How to type Nepali in English letters

Write the word the way it sounds. Small and capital letters give different letters, so t is त and T is ट. Tap any box to add it to the input.

Common words

Vowels (स्वर)

Consonants (व्यञ्जन)

Signs

Handy rules

• aa or A gives the long ा: naam नाम
• ii/ee/I give ी, uu/oo/U give ू: paanii पानी
• Two consonants together join on their own: dharma धर्म, prem प्रेम
• M gives ं and ~ gives ँ: saMsaar संसार, chaa~da चाँद
• Put \ after a word to end it with ्: bhagavaan\ भगवान्
• Full stop . gives । and .. gives ॥
• Keep English words as they are inside { }: {Facebook} ma post Facebook मा पोस्ट
• T D N Sh are ट ड ण ष; t d n sh are त द न श

Preeti and Unicode, in short

Preeti is an old Nepali font. It shows Nepali shapes on top of English keys, so the text only looks right when the Preeti font is picked. Unicode works everywhere: phones, Facebook, Google search and websites.

• Preeti → Unicode: copy text from an old Word file (in the Preeti font) and paste it here. You get clean Unicode to post anywhere.
• Unicode → Preeti: paste Unicode Nepali, copy the result, paste it in Word and choose the Preeti font.
• The Preeti output looks like random English letters here unless the Preeti font is on your computer. That is normal.
• Rare joined letters in some old files may need a small manual fix after converting.