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This is a phonetic keyboard for writing Sanskrit with the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST)  based on the Harvard-Kyoto input system. Instead of diacritics, capital letters are mainly used to enter characters that do not have a corresponding letter in Latin script. This reduces the keystrokes.

The keyboard is mnemonic instead of positional, which means it works on all language keyboards regardless of the placement of the letters.

Common vedic svaras are also available. For this, a Unicode Font which supports transliterated Letters and Vedic svaras like URW Palladio ITU (designed by Herrmann Zapf and edited by Ulrich Stiehl) is necessary.                

 

Vowels

 

Simple Vowels

IAST	a	ā	i	ī	u	ū	ṛ	ṝ	ḷ	ḹ
Devanāgarī	अ/	आ/ा	इ/ि	ई/ी	उ/ु	ऊ/ु	ऋ/ृ	ॠ/ॄ	ऌ/ॢ	ॡ/ॣ
Input	a	aa or A	i	ii or I	U	uu or U	R	RR	L	LL

 

Diphthongs

IAST	e	o	ai	au
Devanāgarī	ए/े	ओ/ो	ऐ/ै	औ/ौ
Input	e	o	ai	au

To get separate untransliterated vowels, press [ ESC ] after the first vowel, e.g. [ a ] +[ ESC ] + [ a ]  would result in aa, not ā! .

To get uppercase transliterated vowels, press the equal sign key [ = ] after having entered the transliterated character e.g. [ U ] + [ = ]  generates Ū.

To get untransliterated uppercase characters out of uppercase keys used for transliterated characters, press the same key again. E.g. [ A ] + [ A ] generates A.

 

Consonants

 

Gutturals/ kaṇṭhyāḥ

IAST	k	kh	g	gh	ṅ
Devanāgarī	क्	ख्	ग्	घ्	ङ्
Input	k	kh	g	gh	G

Palatals/ tālavyāḥ

IAST	c	ch	j	jh	ñ
Devanāgarī	च्	छ्	ज्	झ्	ञ्
Input	c	ch	j	jh	J

Cerebrals/mūrdhanyāḥ

IAST	ṭ	ṭh	ḍ	ḍh	ṇ
Devanāgarī	ट्	ठ्	ड्	ढ्	ङ्
Input	T	Th	D	Dh	N

Dentals/dantyāḥ

IAST	t	th	d	dh	n
Devanāgarī	त्	थ्	द्	ध्	न्
Input	t	th	d	dh	n

Labials /oṣṭhyāḥ

IAST	p	ph	b	bh	m
Devanāgarī	प्	फ्	ब्	भ्	म्
Input	p	ph	b	bh	m

Aproximants /antasthāḥ/haṇ

IAST	h	y	r	l	v
Devanāgarī	ह्	य्	र्	ल्	व्
Input	h	y	r	l	v

Frictatives

IAST		ś	ṣ	s
Devanāgarī		श्	ष्	स्
Input		Z or sh	S	s

Consonantal allophones

IAST	ḥ visargaḥ	ṃ anusvāraḥ	 (1) candrabindhuḥ	m̐ (2) candrabindhuḥ	̐ (3) combining candrabindhuḥ
Devanāgarī	ः	ं	ꣲ	ꣲ	ꣲ
Input	H	M	MM	mM	~

⁽¹⁾ This transliterated candrabinduḥ only works with URW Palladio ITU font!
⁽²⁾ This transliterated candrabinduḥ is a comnination of m with U+0310 and the candrabinduḥ is not always in the middle of the m depending on the font!
⁽³⁾ This is a combining candrabinduḥ, which can be joined with any other character.

 

To get uppercase transliterated consonants, press the equal sign key [ = ] after having entered the transliterated character e.g. [ ṭ ] +  [ = ] generates Ṭ.

To get untransliterated uppercase characters out of uppercase keys used for transliterated characters, press the same key again. E.g. [ T ] + [ T ] generates T. [ M ] + [ M ] + [ M ] generates M.

To get doubled transliterated consonants, press [ ESC ] between the consonant-combinations, e.g. [ Z ] + [ ESC ] + [ Z ] would result in śś instead of Z.

 

Punctuation / Vedic characters

 

Special characters

marks	– long hyphen	√ root/dhātuḥ
input	--^	VV

Vedic svaras / characters

marks/ character	̱ combining macron below U+0331	̍ combining vertical line above U+030D	̎ devanagari double svarita sign U+030E		# number sign or hash	" quotation mark	ḻ vedic cerebral ḻ
input	_	# or "	# # or " "		###	" " " quotation mark	x