Hello YorubaName blog readers and supporters!
A couple of weeks ago, we promised to release Yorùbá Keyboard Layouts to help users of African languages on the internet place tone marks and subdots with the least possible number of keystrokes.
These keyboard layouts for Windows and Mac are here now!
They are designed with love to make typing in these languages as easy as possible. There are certainly other solutions out there, especially on Windows, to type letters with subdots as well as tone marks needed for Yorùbá, Igbo, and many other tonal languages. However, there is a clear advantage in offering both layouts with very similar key combinations for consistency, focusing on the letters “h” and “l” on the keyboard for “high” and “low” tones respectively. The mid-tone is usually left unmarked in most languages.
We hope you’ll have a fantastic time typing anything that takes your fancy.