonants": {
            "description": "Various Sanskrit consonants and consonant clusters. Every token here has an explicit vowel. Thus 'क' is 'ka' instead of 'k'.",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "minItems": 36
        },
        "symbols": {
            "description": "Numbers and punctuation",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "minItems": 14
        },
        "zwj": {
            "description": "Zero-width joiner. This is used to separate a consonant cluster and avoid a complex ligature.",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "maxItems": 1
        },
        "skip": {
            "description": "Dummy consonant. This is used in ITRANS to prevert certain types of parser ambiguity. Thus 'barau' -> बरौ but  'bara_u' -> बरउ."
        },
        "accents": {
            "description": "Vedic accent. Udatta and anudatta.",
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "minItems": 2
        },
        "accented_vowel_alternates": {
            "description": "Alternates for accented vowels. Eg. á and é as alternates of á and é",
            "type": "object"
        },
        "candra": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "maxItems": 1
        },
        "other": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "string"
            },
            "minItems": 9
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "vowels", "virama", "consonants", "symbols"
    ]
}