{"id":643,"date":"2025-08-31T10:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?p=643"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:11:14","slug":"typing-in-newar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/2025\/08\/31\/typing-in-newar\/","title":{"rendered":"Typing in Newar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned how to type in Newar! Dipak Tuladhar taught me. No more studying long tables to find a match and copy-pasting. No more Google Lens to grab the character. Typing any letter, like a boss, even ones with ligatures (which are apparently called <em>half-letters<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to type on a computer is with Nepali Unicode Romanized keyboard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EE95HHJNmiw\">Install Nepali Romanized<\/a> as a keyboard layout. Download it <a href=\"https:\/\/ltk.org.np\/downloads.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the layout:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/lislab\/files\/2025\/10\/Nepali-unicode-keyboard-636x388.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"388\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2025\/10\/Nepali-unicode-keyboard-636x388.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2025\/10\/Nepali-unicode-keyboard-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2025\/10\/Nepali-unicode-keyboard-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2025\/10\/Nepali-unicode-keyboard-1536x938.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/files\/2025\/10\/Nepali-unicode-keyboard.png 1670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image seems mostly to match what I get with Nepali Romanized keyboard activated, with some small exceptions (c and shift-c are switched).<\/p>\n<p>On iPhone, one option is Hamro Keyboard (annoying though because it&#8217;s hard to switch out of).<\/p>\n<p>The nasal diacritics are made with capital V and capital M, respectively:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chandrabindu: V, as in \u091b\u0947\u0901 &#8211; typed `CeV&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Anusvara: M, e.g \u0938\u0915\u0938\u093f\u0924\u0902 &#8211; typed `sksitM&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Newari, the convention (I believe) is to use the chandrabindu (the crescent-shaped nasal) for nasalized short vowels and the anusavara (which looks like a dot) for nasalized long vowels. In the case that the nasalized long vowel is `a&#8217;, the explicit vowel sign is optional (?).<\/p>\n<p>You can make ligatures using \/.<br \/>\nThere are three ligatures that are special for Newari, not found in the Nepali alphabet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u0932\u094d\u0939 &#8211; l\/h<\/li>\n<li>\u092e\u094d\u0939 &#8211; m\/h<\/li>\n<li>\u0928\u094d\u0939 &#8211; n\/h<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The visarga is not the same as the colon. The visarga is typed using | (above backlash).<\/p>\n<p>You can use Control+space to switch between keyboards on a Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Certain distinctions are not made in Newari (or Magar) even though they are made in Nepali (no retroflex consonants):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>\u0924 \u091f<\/li>\n<li>\u0925 \u0920<\/li>\n<li>\u0926 \u0921<\/li>\n<li>\u0922 \u0927<\/li>\n<li>\u0928 \u0923<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latter members of each pair are not part of the Newari alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>Dipak was the only speaker I talked to who knew this typing method. Lucky that I encountered him early in the process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned how to type in Newar! Dipak Tuladhar taught me. No more studying long tables to find a match and copy-pasting. No more Google Lens to grab the character. Typing any letter, like a boss, even ones with ligatures (which are apparently called half-letters). 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