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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