


The virama allows us to make as many conjuncts as needed, allowing words like ઈર્ષ્યા (ઈ + ર + ્ + ષ + ્ + ય + ા). Hence, we would use the virama to indicate it is in conjunction with "ક". In the word ષટ્કોણ, "ટ" doesn't have a half-form. The virama is used as an accent in Gujarati to form conjuncts with consonants that do not have the half form. For example, half of an "Ma" is મ્, but what about ટ, ડ, and દ? In addition to forming conjuncts, this key also allows us to combine two consonants where the first doesn't have a "half-looking" character. It takes the place of the apostrophe key in an English keyboard, making it very accessible. As you have learned this key allows us to type conjuncts without remembering any codes. The first key to familiarize is the VIRAMA accent (called halant in English), which looks like ્ on the layout. I will explain the placement of only certain special keys here. There are a certain few exceptions to the phonetic placements because there are more Gujarati consonants than English consonants, but these can be learned easily and need no discussion. I also remapped the Gujarati numerals to coincide with the English numerals. The phonetic consonants are placed as according to Images 1 and 2 above. Below is a discussion of the special characters. I used the Harikrishna font map as a guide, but there are certainly differences as the Harikrishna font is a non-Unicode font. Hence, I created the Gujarati Phonetic and Hindi Phonetic keyboard layouts to make typing more suitable for an English keyboard.

The problem with this built-in default Gujarati keyboard layout is that it doesn't work well if you have an English keyboard. This keyboard seems to have been developed or used by the Department of Engineering (or DOE) in India. Microsoft Windows comes with a default Gujarati keyboard layout (which is simply called Gujarati). If you live in Amsterdam you can get the stickers with cyrillic alfabet in Priwet Rossia .Image 3: Hindi Phonetic Keyboard Layout - Ctrl+Alt State Mac computers: go to System Preferences – Keyboard – Input sources, click on the + in the bottom left corner and scroll down or search for Russian. Pressing the Globe button next to the spacebar toggles between all of your selected languages. At the bottom of your keyboard, touch and hold Globe.On your Android phone or tablet, open any app that you can type with, like Gmail or Keep.At the top of your keyboard, tap Open features menu.Open any app that you can type with, like Gmail.On your Android phone or tablet, install Gboard.When you change languages with Gboard, your Android device’s language settings aren’t affected.
