Hindi and Devanagari Morse Code
Devanagari, the script of Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit, is sent with a telegraph code in which each sign becomes one to three Latin letters in International Morse. Type in Devanagari to see and hear it.
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Pause for a letter gap, pause longer for a word gap. On a computer the space bar works too. Timing follows the speed in Settings.
Decode Morse from sound or a picture
Play a Morse tone near the microphone, or open a recording. The decoder finds the pitch and the speed by itself and works best on a clean tone between 300 and 1500 Hz. An image works when the dots and dashes are solid shapes on a plain background, like a screenshot or a printed card. Nothing is uploaded: everything is processed on your device.
Set overall speed lower than letter speed for Farnsworth timing: letters stay quick, the gaps get longer. This is how most people learn.
Morse code chart
Tap any character to hear it.
Signs and the letters they are sent as
Procedural signals (prosigns)
Sent as one signal with no gap between the letters. Type them in angle brackets, like <SK>.
How it works
The code was published by the linguist Ashok Kelkar in 1967 as a telegraph code for Marathi. Each consonant or vowel sign is written as Latin letters: क is K, ख is EK, स् (with virama) is TS, and the vowel sign ा is A. The letters are then sent in ordinary International Morse, so any operator can send it. The translator shows each Devanagari sign under its letters.
Limits
The table lists े and ो twice with different letters, so the second forms (likely ै and ौ) are left out. Signs not in the table are sent romanised. Other telegraph codes for Indian languages have been proposed, and there are variations of this one.
Tables checked against their published sources on 25 September 2026.
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