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SIL Yi Keyboard Help

Yi keyboard layout using pinyin input for typing standard Nuosu Yi characters and basic full-width punctuation. Text generated will be in utf-8 encoding, and can be viewed with a font such as Nuosu SIL. Type a Nuosu Yi syllable in roman letters, then SPACE to convert to the syllabary character. Punctuation is full-width - note the keystrokes at the bottom of the list for typing things like book title brackets and left and right Chinese quotation marks. For instance, typing two left angle brackets in a row will produce a Chinese left double book title bracket. Typing a backslash produces a Chinese dunhao. Typing two left single quotes in a row produces a full-width left double quotation mark.

Typing Yi syllabes

To type a Yi syllable, type the pinyin romanization for that syllable, followed by a space.

  - b p bb nb hm m f v d t dd nd hn n hl l g k gg mg hx ng h w z c zz nz s ss zh ch rr nr sh r j q jj nj ny x y
it ꀀ                  
ix                    
i                    
ip                      
iet                                                      
iex                
ie                
iep                      
at                  
ax              
a              
ap                
uot                                                                
uox              
uo              
uop                            
ot            
ox
o    
op
et                                                                        
ex                      
e                        
ep                            
ut                    
ux              
u              
up              
urx                  
ur                  
yt                                  
yx                                
y                                
yp                                
yrx                                        
yr                                        

Press w then space to type , the syllable iteration mark (used to reduplicate a preceding syllable).

Typing punctuation

Keys Character Description
! Fullwidth exclamation mark
? Fullwidth question mark
( Fullwidth left parenthesis
) Fullwidth right parenthesis
[ Fullwidth left square bracket
] Fullwidth right square bracket
| Fullwidth vertical line
{ Fullwidth left curly bracket
} Fullwidth right curly bracket
: Fullwidth colon
; Fullwidth semicolon
/ Fullwidth solidus
space   Ideographic space
. Ideographic full stop (juhao)
.. · Middle separator dot
... Horizontal ellipsis
\ Ideographic comma (dunhao)
, Fullwidth comma
< Left angle bracket
> Right angle bracket
<< Left double angle bracket
>> Right double angle bracket
` Left single quotation mark
' Right single quotation mark
`` Left double quotation mark
'' Right double quotation mark
-- joining dash
--- word breaking dash

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