Wôpanâak/Keyboard

Wôpanâak Keyboard Layout

The orthography used by Jessie Little Doe Baird in her thesis An Introduction to Wampanoag Grammar makes use of only three characters that do not appear in English: ô, â, and ȣ.

Justifications

I used the US English keyboard layout as a basis for the Wôpanâak layout. The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project is located in Massachusetts, and its students are members of various Wampanoag communities in the state. Therefore, most or all of them are likely native speakers of US English, and are probably accustomed to the standard US keyboard layout.

In Baird's orthography, the letter o (without the circumflex) is not used at all. For that reason, I decided that ô should be the primary function of the key that types o in the English layout. An English o can be produced with the combination ALT+ô.