Japhug/Keyboard

Keyboard layout for Japhug in IPA.

Description

Speakers of Japhug, similar to many other Gyalrongic language speakers, didn’t have the tradition to record their language. Some texts used Tibetan Scripts, but not only those texts are flooded with Tibetan loan words, but they also fail to accurately reflect Japhug pronunciation.

Therefore, we use the IPA for the course. Specifically, Japhug has 41 distinct phonemes, they are

a b β c ɕ d e ɤ f g ɣ ɢ h i j ɟ k l ɬ m n ɲ ŋ ɴ o p q r ʁ s ʂ t u ɯ w x χ y z ʐ ʑ

We use a modified QWERTY layout to type IPA for Japhug. For convenience, we use 'h' instead of 'ʰ' to represent aspiration vowels.

Keyboard layout

~
`

!
1

 

@
2

#
3

$
4

%
5

^
6

&
7

*
8

(
9

)
0

_
-

+
=

       

q

 

w

e

ʁ
r

t

y
ɤ

u

i

o

p

{
[

}
]

|
\

        

a

ʂ
s

d

f

ɣ
g

ɢ

h

ɟ
j

k

ɬ
l

:
;

"
'

           

ʑ
z

ʐ

χ
x

ɕ
c

v
ɯ

β
b

ŋ
n

ɴ

ɲ
m

<
,

>
.

?
/

Main differences from Standard QWERTY layout:

1. In the shift level,