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The goal of this project is to contribute to the creation of good and efficient keyboards for minority languages, especially in Russia.

The project has a documentation page on Giellawiki. Use that page, the info here will not be updated, and it is (for the moment) kept for reference only.

Background documents

• The application text (somewhere)
• Layout discussion ~ О Дезигн
• Discussions on notation format

Keyboard layouts for Kildin

• Jurjev's Kildin Saami keyboard layout
• Suggestions for a modification of Jurjev's layout
• Commands for Kildin statistics

Keyboard layouts for Komi

• Pictures of layout drafts may be found here

Letter frequencies

Letter frequencies in running text for:

Meadow Mari  ~  Hill Mari  ~  Komi Permyak  ~  Komi Zyrian  ~  Udmurt  ~  Kildin Sami text  ~  Kildin Sami lemma

For reference, consider also the Russian letter frequency.

These data are based upon the respective Wikipedias, except the Kildin ones, who come in two versions: A smaller text corpus, from Facebook plus a small collection of stories, and a larger lemma corpus, based upon the lemma list of Kuruch's dictionary.

Other keyboards

• Esa Anttikoski
  • (replaces Russian Windows keyboard with modified one)
• Uralic keyboard from Mari El
  • (gives ӓ, ӧ, і, ө, ӱ, ӥ, ӹ, ҥ, ӵ, ӝ, ӟ via AltGr + base letter)
• Mari keyboard from Vienna
  • (includes detailed info on user installation)
• Aleksandr Jur'ev (Lovozero)
  • (WinRAR archiv including executables; This is non-Unicode, but the design might be useful for the project since several Kildin Saami are using this keyboard already.)

Alphabet overview

• Kildin Sami

The following overview is taken from Michael Everson's The Alphabets of Europe

Hill Mari  ~  Meadow Mari  ~  Komi Permyak  ~  Komi Zyrian  ~  Udmurt  ~  Kildin Sami