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Macrons are used on all vowels [a, e, i, o, u] in Tongan, so I decided to include all macron notations as 3rd level markings (RALT - letter). Capital letters with macrons are 4rth level markings. This way only two keystrokes are needed for lower case vowels with macrons and three strokes for upper case vowels with macrons. These are commonly used within the orthography, so it is important to simplify their use. | Macrons are used on all vowels [a, e, i, o, u] in Tongan, so I decided to include all macron notations as 3rd level markings (RALT - letter). Capital letters with macrons are 4rth level markings. This way only two keystrokes are needed for lower case vowels with macrons and three strokes for upper case vowels with macrons. These are commonly used within the orthography, so it is important to simplify their use. | ||
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| + | Tongan's last consonant is the fakauʻa, which represents the glottal stop. It is not readily accessible on the traditional English keyboard. When trying to type in the Tongan orthography, many try to replace the fakauʻa with a single quote, but it should instead be represented by an inverted apostrophe (Unicode symbol U+02BB)<ref>https://tau.olunga.to/internet.html</ref>. | ||
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Revision as of 21:37, 27 January 2017
language or the modification of some other layout. Include this in a file entitled README in your new repository, and in a section called "Justification" on the wiki page (see #Where to submit above).
Existing Resources
Keyboards
- Microsoft keyboard Macro for Tongan. [1]
- This is a Windows system Polynesian keyboard. It was originally designed for Tonga, but because other Polynesian languages use the macron, fakamamafa, and fakauʻa. [2]
- Since there are many Polynesian languages contain the same letters as Tongan, I did some research on existing Polynesian keyboards as well. '"
Conclusions Seeing as the official languages of Tonga include both Tongan and English, I will base my keyboard layout on English and add the necessary macron, fakamamafa, and fakauʻa keys as individual keys and 3rd level keys.
Justifications
I chose to base my Tongan keyboard off of the standard English Keyboard. Tongan and English are the official language of Tonga, so English is likely to be the most common language spoken by those who speak Tongan. Additionally, all letters in the Tongan orthography are also found within the English orthography, and therefore the English keyboard, except for the fakauʻa (glottal stop).
Macrons
Macrons are used on all vowels [a, e, i, o, u] in Tongan, so I decided to include all macron notations as 3rd level markings (RALT - letter). Capital letters with macrons are 4rth level markings. This way only two keystrokes are needed for lower case vowels with macrons and three strokes for upper case vowels with macrons. These are commonly used within the orthography, so it is important to simplify their use.
Fakauʻa
Tongan's last consonant is the fakauʻa, which represents the glottal stop. It is not readily accessible on the traditional English keyboard. When trying to type in the Tongan orthography, many try to replace the fakauʻa with a single quote, but it should instead be represented by an inverted apostrophe (Unicode symbol U+02BB)[3].
References