Special cases during transliteration

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Special cases

1. To type 'ó' in the middle of a word (say Á¡¿¸Ãõ, ¦ºó¿£÷), use 'nh'.

e.g. maanhagaram, senhnheer

In all other places, typing 'n' is enough to generate ó. If you wish to, you can type 'nh' itself everywhere to generate ó.

2. To generate ÀÂý¸û, you can type one of the following :

payanghaL payankhaL payanKaL payancaL payanCaL

(You can type 'payankaL' also if you change the keymapping for 'nk' by clicking on 'Change Key mappings' under 'Preferences' menu)

3. To generate words like

ÀÄý¸û, ¸Äý¸û, ÜôÀý¸û

type :

palanghaL, kalanghaL, cooppanghaL

If you type palangaL, kalangal, cooppangaL etc., you will get

ÀÄí¸û, ¸Äí¸û, ÜôÀí¸û only.

So, take note of the use of 'gh', 'kh' etc. in those cases.

'gh' is the first choice to use since it does not disturb the phonetics.

4. To generate ¿ýÌ

nanghu nankhu nanKu nancu nanCu

(You can type 'nanku' also if you change the keymapping for 'nk' by clicking on 'Change KeyMappings' under 'Preferences' menu)

5. To generate ¿¡ýÌ

naanghu naankhu naanKu naancu naanCu

(You can type 'naanku' also if you change the keymapping for 'nk' by clicking on 'Change KeyMappings' under 'Preferences' menu)

6. To generate ¿¡ý¾¡ý

naanDhaan naanThaan (i.e. use capital D and T instead of lowercase 'd' and 't')

(You can type 'naanthaan' also if you change the keymapping for 'nth' by clicking on 'Change KeyMappings' under 'Preferences' menu)

7. To generate §ÀðÃ¢ì, ¦Àð§Ã¡ø etc.

paeTrik, peTroal (i.e. use capital 'T' instead of lowercase 't')

8. Above, you saw the use of capital 'T' to generate §ÀðÃ¢ì. Capital letters can be used judiciously to generate many words. For e.g., to generate a place name like §¸¡Àý§†¸ý, type coapanHaegan.

For more details, see 'Tamil Equivalent for any English Text' topic.

You may ask:

1. In some Tamil poems, ý appears at the start of a word itself. But, I am unable to get it at the start of a word using Azhagi. Is there a way?

Yes. Definitely. You type 'nH' for the same. See an example below

´ôÒÃÅ¢ É¡øÅÕõ §¸¦¼É¢ý «·¦¾¡ÕÅý

Å¢üÚì§¸¡û ¾ì¸ Ð¨¼òÐ.

To get the above, you type :

oppuravi nHaalvarum kaedenin aqdhoruvan

vitrukkOL thakka thudaiththu.

2. How do I type a phrase like ¦¸¡ø±Ûï ¦º¡ø, where a vowel '±' follows a consonant 'ø'?

You can type this easily in TTA during NTT. Type '¦¸¡ø ±Ûï ¦º¡ø' by typing 'kol enunj chol'. Then, delete the space before '±Ûï' to get '¦¸¡ø±Ûï'. However, there is a better way to do it, both during TT and NTT. Just tick 'Use back`quote as mey-uyir separator' under 'Preferences' menu. Thereafter, u can type back-quote character whenever you want to separate a 'mey' from an 'uyir'. So, to get ¦¸¡ø±Ûï, type "kol`enunj". The back-quote will not appear in TTA at any time. What you will get is only ¦¸¡ø±Ûï.

3. I understand Azhagi allows to type Tamil Numerals too. How do I generate the same?

Keep checked the 'Tamil Numerals & Sp. Symbols on' option under 'Preferences' menu. Then, use Ma to Mi to type 1 to 9 in Tamil. My and Mz generate the special symbols 10 and 100.

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