Guarani/Keyboard
From LING073
Existing Resources
- There doesn't seem to be a widely-used, dedicated Guarani keyboard. A few articles mention that a Guarani keyboard is being developed, but I wasn't able to find any documentation or links to the keyboard. However, I was able to found a download link to a keyboard made by a user in a Guarani translation Google group.[1]This keyboard is similar to the Latin American layout, but with nasalized letters added to the 3rd and 4th keys of their corresponding non-nasal key. In that same Google group, people had mentioned that SwiftKey (a subsidiary of Microsoft that works on Android keyboards) was interested in working on a keyboard for Guarani.
- Most of Paraguay uses either the Latin American layout or the Spanish layout.
Justification
I used the Latin American Keyboard layout as a guideline for the Guarani keyboard, as it will be familiar with most Paraguayan users. The main issue with the Latin American keyboard is that besides the character ñ, which is included in the Latin American layout, there is no way to type Guarani's nasalized letters (ã, ẽ, ẽ, ĩ, ñ, õ, and ỹ) .
License
- This keyboard is licensed under an MIT License. For more information, go to my github.