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‎Existing Resources

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‎Diacritic Letters

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−	~~[[Category: Central Kurdish]] [[Category: Keyboard layouts]]~~
	The Persian-based orthography for Sorani has 33 letters. It has most of these in common with Farsi and Arabic scripts, which are two dominant languages in most regions where Sorani is spoken. There are an additional 14 letters in Arabic that do not exist in the Sorani script; adding these letters gives us a Sorani keyboard that can double up as an Arabic one (as well as a Farsi one).		The Persian-based orthography for Sorani has 33 letters. It has most of these in common with Farsi and Arabic scripts, which are two dominant languages in most regions where Sorani is spoken. There are an additional 14 letters in Arabic that do not exist in the Sorani script; adding these letters gives us a Sorani keyboard that can double up as an Arabic one (as well as a Farsi one).

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	6. Click on the '+' icon in the bottom left. Find the name of the keyboard, then double click.		6. Click on the '+' icon in the bottom left. Find the name of the keyboard, then double click.
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	[[File:Keyboard_Layout_ckb_Sorani.png]]		[[File:Keyboard_Layout_ckb_Sorani.png]]
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		+	{{comment\|My intention in the instructions (which I see now wasn't very clear) was for the layout to be documented in the same way as the Spanish layout—not as a screenshot, but using wiki markup. —Jonathan}}

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 Sorani layout designs have somewhat converged to employing the QWERTY phonetic layout and adding in a flurry of non-Kurdish Arabic letters. However, they all come with subtle differences:
-* Though all use Shift + another key for diacritic letters, the mapping of these letters varies, and some employ other ways alongside Shift to type diacritic letters.
+* Though all use Shift + another key for diacritic letters, the mapping of these letters varies, and some employ other ways alongside Shift to type them.
 * Some keyboards use parentheses that I call flipped, i.e. when you press the bracket/parentheses key on the right, instead of getting a bracket that opens to the left like you would in an LTR script, you get one opening to the right.

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	This is not a change that has been implemented, because a correct implementation in Ukelele was not possible. Nonetheless, it is something that may be worth looking into. The markup for the letters at 'h' and 'u' can be changed to look "more Kurdish" by displaying their initial or medial forms. Technically, those two letters can never end a word in Sorani, so their final forms never appear.		This is not a change that has been implemented, because a correct implementation in Ukelele was not possible. Nonetheless, it is something that may be worth looking into. The markup for the letters at 'h' and 'u' can be changed to look "more Kurdish" by displaying their initial or medial forms. Technically, those two letters can never end a word in Sorani, so their final forms never appear.
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		+	== Installation ==
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		+	1. Click on the XML file included in this repo. It should open it in a new tab.
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		+	2. Right click in the new tab and select "Save As..." Save it to a preferred location.
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		+	3. Navigate to the file using Finder and right-click, then select "Open With..."
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		+	4. If your device has a Keyboard Installer, use that. It should be straightforward. If your device does not have a Keyboard Installer, download Ukelele and use it instead.
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		+	5. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources.
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		+	6. Click on the '+' icon in the bottom left. Find the name of the keyboard, then double click.

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 Because of these two points, most currently-existing layouts developed for Sorani also contain the remaining Arabic letters. Having a keyboard that can function well for both Sorani and Arabic is incredibly useful in Iraqi Kurdistan given the overlap between the two language communities. These layouts are not without their problems, though, so for this lab I will try to develop a better version of an ''Arabo-Sorani'' keyboard. More ambitiously, I will try to take this a step further and see if it is possible to implement a usable ''Farso-Arabo-Sorani'' keyboard.
-The layout is shown below:
+The layout, with its respective first, second, and third rows, are shown below:
 [[File:Keyboard_Layout_ckb_Sorani.png]]

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 The layout is shown below:
-[File:Keyboard Layout ckb Sorani.png]
+[File:Keyboard_Layout_ckb_Sorani.png]
 == Existing Resources ==

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	The layout is shown below:		The layout is shown below:
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		+	[File:Keyboard Layout ckb Sorani.png]

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	Because of these two points, most currently-existing layouts developed for Sorani also contain the remaining Arabic letters. Having a keyboard that can function well for both Sorani and Arabic is incredibly useful in Iraqi Kurdistan given the overlap between the two language communities. These layouts are not without their problems, though, so for this lab I will try to develop a better version of an ''Arabo-Sorani'' keyboard. More ambitiously, I will try to take this a step further and see if it is possible to implement a usable ''Farso-Arabo-Sorani'' keyboard.		Because of these two points, most currently-existing layouts developed for Sorani also contain the remaining Arabic letters. Having a keyboard that can function well for both Sorani and Arabic is incredibly useful in Iraqi Kurdistan given the overlap between the two language communities. These layouts are not without their problems, though, so for this lab I will try to develop a better version of an ''Arabo-Sorani'' keyboard. More ambitiously, I will try to take this a step further and see if it is possible to implement a usable ''Farso-Arabo-Sorani'' keyboard.
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		+	The layout is shown below:

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 * There are no empty keys in the uppercase; where Shift+'q' would print nothing in Branah, this layout prints the same thing as 'q.' This design for redundancy may be more user-friendly. Another empty key that is replaced is Shift+'h' with 'ح'. There are two ways to type 'ح' in this layout, because (1) Shift+'i' is what most keyboards have and users may be accustomed to it, and (2) Shift+'h' might be the more "natural option" and is the one implemented in the MacOS layout.
-* The position of ێ is moved from Shift+'y' to Shift+'e'. In Latin script, ێ is ê, so putting it there makes more sense (MacOS layout does the same). Shift+'y' gets the content of Shift+'e', which is the Arabic ي. This makes sense because 'y' prints
+* The position of ێ is moved from Shift+'y' to Shift+'e'. In Latin script, ێ is ê, so putting it there makes more sense (MacOS layout does the same). Shift+'y' gets the content of Shift+'e', which is the Arabic ي. This makes sense because 'y' prints ى, which is basically ي without diacritics.
 === Brackets and Parentheses ===