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IPA Unicode 1.0.5 Keyman Keyboard

Martin Hosken,
SIL Non-Roman Script Initiative (NRSI)

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Fonts

Three font families are included in this package.  These fonts are all licensed under the SIL Open Font License (FAQ).

Doulos SIL

The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics optimally.

Doulos is very similar to Times/Times New Roman, but only has a single face - regular. It is intended for use alongside other Times-like fonts where a range of styles (italic, bold) are not needed.

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Charis SIL

Charis is similar to Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed specifically for laser printers. It is highly readable and holds up well in less-than-ideal reproduction environments. It also has a full set of styles - regular, italic, bold, bold italic - and so is more useful in general publishing than Doulos SIL. Charis is a serif, proportionally-spaced font optimized for readability in long printed documents.

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Gentium

Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode.

The design is intended to be highly readable, reasonably compact, and visually attractive. The additional ‘extended’ Latin letters are designed to naturally harmonize with the traditional 26 ones. Diacritics are treated with careful thought and attention to their use. Gentium also supports both ancient and modern Greek, including a number of alternate forms. These fonts were originally the product of two years of research and study by the designer at the University of Reading, England, as part of an MA program in Typeface Design.

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Keyboard Layout

The keyboard layout is described in terms of an IPA chart rather than a keyboard. This is because many base characters are typed as a sequence of a letter followed by one of <, > or = which are characters used to change a base character to another base character. Diacritics are typed as sequences of an appropriate key.

 

 

Bilabial

Labio-dental

Dental

Alveolar

Post-alveolar

Retro-flex

Palatal

Velar

Uvular

Pharyngeal

Glottal

Plosive

p

p

 

 

t{

t

t

 

 

ʈ

t<

c

c

k

k

q

q

 

 

ʔ

?=

 

b

b

 

 

d{

d

d

 

 

ɖ

d<

ɟ

j=

ɡ

g<

ɢ

G=

 

 

 

 

Nasal

m

m

ɱ

m>

n{

n

n

 

 

ɳ

n<

ɲ

n=

ŋ

n>

ɴ

N=

 

 

 

 

Trill

ʙ

B=

 

 

 

 

r

r

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ʀ

R=

 

 

 

 

Flap

 

 

 

 

 

 

ɾ

r>

 

 

ɽ

r<

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fricative

ɸ

f=

f

f

θ

t=

s

s

ʃ

s=

ʂ

s<

ç

c=

x

x

χ

x=

ħ

h>

h

h

 

β

b=

v

v

ð

d=

z

z

ʒ

z=

ʐ

z<

ʝ

j<

ɣ

g=

ʁ

R>

ʕ

?<

ɦ

h<

Lateral Fricative

 

 

 

 

 

 

ɬ

l=

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ɮ

l>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approx.

 

 

ʋ

v=

 

 

ɹ

r=

 

 

ɻ

R<

j

j

ɰ

w>

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lateral Approx.

 

 

 

 

l{

l

l

 

 

ɭ

l<

ʎ

L<

ʟ

L=

 

 

 

 

 

 

Implosive

ɓ

b>

 

 

 

 

ɗ

d>

 

 

 

 

ʄ

j>

ɠ

g>

ʛ

G>

 

 

 

 

 

ʍ

w=

Vl. Labial-Velar Approximant

ʘ

p=

Bilabial click

w

w

Vd. Labial-Velar Approximant

ǀ

!<

Dental click

ɥ

h=

Vl. Labial-Palatal Approximant

ǃ

!

(Post-)alveolar click

ɕ

c<

Vl. alveolopalatal fricative

ǂ

!=

Palatoalveolar click

ʑ

z>

Vd. alveolopalatal fricative

ǁ

!>

Alveolar lateral click

ɧ

H>

Simultaneous S and x

ʡ

Q=

Vd. epiglottal Plosive

ɺ

L>

Vd. alveolar lateral flap

ʜ

H=

Vl. epiglottal fricative

 

 

 

ʢ

Q<

Vd. epiglottal fricative

 

Vowels

Front

Central

Back

Close

i

i

y

y

ɨ

I=

ʉ

U=

ɯ

u=

u

u

Near-close

ɪ

i=

ʏ

y=

 

 

 

 

 

 

ʊ

u<

Close-mid

e

e

ø

o>

ɘ

E=

ɵ

O=

ɤ

O>

o

o

Mid

 

 

 

 

 

ə

e=

 

 

 

 

 

Open-mid

ɛ

e<

œ

E<

ɜ

e>

ɞ

O<

ʌ

u>

ɔ

o<

Near-open

æ

a<

 

 

 

ɐ

a>

 

 

 

 

 

Open

a

a

ɶ

E>

 

 

 

 

ɑ

a=

ɒ

o=

 

 

Diacritics

 

Suprasegmentals

h^

Aspirated

 

:

Long

w^

Labialised

 

::

Half long

j^

Palatalised

 

eːː

:::

Extra long

g=^

Velarised

 

" " "

Extra short

?<^

Pharyngealised

 

ˈ

}

Primary stress

ⁿk

n^

Pre/post nasalised

 

ˌ

}}

Secondary stress

l^

Lateral release

 

.

.

Syllable break

~

Nasalised

 

|

.<

Minor group: foot

ɫ

~~

Velar/Pharyngealised

 

.=

Major group

[[

Rhoticity

 

#==

Linking - no break

]]

Ejective

 

#>>

Rising intonation

]]]

Unreleased

 

#<<

Falling intonation

$

Syllabic

 

#<

Downstep

$$

Non-syllabic

 

#>

Upstep

$$$

Creaky

 

Diacritic tone marks

%

Voiceless

 

@4

Extra high tone

%%

Voiced

 

@3

High tone

%%%

Breathy

 

@2

Mid tone

Diacritics

 

@1

Low tone

{

Dental

 

@0

Extra low tone

{{

Apical

 

@31

Falling tone

{{{

Laminal

 

@13

Rising tone

{{{{

Linguo-labial

 

Tone Letters and Numbers

"

Centralised

 

˦

#3 (0-4)

Tone letter

" "

Mid centralised

 

˥˩

#40

Tone glide

k͡p

#& or @&

Double articulation / affricate1

 

³

3^ (0-9)

superscript number

+

Advanced

 

-^

superscript hyphen

_

Retracted

 

 

++

Raised

 

 

__

Lowered

 

 

+++

+ATR

 

 

___

-ATR

 

 

++++

More rounded

 

 

____

Less rounded

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] Typed between the characters. Thus k#&p.

 

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