Sinhala Keyboard Transliteration Scheme
Vowels
Independent |
අ |
ආ |
ඇ |
ඈ |
ඉ |
ඊ |
උ |
ඌ |
ඍ |
ඎ |
ඏ |
ඐ |
එ |
ඒ |
ඓ |
ඔ |
ඕ |
ඖ |
|
ං |
ඃ |
a |
aa |
ae |
aee |
i |
ii |
u |
uu |
rI |
rII |
lU |
lUU |
e |
ee |
ai |
o |
oo |
au |
|
nG |
H / (A-h) |
Dependent |
ක |
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 |
ක |
ඛ |
ග |
ඝ |
ඞ |
ඟ |
ka |
kHa |
ga |
gHa |
NG |
Mga / (A-n)ga |
Palatal |
ච |
ඡ |
ජ |
ඣ |
ඤ |
ඦ |
ca |
cHa |
ja |
jHa |
Mya / (A-n)ya |
Mja / (A-n)ja |
Alveolar |
ට |
ඨ |
ඩ |
ඪ |
ණ |
ඬ |
Ta |
THa |
Da |
DHa |
Na |
MDa / (A-n)Da |
Dental |
ත |
ථ |
ද |
ධ |
න |
ඳ |
ta |
tHa |
da |
dHa |
na |
Mda / (A-n)da |
Bilabilal |
ප |
ඵ |
බ |
භ |
ම |
ඹ |
pa |
pHa |
ba |
bHa |
ma |
Mba |
Glides, Fricatives, etc |
ය |
ර |
ල |
ව |
ශ |
ෂ |
ස |
හ |
ළ |
ෆ |
ya |
ra |
la |
va |
sHa |
SHa |
sa |
ha |
La |
fa |
Consonant Clusters
ඥ |
ක්ර |
ක්ය |
ර්ක |
jqMya / jq(A-n)ya |
kRa |
kYa |
rqka |
Note
-
The key (q) is used to join letters.
-
The key (Q) is used to create touching letters.
-
(A-) represents ALT-GR. i.e. The right ALT key.
-
Press (A-.) to insert a "෴".
-
Press SHIFT-space to insert a no-break space.
-
Press (A-space) to insert a ZWNJ.
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