Sinhala Keyboard Transliteration Scheme

Vowels

Independent
  ‌ං ‌ඃ
a aa ae aee i ii u uu rI rII lU lUU e ee ai o oo au   nG H / (A-h)
Dependent
කා කැ කෑ කි කී කු කූ කෘ කෲ කෟ කෳ කෙ කේ කෛ කො කෝ කෞ ක් කං කඃ
ka kaa kae kaee ki kii ku kuu krU krUU klU klUU ke kee kai ko koo kau k kanG kaH / ka(A-h)

Consonants

Voiceless Voiced Nasal Nasalised Voiced
Velar
ka kHa ga gHa NG Mga / (A-n)ga
Palatal
ca cHa ja jHa Mya / (A-n)ya Mja / (A-n)ja
Alveolar
Ta THa Da DHa Na MDa / (A-n)Da
Dental
ta tHa da dHa na Mda / (A-n)da
Bilabilal
pa pHa ba bHa ma Mba
Glides, Fricatives, etc
ya ra la va sHa SHa sa ha La fa

Consonant Clusters

ක්‍ර ක්‍ය ර්‍ක
jqMya / jq(A-n)ya kRa kYa rqka

Note

Objective

This transliteration scheme is only for typing Sinhala words using a standard QWERTY keyboard. Only use the keys corresponding to the letters of the Latin alphabet. Give preference to lowercase keys, then uppercase keys and lastly ALT-GR. If ALT-GR is used, provide a non-ALT-GR input sequence to create the same Sinhala letter.

Implementations

Revision History

Revision Log

started: 2006/09/22, last updated: 2008/09/02