Devanagari KaGaPa Phonetic Keyboard Help
Devanagari KaGaPa Phonetic Keyboard – Getting Started
This layout is the KaGaPa phonetic layout for the Devanagari script, as distributed in Linux. This is a very intuitively designed layout, strictly following recommendations and key combinations as stated by Unicode, hence a well-compliant one.
This document provides key mappings for the layout across four layers:
- Normal
- Shift
- Right Alt (RAlt)
- Shift + Right Alt
Numbers
Key | Normal | Shift | RAlt | Shift+RAlt |
---|---|---|---|---|
0 | 0 (Digit Zero) | ) (Right Parenthesis) | ० (Devanagari Digit Zero) | ॰ (Devanagari Abbreviation Sign) |
1 | 1 (Digit One) | ! (Exclamation Mark) | १ (Devanagari Digit One) | — |
2 | 2 (Digit Two) | @ (Commercial At) | २ (Devanagari Digit Two) | ₨ (Indian Rupee Sign - Old) |
3 | 3 (Digit Three) | # (Number Sign) | ३ (Devanagari Digit Three) | — |
4 | 4 (Digit Four) | $ (Dollar Sign) | ४ (Devanagari Digit Four) | ₹ (Indian Rupee Sign) |
5 | 5 (Digit Five) | % (Percent Sign) | ५ (Devanagari Digit Five) | — |
6 | 6 (Digit Six) | ^ (Circumflex Accent) | ६ (Devanagari Digit Six) | (Zero Width Non-Joiner) |
7 | 7 (Digit Seven) | & (Ampersand) | ७ (Devanagari Digit Seven) | (Zero Width Joiner) |
8 | 8 (Digit Eight) | * (Asterisk) | ८ (Devanagari Digit Eight) | ँ (Devanagari Sign Candrabindu) |
9 | 9 (Digit Nine) | ( (Left Parenthesis) | ९ (Devanagari Digit Nine) | — |
Alphabets
Key | Normal | Shift | RAlt | Shift+RAlt |
---|---|---|---|---|
A | ा (Devanagari Vowel Sign Aa) | आ (Devanagari Letter Aa) | अ (Devanagari Letter A) | ॲ (Devanagari Letter Candra A) |
B | ब (Devanagari Letter Ba) | भ (Devanagari Letter Bha) | — | — |
C | च (Devanagari Letter Ca) | छ (Devanagari Letter Cha) | — | — |
D | द (Devanagari Letter Da) | ध (Devanagari Letter Dha) | — | — |
E | ॆ (Devanagari Vowel Sign Short E) | े (Devanagari Vowel Sign E) | ऎ (Devanagari Letter Short E) | ए (Devanagari Letter E) |
F | ् (Devanagari Sign Virama) | ॄ (Devanagari Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr) | ॠ (Devanagari Letter Vocalic Rr) | — |
G | ग (Devanagari Letter Ga) | घ (Devanagari Letter Gha) | ग़ (Devanagari Letter Ghha) | — |
H | ह (Devanagari Letter Ha) | ः (Devanagari Sign Visarga) | ᳵ (Vedic Sign Jihvamuliya) | ᳶ (Vedic Sign Upadhmaniya) |
I | ि (Devanagari Vowel Sign I) | ी (Devanagari Vowel Sign Ii) | इ (Devanagari Letter I) | ई (Devanagari Letter Ii) |
J | ज (Devanagari Letter Ja) | झ (Devanagari Letter Jha) | ज़ (Devanagari Letter Za) | — |
K | क (Devanagari Letter Ka) | ख (Devanagari Letter Kha) | क़ (Devanagari Letter Qa) | ख़ (Devanagari Letter Khha) |
L | ल (Devanagari Letter La) | ळ (Devanagari Letter Lla) | ॢ (Devanagari Vowel Sign Vocalic L) | ऌ (Devanagari Letter Vocalic L) |
M | म (Devanagari Letter Ma) | ं (Devanagari Sign Anusvara) | ऽ (Devanagari Sign Avagraha) | ॐ (Om) |
N | न (Devanagari Letter Na) | ण (Devanagari Letter Nna) | ऩ (Devanagari Letter Nnna) | — |
O | ॊ (Devanagari Vowel Sign Short O) | ो (Devanagari Vowel Sign O) | ऒ (Devanagari Letter Short O) | ओ (Devanagari Letter O) |
P | प (Devanagari Letter Pa) | फ (Devanagari Letter Pha) | फ़ (Devanagari Letter Fa) | — |
Q | ट (Devanagari Letter Tta) | ठ (Devanagari Letter Ttha) | — | — |
R | र (Devanagari Letter Ra) | ृ (Devanagari Vowel Sign Vocalic R) | ऋ (Devanagari Letter Vocalic R) | ऱ (Devanagari Letter Rra) |
S | स (Devanagari Letter Sa) | श (Devanagari Letter Sha) | — | — |
T | त (Devanagari Letter Ta) | थ (Devanagari Letter Tha) | — | — |
U | ु (Devanagari Vowel Sign U) | ू (Devanagari Vowel Sign Uu) | उ (Devanagari Letter U) | ऊ (Devanagari Letter Uu) |
V | व (Devanagari Letter Va) | ौ (Devanagari Vowel Sign Au) | औ (Devanagari Letter Au) | — |
W | ड (Devanagari Letter Dda) | ढ (Devanagari Letter Ddha) | ड़ (Devanagari Letter Rra) | ढ़ (Devanagari Letter Rha) |
X | ष (Devanagari Letter Ssa) | ़ (Devanagari Sign Nukta) | ऴ (Devanagari Letter Llla) | — |
Y | य (Devanagari Letter Ya) | ै (Devanagari Vowel Sign Ai) | ऐ (Devanagari Letter Ai) | य़ (Devanagari Letter YYa) |
Z | ञ (Devanagari Letter Nya) | ङ (Devanagari Letter Nga) | — | — |
Symbols & Punctuation
Key | Normal | Shift | RAlt | Shift+RAlt |
---|---|---|---|---|
` | ` (Grave Accent) | ~ (Tilde) | “ (Left Double Quotation Mark) | — |
- | - (Hyphen-Minus) | _ (Underscore) | ॒ (Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta) | — |
= | = (Equals Sign) | + (Plus Sign) | — | — |
[ | [ (Left Square Bracket) | { (Left Curly Bracket) | — | — |
\ | \ (Backslash) | | (Vertical Bar) | । (Devanagari Danda) | ॥ (Devanagari Double Danda) |
] | ] (Right Square Bracket) | } (Right Curly Bracket) | — | — |
; | ; (Semicolon) | : (Colon) | ᳲ (Vedic Sign Ardhavisarga) | ᳳ (Vedic Sign Rotated Ardhavisarga) |
' | ' (Apostrophe) | " (Quotation Mark) | ॑ (Devanagari Stress Sign Udatta) | ” (Right Double Quotation Mark) |
, | , (Comma) | < (Less-Than Sign) | ॅ (Devanagari Vowel Sign Candra E) | ऍ (Devanagari Letter Candra E) |
. | . (Full Stop) | > (Greater-Than Sign) | ॉ (Devanagari Vowel Sign Candra O) | ऑ (Devanagari Letter Candra O) |
/ | / (Slash) | ? (Question Mark) | — | — |
Desktop Keyboard Layout
Author: Abhishek Deshpande
License: MIT
Copyright: © Abhishek Deshpande