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Burushaski Girminas - Roman/latin Keyboard Help

Burushaski Orthography and Keyboard

Burushaski  orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the Burushaski  language. This particular orthography has been proposed and agreed upon by representatives of all three varieties of Burushaski  of Hunza, Yasin and Nagar. The unique characters of Burushaski, mostly retro-flexes and diacritic vowels have been explained in this document.

Burushaski  Girminas is latin/Roman based keyboard developed for Burusho Maʰraka , and it is available for free.


 

Typing characters with Burushaski  Girminas Keyboard (Desktop, Laptop)

Please  download the Burushaski  Girminas for your desktop or laptop and follow the following chart to learn the Burushaski Keyboard and the key combination.

Burushaski Girminas Writing Guide

For diacritic vowels with tilde, there is only one rule -- on your keyboard press tilde (~)  followed by your desired vowel.  The tilde is used for nasalized vowels in Burushaski  in very limited situations.                   


Vowels (tilde)
ã  
 ẽ
ĩ 
õ 
ũ 
Key Combinations
~   a
~ e
~ i
~ o
~ u 

For diacritic vowels with accute (◌́) just press Comma (,) followed by required vowels.


Vowels (Accute)
á  
 é
í 
ó
ú 
Key Combinations
,   a
, e
, i
, o
, u 

For diacritic long vowels instead of using macron (◌̄) just double the vowels.                          


Vowels (long)
aa
ee
ii
oo
uu 
Key Combinations
aa
ee
ii
oo
uu

Burushaski  Roman Orthography recommendation is to double the vowels.

Please follow the key combinations for the extra Burushaski  characters. All accented letters will be the output of comma + the required letters, and all the dot characters will be the output of dot + consonants.


Output
� 
ʰ
Input
dot + c
dot + d
dot + g dot + h
dot + s

Output
Ṭ 
Input
dot + n
dot + t
dot + y dot + z

Output
Ć
Ś
Input
comma + c
comma + s

For capitalization of the characters, use /Shif Key/ and then input the required key combinations with the same rule above. The rest of the alphabets are same as English..

 

Burushaski   orthography

Following is the detail Burushaski  Latin/Roman based orthography, including Burushaski  words and IPA pronunciation.

Alphabets

Bur

IPA

Alphabets

Bur

IPA

a

Baltit

a

aa

aamalla

A:

e

epai

ɛ

ee

eemali

ɛ:

i

ikhar

i

ii

iilji

I:

o

opai

o

oo

oogirmin

O:

u

urdu

u

uu

uulikal

U:

ã / ẽ / ĩ / õ / ũ

gũll


ã / ẽ / ĩ / õ / ũ

p

pan

p

b

bar

b

d

dimanaas

d

t

terek

t

iki

ʈ

aaṅ

ɖ

k

katar 

k

g

Ganiś   

g

q

qau

q

ć

Ćillaas  

j

ja

c

capan

ts

at, c̣uk

ʈʂ

x

xakin

ġ

ġamu

ɣ

h

Hunza

h

s

sar 

s

z

zarar

z

apik

ʂ

akun

ʐ

ś

śoqum

ʃ

m

mall

m

n

Nagar 

n

phai

ŋ

l

lip

l

ll

llaman

ɫ̩

r

ruṅ, ruru

r

ʰ

Baʰt

 

w

wáṭ

w

hr

Daʰrt


ba


y

Yasin

j

 

 

 

           
ch chan true chor early  
ćh ćhar sound, voice ćhap meat  
c̣h c̣hen sparrow c̣ham hungry  
kh kheen time khán fort  
ph phallo grain phariṣ duck  
th thap night thalla slowly  
ṭh Paṭhan Paṭhan ṭhák shake  

 .

Using the keyboard on touch devices

For android users, please download the Burushaski  Girminas App from Play Store. Click the link or the icon below to download. For the users of other operating system, please read the instructions below.

 Please download here:  Burushaski  Girminas

For iPhone and iPad, install the Keyman App from App Store. Once installed, go to the keyboard settings of keyman and search for the Burushaski  Girminas. From the list, add Burushaski  Girminas. Remember, there is no seperate iOS App. Keyman engine already includes Burushaski  Girminas.

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