Keyboard Mappings

Key maps for better understandability


The following tables shows the key and its corresponding output Unicode for phonetic and Inscript layouts.

Phonetic Key Map

Swaras (Vowels) both Independent and Dependent

Language a A i I u U R e E Y o O V M H
Kannada ಅಂ ಅಃ
Hindi अं अः
Gujarati અં અઃ
Telugu అం అః
Tamil அஂ ஆஃ

Vyanjanas (Consonants)

Language ka Ka ga Ga Z
Kannada
Hindi ङ्
ca Ca ja Ja z
Kannada
Hindi
ta Ta da Da Na
Kannada
Hindi
tha Tha dha Dha Na
Kannada
Hindi
pa Pa ba Ba Ma
Kannada
Hindi
ya ra la va sha Sha or x sa ha La Xa
Kannada ಕ್ಷ
Hindi क्ष

Tamil Consonants - Phonetic

ka/ga Za/Ga
ca ja za
ta/da Na
tha/dha na
pa/ba ma M
ya ra Ra la La Qa va sa ha H xa Xa qa
க்ஷ

NOTE: "au" is mapped to "V" and "ai"/"ae" is mapped to "Y". Scroll down to find examples.


Inscript Key Map

The keyboard mappings for the inscript keyboard layouts.

Swaras (vowels)

Independent

Language D E F R G T S Z W ! A Q
Kannada
Hindi
Gujarati
Telugu
Tamil
Malayalam
Bengali
Punjabi
Oriya

Dependent

Language E f r g t s z @ a \ q X x
Kannada ಿ
Hindi ि
Gujarati િ
Telugu ి
Tamil ி
Malayalam ി
Bengali ি
Punjabi ਿ
Oriya ି

Vyanajanas (Consonants)

Language k K i I U
Hindi
Kannada
; : p P }
Hindi
Kannada
[ { C
Hindi
Kannada
l L o O v
Hindi
Kannada
h H y Y c
Hindi
Kannada
/ j n b M
Hindi
Kannada
< m u B %
Hindi ग्ञ
Kannada ಜ್ಞ

^ & ''
Hindi त्र क्ष श्र
Kannada ತ್ರ ಕ್ಷ ಶ್ರ

Examples

Some simple sentences typed using Phonetic and Inscript layout for Hindi

  1. PHONETIC
  2. INSCRIPT

The same keyboard can be used to type Marathi also as Hindi & Marathi both use the Devanagari script. An example Marathi sentence is:


For popular layouts like KaGaPa?, Remington and Tamil99, the "Show Current Layout" option can be used to view the keymap.

The key map assignment can be changed dynamically by altering the xml files. Please see HowToChangeKeyMap? wiki page for more information.


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