

Typing in Tamil can be as simple as downloading and installing a Tamil keyboard of your choice and toggling on and off between this and your native keyboard. Here, I’ll discuss software that I regularly use for typing in Tamil on a QWERTY keyboard, as well as some new fonts and online resources that have been developed for representing Tamil in Tamil-Brahmi and Vaṭṭeḻuttu scripts. Like other languages which use non-Roman scripts, downloading or crafting a keyboard to facilitate typing can often present its own set of challenges.

Tamil is one of the twenty-two official languages spoken in India and its representation in writing dates back to the early centuries BCE.

Digital Orientalist’s 2022 Conference “Infrastructures”.The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Workshop and Conference 2021.
