Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Keyboards

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Input Methods - Keyboards

Hello Polyglots 😀

Having a keyboard suitable for the language you are learning is essential to be able to write comfortably.

On this page, we list the most popular input systems and keyboards sorted by language.

This page has a sibling: https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Introduction-to-Writing-Systems

Recommendations:

Multilingual keyboard for Android: Multiling O keyboard.
Input method framework for Linux: Fcitx.
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.

Arabic

language	type	variant	image

Arabic	ErgoArabic
Arabic	IBM
Arabic	Macintosh
Arabic	OLPC
Persian
Uighur
Urdu	CRULP
Uzbek	OLPC

ErgoArabic https://github.com/darkstego/ergoarabic

Armenian

language	type	variant	image

Armenian

Bengali

language	type	variant

multiple languages	InScript	বাংলা

Cyrillic

language	type	variant

multiple languages	Colemak	Rulemak
Azerbaijani	ЈҮУКЕН
Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian	RUU
Bashkir	ЙЦУКЕН	Башҡортса
Belarusian	ЙЦУКЕН	беларускі
Bulgarian	ЯВЕРТЪ
Kazakh	ЙЦУКЕН	қазақша
Kyrgyz	ЙЦУКЕН	кыргызча
Macedonian	ЉЊЕРТЅ
Mongolian	ФЦУЖЭН
Russian	ЙЦУКЕН	русский
Serbian	ЉЊЕРТЗ
Tajiki	ЙҚУКЕН	тоҷикӣ
Tatar	ЙӨУКЕН
Ukrainian	ЙЦУКЕН	українська
Uzbek	ЙЦУКЕН	ўзбекча
Yakut	ЙЦУКЕН	сахалыы

Rulemak: Russian Colemak layout https://forum.colemak.com/topic/519-rulemak-russian-colemak-layout/
RUU https://wiki.opennet.ru/RUU

Devanagari

language	type	variant

multiple languages	InScript	देवनागरी

Ge'ez

language	type	variant	image

Amharic

Georgian

language	type	variant	image

Georgian	ქწერტყ

Greek

language	type	variant

Greek	Colemak	ελληνικά
Greek	QWERTY	ελληνικά

Colemak Greek Version in Ubuntu https://forum.colemak.com/topic/1443-colemak-greek-version-in-ubuntu/

Gujarati

language	type	variant

Gujarati	Inscript	ગુજરાતી

Gurmukhi

language	type	variant

Punjabi, Sindhi	Inscript	ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ

Han

language	type	variant

Chinese	QWERTY 拼音
Chinese	五笔	86
Chinese	五笔	98
Chinese	五笔	新世纪
Chinese	注音
Chinese	倉頡	三
Chinese	倉頡	五

五笔
- 无痛学习王码五笔字型输入法完全教程 https://soft.zol.com.cn/22/224137_all.html
- 五笔字型 For Speakers of English https://chinesemac.org/wubi/xing.html
- 极点五笔 http://www.freewb.org/
- 五笔字型编码查询在线查询 http://www.wangma.com.cn/query/wmhz1.asp
- 五笔打字通 / 王码打字通 http://www.wb98.com/down.htm

倉頡
- 倉頡輸入法 - 維基教科書 https://zh.wikibooks.org/wiki/%E5%80%89%E9%A0%A1%E8%BC%B8%E5%85%A5%E6%B3%95
- Cangjie method https://www.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Cangjie_method
- 倉頡平台2012 https://www.chinesecj.com/forum/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2596
- 倉頡大字典 https://www.chinesecj.com/cjdict/
- Follow Me倉頡字典 http://input.foruto.com/cccls/cjzd.html
- 仓颉打字通 http://www.wb98.com/down.htm

Hanifi Rohingya

language	type	variant	image

Rohingya

Hebrew

language	type	variant	image

Hebrew

Japanese

language	type	variant	image

Japanese	QWERTY ローマ字
Japanese	フリック
Japanese	仮名

Javanese

language	type	variant	image

Javanese

Khmer

language	type	variant	image

Khmer

Kannada

language	type	variant

Kannada	InScript	ಕನ್ನಡ

Korean

language	type	variant

Korean	QWERTY 로마자
Korean	두벌식
Korean	신세벌식	P2
Korean	세벌식	최종
Korean	안마태

신세벌식
- 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

Lao

language	type	variant	image

Lao

Latin

language	type	variant	image

multiple languages	BÉPO
multiple languages	Colemak	United States
multiple languages	Colemak	Colemak-DH	ISO: ANSI:
multiple languages	Colemak	Colemak-DH EurKEY	ISO: ANSI:
multiple languages	Dvorak	International
multiple languages	QWERTY	Canadian Multilingual Standard
multiple languages	QWERTY	Eumak
multiple languages	QWERTY	EurKEY
multiple languages	QWERTY	suomalainen monikielinen
multiple languages	QWERTY	United States International
Berber languages	AZERTY	Tamaziɣt
German, French, Italian, Romansch	QWERTZ	Schweiz
Dutch, French	AZERTY	België
Norwegian, Sámi languages	QWERTY	norsk med samisk
Albanian	QWERTZ	shqip
Czech	QWERTZ	český
Danish	QWERTY	dansk
Dutch	QWERTY	Nederlands
multiple languages	Dvorak	United Kingdom
English	Norman
English	Workman
English	QWERTY	English (United Kingdom)
English	QWERTY	English (United States)
Estonian	QWERTY	eesti
Faroese	QWERTY	føroyskt
French	AZERTY	français (Belgique)
French	AZERTY	français (France)
French	AZERTY	français (Canada)
Hungarian	QWERTZ	magyar	ISO: BAE:
Icelandic	QWERTY	íslenska
Irish	QWERTY	Gaeilge
Italian	QWERTY	italiano
Norwegian	QWERTY	norsk
Polish	QWERTY	polszczyzna
Polish	QWERTZ	polszczyzna
Portuguese	QWERTY	português (Brasil)
Portuguese	QWERTY	português (Portuguesa)
Romanian	QWERTY	românesc
Slovak	QWERTY	slovenčina
Slovenian	QWERTZ	slovénščina
Spanish	QWERTY	español (España)
Spanish	QWERTY	español (Latinoamérica)
Swedish	Dvorak	Svorak
Turkish	FGĞIOD
Turkish	QWERTY	Türkçe
Vietnamese	QWERTY	tiếng Việt