WRISE IN TAMIL ANDROID
eKalappai and NHM Writer work exclusively on Windows, whereas Azhagi works on Mac, Linux, and Android mobile devices as well. eKalappai focuses exclusively on Tamil, and its latest version on GitHub is dated 2015. Both Azhagi and NHM Writer have been kept up to date and include the ability to type in languages other than Tamil. These include, but are not limited to Azhagi (which also supports typing in fifteen other Indian scripts), eKalappai, and NHM Writer. For modern Tamil scripts there are a number of free downloadable software programs that allow you to easily toggle between your native keyboard and one with Tamil script without having to download specialized keyboards or font packages. However, having downloaded various keyboards and built my own using the Microsoft Keyboard Layout creator, I also know that this deceptively simple process can lead to a host of other issues. Typing in Tamil can be as simple as downloading and installing a Tamil keyboard of your choice and toggling on and off between this and your native keyboard. Here, I’ll discuss software that I regularly use for typing in Tamil on a QWERTY keyboard, as well as some new fonts and online resources that have been developed for representing Tamil in Tamil-Brahmi and Vaṭṭeḻuttu scripts.
Like other languages which use non-Roman scripts, downloading or crafting a keyboard to facilitate typing can often present its own set of challenges. Tamil is one of the twenty-two official languages spoken in India and its representation in writing dates back to the early centuries BCE.
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