Indic Roman Transliteration (deprecated) Keyboard Help
Indic
Roman Transliteration:
A simplified keyboard for typing Roman script with accents or diacritics*
; 'semicolon' means press then release then press next key
|
Character |
Keys Pressed |
Comments |
|
â Ê |
'^' ; 'a' '^' ; 'E' |
For circumflex accent, type '^' before any vowel |
|
á ś |
['] ; [a] ['] ; [s] |
For acute accent/high tone, type ['] before vowel or 's' |
|
à |
[`] ; [a] |
For grave accent/low tone, type [`] before vowel |
|
ã |
'~' ; 'a' |
For nasal vowels, type '~' before vowel |
|
ä |
["] ; [a] |
For dieresis/umlaut, type ["] before vowel |
|
ā |
'-' ; 'a' |
For long vowels, type '-' before vowel |
|
ṅ ẏ |
'>' ; 'n' '>' ; 'y' |
For overdot, type '>' before consonant |
|
ṭ ṛ ṃ ḥ ḷ |
'.' ; 't' '.' ; 'r' '.' ; 'm' '.' ; 'h' '.' ; 'l' |
For underdot, type '.' before consonant |
|
ṝ |
'.' ; 'r' ; '='; 'l' |
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To type any of the accent/diacritics itself, simply type it twice.
Combinations common to Bangla / Assamese:
|
Character |
Keys Pressed |
Comments |
|
l̄ n̄ |
[l] ; [=] ; [l] [n] ; [=] ; [l] |
Use [=] ; [l] for consonant overbars |
|
r̥ |
'r' ; '0' ; 'r' |
Use '0' ; 'r' for all undercircles |
|
ā̃ |
'-' ; 'a' ; '#' ; 'l' |
Use '#' ; 'l' for all nasals over other diacritics |
|
m̐ |
'm' ; 'M' ; 'm' |
Use 'M' ; 'm' for all chandra bindus |
|
l̥̄ |
'l' ; '=' ; 'l' ; '0' ; 'r' |
|
|
ṯ |
'-' ; 't' |
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* This keyboard was designed to interface with SIL Encoding Converters or Fieldworks
Questions or bugs: david_phillips@sall.com
