Telugu typing practice

Telugu letters

Telugu has its own script, so the tables have a row for every letter: the vowels and consonants, the vowel signs (guninthalu) that join a consonant, the pollu ్, and the marks ం and ః. A vowel has two forms, అ, ఆ, ఇ on their own and ా, ి, ీ after a consonant, so కా is క then ా. A consonant cluster is typed key by key with the pollu between, and the second consonant then shows as an ottu beneath the first: క, ్, క gives క్క.

Inscript is the same on Windows, macOS and Linux, apart from Linux typing ః and ఞ without Shift. It puts the vowel signs and the pollu under the left hand and the commonest consonants under the right, and Shift gives the full vowel on a sign's key (ా on E, ఆ on Shift+E) and the aspirated consonant (క on K, ఖ on Shift+K). A phonetic layout puts letters on the English keys that sound alike instead; macOS and Linux each have one, and they differ. Windows has none: its Telugu Phonetic keyboard turns whole words typed in English letters into Telugu, so there is no key to show.