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No, in general.

I guess the thing is, its obvious from the way that you wrote it that you don't know the first thing about it. I could show you the right way, if you like.

Here, just look at this and you should see what you are doing wrong.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm

Its not actually an alphabet, it works a bit differently.

Yes, vowels are shown using diactrics, and all consonant characters have an inherent /@/. (as far as I can tell you know you know basic X-Sampa, but tell me if I'm thinking of someone else.) The diactrics modify that to another vowel.

So, क is the character that goes /k@/. You can add diactrics to it to change it, for example, का कि कौ, /ka kI kO/.

Vowels also can be written alone, like आ इ औ (same vowels as above). So, you unknowingly used these instead of the diactrics, and since without the diactrics to do something to the /@/ that comes with every character, there are a bunch of unintended /@/'s floating around in what you had there. Look:

कओमए तइ कइअमइ

The right way to write "Come ti chiami", would probably be more like कोमे ती कीआमी. See how that works?

About the nazalization symbols, I bet you're talking about the ं ँ, right? How those work is, normally you use the dot with the little curve underneath (chandrabindu) to nasalize the vowel, but if there is something that would get in the way and make things look funny, like some vowel diactric, you use just the dot.

These days, a lot of the time people will just use the dot though for lazines's sake. And also, the dot can also be used a lot of the time for a nasal consonant. So, instead of writing the full Devanagari character for /n/ or /N/ or /m/ or whatever, they'll just use the dot. Which can make things confusing, since theres the obnoxious ambiguity of weather there is supposed to be a full nasal consonant or just a nasalised vowel or something. But in Hindi, a lot of the time nasalised vowels tend to have a sort of residual nasal consonant with them for some reson. So /mE/, "I", which as a nasalised /E/ will often sound kinda like /mEn/.

Yeah, Hindi nasalisation can be obnoxious.

Chinese: 話它糸 娃豬囉箍哂爹薯
Japanese: ワタシハジュウロクサイデス
Romaji: Watashi ha juu sai desu
English: I am 16 Years old

Hmm. Typing in a phonetic Vietnamese style will be hard.

Hmm. Taí-pìng in ơ phô-né-thịch Viết-nà-mís tai-ồ huil bi hơd.

I tried. gonk (Some of those syllables don't even exist in the original Vietnamese language.)

Write English in the Hebrew alphabet! biggrin

Уууууууууу. ай лаик лукинг ат ызыр скрыпс.....

Oooooooooooooh, I like looking at other scripts.

Erg. I couldn't remember if there was a 'th' sound in Russian, and I didn't think there was, so I substituted з as well as using ы for uh and ih in other and scripts.