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NLCI Malayalam WinScript Keyboard Help

NLCI Malayalam WinScript Keyboard help

This Keyboard mimic Malayalam WinScript Keyboard Layout designed by NLCI in 1988. Several linguists and members of translation community are still using this keyboard layout for keyboarding the text. This is a phonetic based keyboarding system designed with the objective of keyboarding text with minimal keystrokes. Keys are also layed out according the frequency of occurance, yet tried to follow a phonetic based keyboarding system.

Keyboard layout

Input sequences

Special cases

Keys Character
ee
ii
ll
lll
LL
oo
rr
RR
uu
ss

nta

Keys Character
nxt ൻ്റ

Using =

Keys Character
=r
=z

Legacy nta

Keys Character
nxt ന്‍റ
ൻ്റ + ` ന്റ

Vowel sign elongation

Eg: kii will generate കീ To generate vowel sign elongation of kii + i will generate കീീ

Eg: kuu will generate കൂ To generate vowel sign elongation of kuu + u will generate കൂൂ

Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic L

^ is used to generate Malayalam vowel sign vocalic L, Eg k xl^ will generate കൢ

Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic LL

^^ is used to generate Malayalam vowel sign vocalic LL, Eg k xl^^ will generate കൣ

Praslesham

Praslesham can be typed using the F key.

Chandrakala

x is used as chandrakala Eg k x will generate ക്‌

Conjuncts

x is used as conjuncts Eg k x l will generate ക്ല

Using X

Eg k X g will generate ക്‌ഗ

Numbers

` Backtick with number will get malayalam number Eg ` 1 will generate

Backtick for change into English

` Backtick is used to change into English Eg ` will generate q

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