These conventions are used to write and edit Indic-related articles, as well as to provide consistent naming of people, places, and historical terms of the Indian subcontinent.
This applies to any articles related to Indic subjects, or words derived from languages written in an Indic script. It also applies to most of the religious works of the Indian religions.
This convention should be applied to any language spoken in the Indian subcontinent that is written in an Indic script. The major languages are: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani (when written in Kannada or Devanagari scripts), Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Punjabi (when written in Gurmukhi script), Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu (written in Kannada script).
The following languages are of Indic origin, but will usually be written in non-Indic scripts, usually derived from Arabic (see . This convention will normally apply to them only when transliterating from writings in an Indic script: Urdu, Kashmiri, Punjabi (western), Sindhi.