NkoBoard - The N'ko Qwerty Keyboard
NkoBoard is a keyboard designed for the N'ko script of West Africa based on the qwerty keyboard layout. The primary objective of this layout design is to make it easy and seamless to start typing n'ko without having to learn a new keyboard layout.
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NkoBoard Qwerty Layout Mapping
Basic guidelines - No key combinations, no longpresses, 2 clicks at most to access all characters. The key mapping to qwerty is based on the Unicode code chart for N'KO.
- Alphabets:
The first letter of the latin of n'ko is mapped to the qwerty for 20 of the n'ko letters. The first letter of the word n'ko is mapped to the first letter of qwerty so ߒ : Q; ߍ which looks like an inverted v maps to V; ߐ maps to X; ߢ to Z; ߚ maps to shift+R; ߧ to shift+Z; ߧ maps to shift+N.
- Numbers:
The numbers are mapped to their respective values, so ߁ to 1; ߂ to 2 and so on.
- Accents:
All accent characters are placed on the shift layout of home keys for quick access, with the long tones on the left (ASDF), and the short tones to the right (JKL); The accent for foreign tones and kanadiyalan map to G and H respectively.
- Others:
The remaining characters are generally placed where the repective latin charater is.