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Input Methods - Keyboards

Hello Polyglots 😀

On this page, we list the most popular and ergonomic keyboards.

Recommendations:

Multilingual keyboard for Android: Multiling O keyboard.
Typing program: ttyper.
Keyboard editor for Windows: Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.
Keyboard editor for macOS: Karabiner-Element.
Keyboard editing guidance for Linux: Creating custom keyboard layouts for X11 using XKB.

Latin

language	type	variant	image

multiple languages	BÉPO
multiple languages	Colemak	United States
multiple languages	Colemak	Colemak-DH EurKEY	ISO: ANSI:
multiple languages	Eumak
multiple languages	QWERTY	Canadian Multilingual Standard
multiple languages	QWERTY	EurKEY
multiple languages	QWERTY	suomalainen monikielinen
multiple languages	QWERTY	United States International
Albanian	QWERTZ	Shqipëri
Berber languages	AZERTY	Tamaziɣt
German, French, Italian, Romansch	QWERTZ	Schweiz
Dutch, French	AZERTY	België
Norwegian, Sámi	QWERTY	norsk med samisk
Czech	QWERTZ	Česko
Danish	QWERTY	Danmark
Dutch	QWERTY	Nederland
English	Workman
English	QWERTY	United Kingdom
Estonian	QWERTY	Eesti
Faroese	QWERTY	Føroyar
Hungarian	QWERTZ	Magyarország	ISO: BAE:
Icelandic	QWERTY	Ísland
Irish	QWERTY	Éire
Italian	QWERTY	Italiana
Polish	QWERTY	Polska
Polish	QWERTZ	Polska
Portuguese	QWERTY	Brasil
Portuguese	QWERTY	Portuguesa
Romanian	QWERTY	România
Slovak	QWERTY	Slovensko
Slovenian	QWERTZ	Slovenija
Spanish	QWERTY	España
Spanish	QWERTY	Latinoamérica
Turkish	QWERTY	Türkiye
Vietnamese	QWERTY	Việt Nam

Cyrillic

JCUKEN

It's commonly called Windows layout, for Russian, and there is a variant of it for Ukranian.

Bulgarian

It's based on QWERTY.

Serbian

It's based on QWERTZ.

Han

Zhuyin (Bopomofo)

It's a set of phonetic notes created by the Beiyang Government in the 1910s. Later it came into computers.

Its main advantage is easy to learn.

It's the most popular in Taiwan.

Pinyin

It's a romanization created by many linguists in the 1950s and published by Government of China in 1958 and has been revised several times. Later it came into computers.

It follows the system's keyboard, usually QWERTY.

Its main advantage is easy to learn.

It's the most popular in China.

Cangjie

It's created by Chu Bong-Foo and named by Chiang Wei-Kuo in 1976, to input Traditional Chinese by making characters up with parts, later it became available for Simplified Chinese, Kanji, Hanja, Hán Nôm.

Mr. Chu waived his copyright for common good.

Its main advantage is efficient, being able to input uncommon characters and to input characters without knowing its pronunciation.

There are mainly two versions, 3 and 5, the latter is more reasonable.

The Cangjie coming with Windows 10 is version 3.

Layout of Cangjie:

Secondary characters (the red are added in Cangjie 5):

The inventor's website:

http://www.cbflabs.com/

Software 倉頡平台 for Windows:

http://www.chinesecj.com/forum/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=193324

Cangjie 5 practice software 倉頡打字通:

http://www.wb98.com/down.htm:

Cangjie course, based on version 3

http://dylansung.tripod.com/methods/cangjie.htm:

Cangjie course in Chinese:

https://zh.wikibooks.org/wiki/%E5%80%89%E9%A0%A1%E8%BC%B8%E5%85%A5%E6%B3%95

Cangjie 3 code dictionary:

http://input.foruto.com/cjdict/Search_1.php

Cangjie 5 code dictionary:

http://www.chinesecj.com/cj5dict/

Cangjie on Linux is available through fcitx or IBus. The package names are fcitx-table-cangjie and ibus-table-cangjie.

Sucheng

A variant of Cangjie, only to input the initial and the final parts and then select from candidates.

Wubi

It's created by Wang Yongmin in 1986, to input Simplified Chinese by making characters up with parts.

Its main advantage is efficient and being able to input characters without knowing its pronunciation.

There are mainly three versions, 86, 98 and New-century. The former the more popular, but the latter the more reasonable.

The Wubi coming with Windows 10 is version 86, but unofficial thesauruses for other Wubi input software are available.

The layout of Wubi 86:

The layout of Wubi 98:

The layout of Wubi New-Century:

Software 极点五笔 for Windows:

http://www.freewb.org/

Wubi practice software 五笔打字通 for 86 and 王码打字通 for 98:

http://www.wb98.com/down.htm

Wubi course, based on version 86:

http://chinesemac.org/wubi/xing.html

Wubi course in Chinese, based on version 86:

http://soft.zol.com.cn/22/224137_all.html

Wubi code dictionary:

http://www.wangma.com.cn/query/wmhz1.asp

Official website:

http://www.wangma.net.cn/

Wubi on Linux is available through fcitx or IBus. The package names are fcitx-table-wubi and ibus-table-wubi.

Handwriting input

To input by handwriting recognition.

Its main advantage is enabling to input characters without knowing its pronunciation (many can show it), and to input uncommon characters.

Japanese

Romaji input

There are several types of Romanization in Japanese, in which the most widely-used is Hepburn, created by James Curtis Hepburn in 1867. Later it came into computers.

It follows the system's keyboard, usually QWERTY.

Its main advantage is easy to learn.

Kana input

Its main advantage is efficient.

It's the most popular in Japan.

Flick input

It's for mobile phones, input by flicking finger from a position to a direction.

Its main advantage is efficient.

It's the most popular in Japan.

Korean

Dubeolsik

Its main advantage is easy to learn.

It's the most popular in Korea.

Sebeolsik Final

Its main advantage is ergonomic. Its main disadvantage is using the number row and frequent need of pressing the Shift key.

Ahnmatae

Its main advantage is easy to learn with clear division of the first consonant, vowel and final consonant. Its main disadvantage is using non-home row frequently.

Official website (currently down):

http://www.ahnmatae.org/

New Sebeolsik

Its main advantage is clear division of the first consonant, vowel and final consonant. Its main disadvantage is burdening the left hand.

Its final version is unsettled yet.

Official blog category:

https://pat.im/category/%ED%95%9C%EA%B8%80%20%EC%9E%90%ED%8C%90/%EC%8B%A0%EC%84%B8%EB%B2%8C%EC%8B%9D

Latest version:

Romaja

There are several types of Romanization in Korean, in which the most widely-used is Revised Romanization, created by the National Academy of the Korean Language in 2000. Later it came into computers.

It follows the system's keyboard, usually QWERTY.

Its main advantage is easy to learn. Its main disadvantage is causing some inconvenience for some words like “Hangeul”.

Arabic

IBM PC Arabic Keyboard

Mac Arabic Keyboard

Greek

It's based on QWERTY.

Brahmic scripts

Inscript

It's a set of keyboards standardized by Government of India in 1986.

Bangla

Devanagari

Gujarati

Kannada

Malayalam

Oriya

Punjabi

Tamil

Telugu

Thai

Kedmanee

It's created for Thai.

Pattachote

It's created by Sarit Pattachote for Thai.

Hebrew

*Author

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 == Latin==
-{| class="wikitable"
-|+
-!name
-!description
-|-
-|QWERTY
-|It's created in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes. But it's designed to avoid key stuck in typewriters, so it provides the possibility for better alternatives in computers.
-Its main advantage is the overwhelming amount of user, most keyboard shortcuts are designed according to it.
-There are a lot of variants of it to input other languages written in Latin script.
-|-
-|Dvorak
-|It's created by August Dvorak and William Dealey in 1936.
-Its main advantage is efficient.
-It also has a right-hand and a left-hand variants.
-|-
-|Colemak
-|It's created by Shai Coleman and released in 2006.
-Its main advantage is convenient and multilingual.
-Official website:
-https://colemak.com/
-Variants include [https://forum.colemak.com/topic/519-rulemak-russian-colemak-layout/ Rulemak] and [https://forum.colemak.com/topic/1443-colemak-greek-version-in-ubuntu/ Greek Colemak].
-|-
-|Workman
-|Its main advantage is convenience.
-Official website:
-http://workmanlayout.org/
-|-
-|French AZERTY
-|The Ministry of Culture wishes to improve the French keyboard.
-new keyboards are suggested
-|-
-|Improved French AZERTY
-|The 26 letters of the alphabet and the numbers do not change place, unlike some other signs such as certain accented vowels, at sign, braces ...
-The point becomes accessible without passing the capital key.
-Accented uppercase letters are also made possible.
-The range of typographic signs is widened, to facilitate the creation without using professional software.
-|-
-|BÉPO
-|There are already many BÉPO keyboards and its supporters say that this is the most logical layout of the keys currently available for the French language.
-The counterpart is that you have to completely learn to write on a keyboard.
-|}
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+|multiple languages
+|[https://eumak.org/ Eumak]
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+|Albanian
+|QWERTZ
+|Shqipëri
+|https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Albanian_keyboard_layout.jpg
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Difference between revisions of "Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Keyboards"

Revision as of 10:54, 25 June 2022

Latin

Cyrillic

JCUKEN

Bulgarian

Serbian

Han

Zhuyin (Bopomofo)

Pinyin

Cangjie

Sucheng

Wubi

Handwriting input

Japanese

Romaji input

Kana input

Flick input

Korean

Dubeolsik

Sebeolsik Final

Ahnmatae

New Sebeolsik

Romaja

Arabic

IBM PC Arabic Keyboard

Mac Arabic Keyboard

Greek

Brahmic scripts

Inscript

Bangla

Devanagari

Gujarati

Kannada

Malayalam

Oriya

Punjabi

Tamil

Telugu

Thai

Kedmanee

Pattachote

Hebrew

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