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Marathi Typing Tool
This free Marathi typing tool turns Marathi written in English letters into clean Devanagari — maze nav ram aahe becomes माझे नाव राम आहे. It includes the letters Marathi needs beyond Hindi, like ळ and ॲ, plus a full on-screen keyboard.
Words convert as you press Space. In Marathi typing, z stands for झ — maze becomes माझे.
How to use this Marathi typing tool
- Type your Marathi words in English letters in the yellow box, the way they sound: maze nav.
- Press Space after a word and it converts into Devanagari. The Convert button converts everything at once.
- Remember the Marathi habit: z stands for झ, so maza gives माझा.
- For the letter ळ, type a capital L (La) or tap it on the keyboard tab.
- Check your text in the big box and the large preview, then copy it or download it as a .txt file.
How it works — the typing scheme
Marathi shares the Devanagari script with Hindi, so the scheme below works the same way: consonants match by sound, vowels stand alone at the start of a word and become signs after consonants, and a consonant at the end of a word drops its vowel, so nav-style words end cleanly. Two Marathi habits make this tool different from a Hindi one. First, in Marathi typing the letter z stands for झ — every Marathi speaker types maza for माझा — while jh also gives झ. Second, Marathi has the extra consonant ळ, typed as a capital L, which Hindi does not use at all.
Everyday Marathi words are matched first from a common-words list, so maze (माझे), maza (माझा), nav (नाव) and kay (काय) always come out in their natural spellings. The keyboard tab carries the extra Marathi letters ळ and ॲ as their own keys, next to all the usual Devanagari letters, signs and digits.
| You type | At the start of a word | After a consonant (sign) |
|---|---|---|
| a | अ | — (no sign) |
| aa | आ | ा |
| i | इ | ि |
| ee | ई | ी |
| u | उ | ु |
| oo | ऊ | ू |
| e | ए | े |
| ai | ऐ | ै |
| o | ओ | ो |
| au | औ | ौ |
| ri | ऋ | ृ |
| You type | Letter | You type | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| ka | क | na | न |
| kha | ख | pa | प |
| ga | ग | pha | फ |
| gha | घ | ba | ब |
| nga | ङ | bha | भ |
| cha | च | ma | म |
| chha | छ | ya | य |
| ja | ज | ra | र |
| jha | झ | la | ल |
| nya | ञ | va | व |
| Ta | ट | sha | श |
| Tha | ठ | Sha | ष |
| Da | ड | sa | स |
| Dha | ढ | ha | ह |
| Na | ण | ksha | क्ष |
| ta | त | gya | ज्ञ |
| tha | थ | za | झ |
| da | द | Ra | ड़ |
| dha | ध | La | ळ |
| Special rule | You get | Note |
|---|---|---|
| M (capital M) | ं | Anusvara, the dot sound — haM = हं |
| ' (apostrophe) | ् | Halant — cuts the vowel: k'ta = क्त |
| word ending | (no sign) | A consonant at the end of a word drops its vowel sound |
The letter ॲ (and its sign ॅ, the chandrakala) is used in Marathi for English loanwords, so a word borrowed from English keeps its open "a" sound: बॅट for "bat". You will find ॲ on the keyboard tab. Type a capital M for the anusvara dot (ं), and an apostrophe to force a halant between letters. Numbers you type stay as 0–9; the keyboard also offers the Devanagari digits ०–९.
Worked example
Type this sentence in the yellow box: maze nav ram aahe.
Step 1: maze is an everyday Marathi word, matched whole — माझे. (The scheme alone agrees: m + a = म, z = झ, झ + e = माझे.)
Step 2: nav is matched whole too — नाव, "name".
Step 3: ram — the name is spelled राम in Marathi too, and it is matched as an everyday word.
Step 4: aahe: aa stands alone as आ, h + e gives हे — आहे.
The result reads माझे नाव राम आहे — "my name is Ram". The "Type a sample" button produces the same sentence for you.
Marathi and the Devanagari script
Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra and is spoken by more than 80 million people, making it one of the most spoken languages in the world. It is written in the Balbodh style of Devanagari — the same script as Hindi, with the same hanging headline and the same letter order — so anyone who reads Hindi can read Marathi letters, even when the words differ. Older Marathi was also written in the cursive Modi script, but Devanagari is the standard today.
Two letters mark Marathi out. The consonant ळ, a curled-tongue "la", appears in everyday words like काळ (time, black) and बाळ (child), and has no Hindi equivalent. This tool includes ळ and ॲ on both the scheme and the keyboard, so Marathi text comes out complete.
FAQ
How does Marathi typing work on this page?
Type Marathi words in English letters in the yellow box, as they sound, and press Space after each word to convert it into Devanagari. The tool follows the scheme on this page, with Marathi habits built in: z stands for झ, a capital L gives the Marathi letter ळ, and everyday words like maze, maza, nav and kay are matched whole from a common-words list. You can also switch to the keyboard tab and tap exact letters.
Why does "z" give झ in Marathi?
It is the long-standing habit of Marathi typing. The sound झ begins some of the most common Marathi words — माझा (my), माझे (my, neuter), तुझा (your) — and generations of typists have written it with the single key z instead of jh. This tool follows that habit, so maza becomes माझा. The two-letter jh gives झ as well, for anyone used to the Hindi scheme.
How do I type the Marathi letter ळ?
Type a capital L where the sound comes: La gives ळा, and the word kaaL (काळ) shows it at the end of a word. On the keyboard tab, ळ has its own key in the last consonant row. Note the difference from the ordinary ल (la): काळ with ळ means time or black, while काल with ल is a different word — the letter matters.
What is the letter ॲ used for?
The letter ॲ and its sign ॅ (called chandrakala) write the open "a" sound in words Marathi has borrowed from English, so they do not come out sounding like Hindi. बॅट (bat), बँक (bank) and कॉलेज (college) all use it. You will find ॲ on the keyboard tab. In the English-letters box, everyday borrowed words still convert by the normal scheme, and you can fix the vowel afterwards on the keyboard if a word needs the chandrakala.
How is this different from the Hindi typing tool?
The script and most of the scheme are the same, because Marathi and Hindi share Devanagari. The differences are the ones Marathi speakers actually need: z stands for झ, the letter ळ exists here (typed La), the keyboard carries ॲ, and the common-words list holds Marathi words like maze, maza, nav and kay instead of Hindi ones. A Hindi tool would turn maza into माज़ा; this one gives माझा.
Can I download or copy my Marathi text?
Yes. Copy places the text on your clipboard for pasting into WhatsApp, a document or a social media post, and Download .txt saves it as a UTF-8 text file so the Devanagari letters stay correct. Everything runs in your browser — nothing you type is sent to a server or stored, and the tool is free with no sign-up.