Rungus/Keyboard

Existing Resources

Everything we can find online says that Malay speakers use the standard US English keyboard. There are no Rungus keyboard layouts available online.

Justification

We made the following changes to the standard US English keyboard layout:

• Replaced the back tick symbol in the top left key (`) with the alphabetical glottal stop symbol in Rungus (ʼ). We then added the back tick to the AltGr slot on the same key, in case it might be useful for coding, etc. We wanted to prioritize the alphabetical character in the lowercase slot.
• To incorporate IPA symbols, we added the ones necessary to visually corresponding letter keys in the AltGr slot. /ʔ/ was added to q/Q, /ɵ/ to o/O, /ʑ/ to z/Z, /ɕ/ to c/C, and /ŋ/ to n/N.

Installation

1. Open terminal enter the command "sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n".

   Eter the command "im-config -n ibus".
   Download ainu-tcode.mim from this git repo, and copy it to "/usr/share/m17n".
   Log out and log in again to update Ibus.
   In your dock, right click the faint blue icon that has just appeared and select "Preferences".
   In the "Input Method" tab, click the "Add" button and the language selection window will appear.
   Click the "...", and then "Ainu". Select the single "Ainu (m17n)" entry and click the "Add" button.
   Click the faint blue ibus icon in the dock and select "Ainu - Ainu (m17n)". You should now be able to type in Ainu.

License

This file is part of the m17n database; a sub-part of the m17n library.

The m17n library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

The m17n library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>

Keyboard with IPA Symbols

~
ʼ

`

!
1

 

@
2

#
3

$
4

%
5

^
6

&
7

*
8

(
9

)
0

_
-

+
=

       

Q
q

ʔ

 

W
w

E
e

R
r

T
t

Y
y

U
u

I
i

O
o

ɵ

P
p

{
[

}
]

|
\

        

A
a

S
s

D
d

F
f

G
g

H
h

J
j

K
k

L
l

:
;

"
'

           

Z
z

ʑ

X
x

C
c

ɕ

V
v

B
b

N
n

ŋ

M
m

<
,

>
.

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