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Baraha

The document provides instructions for writing Bengali words using an English phonetic keyboard. It includes: 1) Examples of how to write vowels and consonants in Bengali by typing their phonetic equivalents in English. 2) Notes on forming consonant conjuncts and live/dead consonants. 3) Explanations of using zero-width joiner and non-joiner characters to control ligatures and vowel rendering when typing consonant clusters and combined vowels.

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Baraha

The document provides instructions for writing Bengali words using an English phonetic keyboard. It includes: 1) Examples of how to write vowels and consonants in Bengali by typing their phonetic equivalents in English. 2) Notes on forming consonant conjuncts and live/dead consonants. 3) Explanations of using zero-width joiner and non-joiner characters to control ligatures and vowel rendering when typing consonant clusters and combined vowels.

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Writing Bengali words using phonetic keyboard scheme is as easy as writing our names in English.

For example, can be written as bhArat AmAr desh. Bengali script used for Bengali, Assamese, and Manipuri languages are supported in Baraha. The phonetic keyboard is shown below with examples.

Vowel:
= a, = ~M =M =H = A,aa, = i, = I,ee, = u, = U,oo, = Ru, = RU, = e,E, = ai,oi = o,O, = au,ou

Consonant:
= k, = K,kh, = g, = G,gh, = ~g = c,ch, = C,Ch, = j, = J,jh, = ~j = T, = Th, = D, = Dh, = N = t, = th, = d, = dh, = n = B,bh, =m = S,sh, = Sh, = s, = h,~h

= p, = P,ph, = b,v,

= Y, = y,Yx, () = r, = l,L, = v,w, = Dx = Dhx = j~ja = kSha = kYa (YA PHALA)

Note: and are used in Assamese language.

Others:
=& = Rs Danda = | Double Danda = ||

Zero Width Joiner = ^ Zero Width Non Joiner = ^^

Punctuation Marks:
The English symbols [ ] { } ( ) - + * / = ; : . , " ? ! % \ ~ _ # $ translate into the same symbols in Bengali also.

Quotation Marks:
` ' characters are converted to single smart quotes( ) characters. We can get double smart quotes( ) by using them twice.

When a consonant character is followed by a vowel character, it results in a live consonant.

Example ka kA ki kI ku kU kRu kRU ke kai ko kau kaM kaH Ami bhAratIY

Note:
In the Bengali phonetic keyboard, an implicit 'a' matra is assumed for the last consonant of the word. Example: k,c,T,t,p --> ka,ca,Ta,ta,pa -->,,, , When two or more consecutive consonants appear in the input, they make a consonant conjunct. The last consonant takes the full form and the preceding consonants become half consonants. Example: nyAy = consonant can be written in two ways; 'h', '~h'. If you want to apply a half consonant to consonants such as 'k', 'g', 't', 'd', etc, you have to use '~h' instead of of 'h'. Example:

bakkiMghAm = bakkiMg~hAm =

ZWJ, ZWNJ characters:

^ = ZWJ (zero width joiner) ^^ = ZWNJ (zero width non joiner) Usually when a consonant cluster (two or more consecutive consonants) occurs, it will be rendered as a ligature if that is available in the font. The ZWJ and ZWNJ can be used to produce an alternate rendering of the ligatures. If a consonant is followed by the ZWJ, half-form of the consonant is formed. Example: rakShaNa = rak^ShaNa =

If a dead consonant (consonant with hasant symbol) is required, the ZWNJ character should be used after the consonant.

Example: rAj^^kumAr = rAjkumAr^^ =

If two English characters are making one Bengali vowel (ex: ai, ou), then, ZWJ or ZWNJ character can be used to separate them into different vowels.

Example: iMDiYainPo = iMDiYa^inPo = iMDiYa^^inPo =

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