It takes the place of the apostrophe key in an English keyboard, making it very accessible. As you have learned this key allows us to type conjuncts without remembering any codes. The first key to familiarize is the VIRAMA accent (called halant in English), which looks like ્ on the layout. I will explain the placement of only certain special keys here. There are a certain few exceptions to the phonetic placements because there are more Gujarati consonants than English consonants, but these can be learned easily and need no discussion. I also remapped the Gujarati numerals to coincide with the English numerals. The phonetic consonants are placed as according to Images 1 and 2 above. Image 3: Hindi Phonetic Keyboard Layout - Alt State Special Keys Placement
