Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Keyboards

Here are some suggested input methods, but not all notable ones are covered.

Suggested multilingual keyboard on Android: Multiling O keyboard.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kl.ime.oh

Latin

QWERTY

It's created in the 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes. But it's designed for avoiding key stuck in typewriters, so there are better alternatives in computers.

Its main advantage is the overwhelming amount of user, most keyboard shortcuts are designed according to it.

Dvorak

It's created by August Dvorak and William Dealey in 1936.

Its main advantage is efficient.

Dvorak right hand

Dvorak left hand

Colemak

It's created by Shai Coleman and released in 2006.

Its main advantage is convenient.

Here is a comparison of the layouts

Cyrillic

JCUKEN

It's commonly called Windows layout, for Russian.

Chinese

Zhuyin (Bopomofo)

It's created by the Beiyang Government in the 1910s for teaching phonetics. Later it came into computers.

Its main advantage is easy to learn.

It's the most popular in Taiwan.

Pinyin

It's a romanizaton created by many linguists in the 1950s and published by Chinese Government in 1958 for teaching phonetics, being 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, input by making characters up with parts.

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

It's very popular in Hong Kong and Macau.

There are mainly two versions, version 3 and version 5, the former is more popular, but the latter is more reasonable.

Here is the list of parts in Cangjie 3:

Two parts are added in Cangjie 5:

水

尸

Cangjie course:

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/

Simplified Cangjie

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, input by making characters up with parts.

It main advantage is efficient and enabling to input characters without knowing its pronunciation.

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

Here is the list of parts in 86:

Here is the list of parts in Wubi 98:

Here is the list of parts in Wubi New-century:

Wubi course, based on 86:

http://www.wubizigen.net/html/cuchengjiaoxue.html

Wubi code dictionary:

http://www.chaiwubi.com/

Handwriting input

Input by handwriting recognition.

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

Japanese

Romaji

It's a romanizaton created in around 1548. Later it came into computers.

It follows the system's keyboard, usually QWERTY.

Its main advantage is easy to learn.

JIS keyboard

Its main advantage is efficient.

It's the most popular in Japan.

Keitai input

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

Its main advantage is efficient.

It's the most popular in Japan.

Example:

Korean

Dubeolsik

It's derived from typewriter, standardized in 1982.

Its main advantage is easy to learn.

It's the most popular in Korea.

Sebeolsik 390

It's created by Kong Byung Woo and released in 1990.

Its main advantage is covienient.

Sebeolsik Final

The final design of Sebeolsik.

Sebeolsik Noshift

A variant of Sebeolsik, to avoid pressing shift.

Arabic

IBM PC Arabic Keyboard

Mac Arabic Keyboard

Greek

Brahmic

Inscript

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

Bangla

Devanagari

Gujarati

Kannada

Malayalam

Oriya

Punjabi

Tamil

Telugu

Hebrew

Standard Hebrew keyboard