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Devanagari KaGaPa Phonetic Keyboard Help

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)

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Author: Abhishek Deshpande
License: MIT
Copyright: © Abhishek Deshpande

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