Baraha

for the village in Nepal see Baraha, Nepal

Baraha

Developer(s)	Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan
Stable release	8.0 / April 1, 2009
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Word processor
License	Freeware
Website	http://www.baraha.com/

Baraha is a word processing application for creating documents in Indian languages. It was developed by Sheshadrivasu Chandrashekaran with an intention to provide a freeware to enable and encourage Indians use their native languages on the computers. Baraha can be effectively used for creating documents, sending emails and publishing web pages. Baraha uses a transliteration scheme, which allows the user to write any Indian language in English and later convert it to the respective language.

Languages supported

Baraha 7.0 supports Kannada, Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Bengali, and Oriya scripts. The following table shows the languages supported.

Script	Languages
Kannada	Kannada, Konkani, Tulu, Kodava
Devanagari	Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, Konkani, Kashmiri, Sindhi
Tamil	Tamil
Telugu	Telugu
Malayalam	Malayalam
Gujarati	Gujarati
Gurumukhi	Punjabi
Bengali	Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri
Oriya	Oriya

External links

• Home page of Baraha
• PDF on Baraha at Technology Development for Indian Languages
• Baraha and its creator