Kannada Vedic Typer
Type phonetic English in the box. It follows the same typing rules as the desktop app and runs entirely in your browser.
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Convert text to Kannada (paste Devanagari, IAST or phonetic English)
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Keys and accents
Marks always end up in this order: letter, vowel sign, anusvara or visarga, Vedic mark. Capital M is the anusvara, lowercase m stays ಮ. A consonant followed by M or H gives the full letter plus the sign (kM = ಕಂ). Put the break key in between to keep the half letter: c`H = ಚ್ಃ. With Vedic mode on, g`M gives the single āgama anusvāra ꣳ (U+A8F3). Vedic mode off turns off the three accent keys and ꣳ, so quotes and apostrophes type normally. Q right after a consonant adds the nukta (jQa = ಜ಼). The number keys type Kannada digits unless you switch them off at the top. The font is Arkavathi, a modified version of Goda by Venkatesh, embedded in this page (see About & credits below).
About & credits
- About
- A free, offline typer for Vedic Kannada. Nothing you type leaves this page.
- Made by
- Shashank Koundinya Banavathi Rajashekara, with help of Claude · github.com/fellowshipofhogwarts
- Feedback
- Questions and ideas → GitHub Discussions · Bugs → GitHub Issues
- Desktop app
- Type Kannada in Word or any other app → Download for Windows / Linux
- Program licence
- MIT OR Apache-2.0 (see the repository)
- Font
- Arkavathi is a modified version of Goda by Venkatesh (Goda project page).
Goda © 2014, Parankusacar Institute of Vedic Studies, with Reserved Font Name “Goda”. Based on earlier work © 2002, Indian Institute of Science.
Modifications © 2026 Shashank Koundinya Banavathi Rajashekara.
Licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. - Standards
- Unicode Kannada and Vedic Extensions · ISO 15919 · IAST