MOBILE KEYPAD LAYOUT ALPHABETS HOW TO
How to Installĭownload the African Keyboard from Google Play Store.įollow the standard installation procedure. After some days of research and coding I came up with the African Keyboard, implementing not only the Ngiemboon language characters, but (hopefully) all special characters found in Latin-based alphabets of African languages. I had to tell Boskary that there is no easy way, but promised him to have a look on the problem. As a person that loves languages it always frustrates me to see that technology actually hinders development of minority languages instead of promoting them and helping them to grow. The language contains certain exotic characters such as "ʉ", "ɔ" or "ŋ", that are not found on any usual keyboard. One day my friend Boskary, a member of my host family, came and asked me how can he type his native language, the Ngiemboon, on his Android phone. In summer 2016 I have been volunteering as an IT in a local school in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Informal sets of characters by country: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe Story Behind Yoruba Alphabet (Yoruba Orthography Committee).African Reference Alphabet (included in the "Full Character Set").
Although you can use the default "Full African Keyboard Character Set", which gives access to all special characters, you can also go to the Options and chose a particular character set that implements characters of languages from your area.
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