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Arbore Keyboard Help

A QWERTY-based keyboard for the Arbore language of Southwestern Ethiopia.

Keystrokes

Combining Comma Characters

The key ' (U+0027) is used to append the character ʼ (U+02BC) to a letter. The only exceptions are ď (U+010F) and ť (U+0165), which have precomposed characters for the lowercase letters ONLY.

Base + Modifier = Result
c + ' = cʼ
b + ' = bʼ
d + ' = ď
k + ' = kʼ
š + TAB = sʼ
t + ' = ť
Base + Modifier = Result
C + ' = Cʼ
B + ' = Bʼ
D + ' = Dʼ
K + ' = Kʼ
Š + TAB = Sʼ
T + ' = Tʼ

Non-Latin Characters

The precomposed characters š (U+0161) and Š (U+0160) are also typed using ' (U+0027) for consistency and convenience.

Base + Modifier = Result
; + n = ŋ
: + n = ɲ
ŋ + TAB = ɲ
ɲ + TAB = ŋ
s + ' = š
Base + Modifier = Result
; + N = Ŋ
: + N = Ɲ
Ŋ + TAB = Ɲ
Ɲ + TAB = Ŋ
S + ' = Š

Punctuation

The keys ' and ' have been modified to type the characters ‹ (U+2039) and « (U+00AB) respectively.
Continuing to press the key after the typed character will cycle between › and ‹ or » and «.

Base + Modifier = Result
' = ‹
< + ' = ‹
> + ' = ›
" = «
< + < = «
> + > = »
Base + Modifier = Result
‹ + ' = ›
› + ' = ‹
« + " = »
» + " = «



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