Tamil is spoken in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, in Sri Lanka and in Singapore, and has one of the oldest literary traditions in the world. This keyboard uses the standard InScript layout; a few keys are blank because Tamil has fewer consonants than Hindi.
Each box shows a key on a US (QWERTY) keyboard, the Tamil character it types, and in grey the character it types with Shift.
Open this page and start typing. Each key on your keyboard is turned into the Tamil character in the same position, as shown in the table above, so you don't need to change any settings. On a phone or tablet, tap the keys on screen.
InScript is the standard keyboard layout for Indian scripts, set by the Government of India. Vowels are on the left side of the keyboard and consonants on the right, and the layout works the same way for all the major Indian scripts, so once you learn it for one language you can type the others.
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