Tamil 99

Demo video on Tamil99 typing (in Tamil language)

Tamil 99 is a keyboard layout approved by the Tamil Nadu Government. The layout, along with several monolingual and bilingual fonts for use with the Tamil language, was approved by government order on 13 June 1999.^[1] Designed for use with a normal QWERTY keyboard, typing follows a consonant-vowel pattern. The arrangement of the characters allow for fast and simple typing for users familiar with the script.

References

^ "Tamil Font Encoding and Keyboard Layout standards of the Tamilnadu Government". Tamil Electronic Library. 16 November 2005. Retrieved 17 May 2010.

External links

Tamil99 Extended Keyboard Help
Tamil99 Web Keyboard
Web-based input with Tamil99

Keyboard layouts

Latin script
(list)

QWERTY (list)	British and American Icelandic Portuguese Romanian
QWERTY-like	AZERTY QWERTZ German Albanian QZERTY
not QWERTY-like	BÉPO Colemak Dvorak (Svorak) EurKEY HCESAR Maltron Neo SKY Turkish F ŪGJRMV Workman

Non-Latin
script

Brahmic scripts	Bengali Dzongkha (Tibetan) InScript (Indian languages; Hindi, Telugu etc) Khmer Meitei (Manipuri) Sinhala Tamil (99)
East Asian scripts	Chinese Japanese (thumb-shift) Korean (Dubeolsik, Sebeolsik)
Other	Arabic Intellark Jawi Georgian Hebrew Russian (pre-reform) Russian (post-reform) Urdu

For mobile
devices

Japanese scripts	2-touch input [ja] Nico Touch [ja]
Physical	E.161 iTap LetterWise Multi-tap T9 XT9 SureType Telephone (9-key) Thumb board
Virtual	5-Tiles FITALY Fleksy Flick input Gboard Graffiti KALQ MessagEase ShapeWriter SwiftKey Swype TouchPal Typewise