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==Justification==
 
==Justification==

Revision as of 21:22, 1 February 2017


Layout

Miyako-keyboard-layout.jpg

Justification

In creating a keyboard layout for Miyako, my goals were as follows:

  • Not rely on knowledge of the Roman alphabet/the English keyboard layout
  • Not rely on knowledge of the Japanese keyboard layout
  • Minimise the number of keystrokes required to produce each character

Questions of particular concern included:

  • How to handle glides like きゃ
  • How to handle geminate consonants like っざ
  • How to handle ん
  • How to handle character combinations like ん゜な


Existing Resources

There is an Android keyboard layout for Okinawan. I have not tried it, but based on the description and screenshots posted, it seems to be a standard Japanese flick keyboard with conversion to kanji with the Okinawan pronunciation. In creating this keyboard layout, I was working from the orthography found here. http://miyako-ikema.webonary.org/orthography/