# Language Transliteration

> This add-on allows you to type in your own language. Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Urdu, Punjabi and more.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/language-transliteration](https://chrome-stats.com/d/language-transliteration)

## Overview

- **ID:** `language-transliteration`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Senthil Ponnusamy
- **Category:** language-support,social-communication,other
- **Daily users:** 475
- **Weekly downloads:** 22
- **Rating:** 4.45 / 5 (22 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.6resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-12-14
- **Size:** 83 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/language-transliteration/)
- **Website:** [http://www.senthilprabu.in/](http://www.senthilprabu.in/)

## Description

Language Transliteration is a versatile Chrome extension designed to help you type effortlessly in multiple Indian languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Urdu, and Punjabi. By typing English phonetics, the extension transliterates your input into the selected language, making it easy to communicate in your native script without switching keyboards.

Simply use the keyboard shortcut Alt+L to activate the transliteration tool, select your desired language from the dropdown menu, and start typing in English. Press the SPACE key to convert words into the chosen language's script. If you need to type in English amidst your text, toggle transliteration on and off with Ctrl+G. Once done, the COPY button allows you to copy your text directly to the clipboard. The extension continues to expand language support based on user requests, ensuring a growing and inclusive typing experience.

## Rankings

- #5,209 — Overall
- #220 — Language Support
- #61 — translations
- #88 — typing
- #100 — language
- #129 — station

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise the add-on for its high Arabic transliteration accuracy, overall usability, and broad language support across Arabic, Urdu, Marathi, Greek, Chinese, and Indic languages. It’s valued as a practical tool for typing without a keyboard. Common requests call for more languages, in-place transliteration, better focus and shortcuts, and UX tweaks such as last-language persistence and icons for actions, but there is no widespread negative feedback.

### Pros

- Very accurate transliteration for Arabic, which isn’t typical for similar extensions.
- Well made and easy to use.
- Supports multiple languages and scripts (Arabic, Urdu, Greek, Marathi, Chinese, Indic).
- Useful for users who lack a native keyboard for a language (e.g., Greek).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/language-transliteration)