Existing Tamil keyboard on computers (Annexure 1) has 63 letters, and is congested. My invention is aimed exclusively at re-designing key board for Tamil to make typing faster like English. In the process of invention, surprisingly the Tamil letters have become very simple and uniform in appearance and the total number got reduced to 215 from 247 (Annexure 4) by introduction of common symbols for certain vowels. Symbols invented for vowels 'oo' (as it sounds in book) and '00' (as it sounds in hook) straight away reduces 17 alphabets in keyboard. Thus the new key board designed by me (Annexure 2) will have just 31 letters against 63 in the existing key board. The invention totally eliminates the use of shift key in keyboards and makes Tamil learning easier even for foreigners because of simplicity and uniformity in its letters.
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