Munsee/Keyboard

Existing Resources

• (On-screen) Keyboard layout for Lunáapeewi-hulŭniixsuwáakan (Munsee) by KeymanHelp. Free and open source.

• Keyboard Layout from LanguageGeek Copyright 2007 Chris Harvey.

Keyboard Layout

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The following are dead keys:

Justification

As of 2022, Munsee (Huluníixsuwaakan) only has one fluent speaker (Dianne Snake), so we wanted to create a keyboard layout that would be as accessible as possible. Basing our layout on the Munsee and Unami layouts by LanguageGeek, we created a Munsee keyboard layout that also supported Unami, a closely related language, and English.

Installation Instructions

1. Clone the keyboard layout from the repository linked above by copying the ssh url and pasting it on the command line after git clone
2. Copy the layout file into ~/.m17n.d/
   1. To do this, type in cp umu.mim ~/.m17n.d into the command line.
3. Go to IBUS settings, select the English (US, alt., intl.)
   1. This allows the altgr layer to be accessed
4. Add/Enable the new Munsee layout through IBUS
   1. You may need restart IBUS so that the new layout appears
   2. You can search for the Munsee layout by name, ISO code umu, or under 'other'

License

This layout is licensed under the MIT License. Under copyright inclusion, any person may use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software.