Kamba/Keyboard

Kamba Keyboard Layout

Selected Keyboard Design

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Rationale

Our Keyboard Design is based on the QWERTY Latin Script Keyboard. We chose this layout because - following Swahili keyboard - allows English typing - modified to include dead key for (i, u) .. chose dead key rather than compose/algr they're super frequent and it's the least possible amt of keystrokes - also is broadly related to Kikuyu, a language spoken by the largest ethnic group in Kenya - added (:) to accomodate Gusii language

MIT License - Information

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Aaliyah Bullen, Keira Dandy, and Jadyn Elliot

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Existing Resources

From our research, there are no computer keyboard layouts for Kamba. Swahili, the "lingua franca" of southeastern Africa, uses the QWERTY layout for Latin script, and a separate layout for Arabic Script. A significant portion of Kamba speakers are also literate in Swahili, so we presume those who would need a computer keyboard would also use the Swahili Latin Keyboard.

• Microsoft Swift Mobile Keyboard Layout for Kamba (only available on mobile devices)
  • Contains all characters needed for Kamba and English, but also contains many other characters irrelevant to most Kamba speakers.

• Gboard Keyboard Layout for Kamba (only available on Android mobile devices)

• Swahili Latin Script Keyboard

• Swahili Arabic Script Keyboard