Overview On The Tamil Language

The Tamil language is spoken worldwide, and it is listed under the top 15 languages in the world. Almost 10 crore people in the world are considering speaking Tamil. The major countries adopting the language are India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. Tamil is an official language of Tamil Nadu, Andaman Nicobar and Puducherry. As it is considered as the oldest language surviving in the world, the Tamil Typesetting Service is provided worldwide. Tamil alphabets consist of 12 vowels and 18 constants, and further, these are combined to form 216 compound letters, one special character- aaythaezutthu and 247 characters.

Typesetting services are desktop publishing services. These services are necessary for translating the content written in one language into a new language or multiple languages. This type of service demands the usage of appropriate font and alphabets. The texts usually get expanded during translation, and the specific fonts do not share universal characters, making them suitable for other languages. Due to these specified reasons, typesetting services are preferred to ensure visual representation of the content written and the correct usage of fonts.

Keyboard Details Of Tamil Typesetting

The keyboard layout consists of the eighteen consonants of the Tamil language has கஙசஞடணதநபமயரலவழளறன, the Grantha consonants and SRiiஸஷஜஹக்ஷஸ்ரீ, along with eleven vowels அஆஇஈஉஊஎஏஐஒஓ. It has a wide range of vowel components and combining characters, and the Pulli் and Aythamஃ marks, and other punctuation marks. The characters are usually typed using keystrokes combination.

The Tamil characters are usually typed using separate keys for both consonants and components. The on-screen appeared characters are combinants, which the computer considers as single characters. This states that two or more keystrokes are used to display consonant-vowel combinants. When the arrow keys are used to move the cursor throughout the text, a single keystroke is required to move past each character.

And when you move the cursor towards the left of a combinant character and press the Delete key, it will completely erase the whole character. When the cursor is moved to the right of a combinant, and the Backspace key is pressed, it will erase only the only vowel component. In such a case, the vowel component appears both to the left or right above or below the consonant.

Vowels and Pulli Marks Typesetting

The separate vowel characters on the keyboard will produce that character, and it won’t combine with consonants. The vowel-consonant combinant characters are entered through typing a specific key for combinant, or the consonant and vowel components are typed separately.

The consonant contains the implicit vowel அ, and for producing a pure consonant, you need to add a Pulli mark ் by typing a semicolon; immediately after the consonant is typed. In every case, the consonant-Pulli mark combinant acts as a consonant-vowel combinant when the arrow key is used along with Backspace and Delete.

Typesetting Of SRii Character 

The SRii character is entered by pressing the combined keys – _ Shift+Underscore or Shift+Hyphen. Phonetic keyboards are usually used as a combination such as `Sri’ or `Shri’ to enter the SRii character. It is necessary to try every type of keystroke combination that your Tamil keyboard supports because the browsers can recognise any one of the combinations.

Examples of Keystrokes

There are many specific examples to input characters based on the consonant க. The Grantha consonants are entered with Shift key combinations, using the same input method.

• Tamil Consonants 

Consonant க Vowel ் Combinabtக்  Keystroke – f ;

Vowel அ    Combinabt க‍          Keystroke – f 

Vowel ஆ      CombinantகாKeystroke – f h

Vowel இCombinantகிKeystroke – f p

• Grantha Consonants

Consonant ஜVowel/Pulli ்       Combinant ஜ்Keystrokes – $ ;

Vowel/Pulli அ        Combinant ஜ‍ Keystrokes – $

What Are The Alt Code Shortcuts for Tamil Language Letters?

There are specific ways in Tamil Typesetting Service to type the Tamil Language through Alt Code Shortcuts.

• Decimal and Hexadecimal Codes

The Alt Codes are of two major types – decimal and hexadecimal. Your keyboard must consist of numerals to enter the decimal values with the help of alt keys. The Hexadecimal codes are used in Microsoft Word, and you need to enter the specific code and press alt and x together to convert the code into a letter.

• Inserting Consonant Letters

The compound form letters are special in Tamil created by combining vowels and consonants. For example, க் + அ = க, here க் is a consonant, and அ is a vowel combining creates compound form க. You have direct alt code shortcuts for அ and க but not for the consonant க் (with a dot above). In this case, use ‘alt + 2965’, release the keys to create க. Continue ‘alt + 3021’ and release to convert க into க். Similarly, use hexadecimal keys continuously two times to create consonant letters.

What Is The Technology Used To Convert English To Tamil?

The Tamil Transliteration software is basically used to type the Tamil Language from English. This software is a machine transliteration software used in the Tamil Typesetting Service.

Which Is The Relevant Process To Change The Tamil Font?

When you type with English to Tamil transcription in Unicode Tamil font, it’s portable means that the Tamil text can be used anywhere in the digital world. You can download Tamil text in a notepad file in .txt format or in a document file in MS word.

When you want to change the font you typed, you can easily change it downloaded in the system. After downloading Tamil text, open it in MS Word or Notepad and change the font family.

How To Get The Typed Tamil Text In English?

The English translation of the Tamil text can be easily done by just copying the text and just pasting it on Tamil to the English translator tool.

Difference Between Tamil Transliteration and Tamil Translation 

Transliteration is the method of changing the content or script used to write words in one language to the content of another language. The Translation process gives you the meaning of the words in another language.

How Much Does The Tamil Typesetting Service Cost?

The Tamil Typesetting Service is provided by various service providers and companies adopting different software technologies. Hence, the service cost varies in different companies, and it is specifically charged based on words and pages.