Difference between revisions of "Wôpanâak/Keyboard"
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===Wôpanâak with English=== | ===Wôpanâak with English=== | ||
| − | This layout might be useful for someone typing purely in Wôpanâak, although it retains English functionality. Three Wôpanâak characters that do not appear in English (ô, â, and ȣ) replace three characters not used in Wôpanâak (o, f, and j, respectively). The English characters can be obtained using the right alt key with the respective keys. [[File:Wôpanâak_Keyboard_Layout. | + | This layout might be useful for someone typing purely in Wôpanâak, although it retains English functionality. Three Wôpanâak characters that do not appear in English (ô, â, and ȣ) replace three characters not used in Wôpanâak (o, f, and j, respectively). The English characters can be obtained using the right alt key with the respective keys. [[File:Wôpanâak_Keyboard_Layout.png]] |
===English with Wôpnanâak=== | ===English with Wôpnanâak=== | ||
Revision as of 02:29, 28 January 2017
Keyboard Layouts
Wôpanâak with English
This layout might be useful for someone typing purely in Wôpanâak, although it retains English functionality. Three Wôpanâak characters that do not appear in English (ô, â, and ȣ) replace three characters not used in Wôpanâak (o, f, and j, respectively). The English characters can be obtained using the right alt key with the respective keys. 
English with Wôpnanâak
This keyboard layout maintains the English keyboard layout to a greater degree, which might be useful for someone switching between the two languages but familiar with the English layout. Instead of replacing English characters with Wôpanâak ones, the Wôpanâak characters are obtained using the alt key with three English letters (o becomes ô, a becomes â, and u becomes ȣ). Additionally, the combination shift+6 is a deadkey that can apply a circumflex to following letters (the circumflex on its own can be obtained with alt+6).
Justifications
I used the US English keyboard layout as a basis for the Wôpanâak layout. The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project is located in Massachusetts, and its students are members of various Wampanoag communities in the state. Therefore, most or all of them are likely native speakers of US English, and are probably accustomed to the standard US keyboard layout.
The orthography used by Jessie Little Doe Baird in her thesis An Introduction to Wampanoag Grammar makes use of only three characters that do not appear in English.
In Baird's orthography, the letter o (without the circumflex) is not used at all. For that reason, I decided that ô should be the primary function of the key that types o in the English layout. An English o can be produced with the combination ALT+ô.
