Language Tools

Tools for indigenous languages on the web

This site provides basic tools and prototypes for some indigenous languages.

A keyboard for your language

Many languages have keyboards available from sources such as keyman.com and many other sites.

This site has some Keyman layouts available for download here.

We work with TranslationCommons.org If your language needs a way to type, you may submit a request at this address translationcommons.org/keyboard-resources/. Or use the feedback at the bottom of this page.

Available languages:

Ahom (aho)
Aiton (aio) (တႝ)ဢႝတွꩫ်
Aṉangu Yolŋu (en_anangu) Aṉangu-Yolngu
Bamum (bax)
Bangali (bn)
Bassa (bsq)
Batak Sinalungun (bts)
Blackfoot (bla) ᓱᖽᐧᖿ
Burmese (my)
Bété (bete)
Chakma (ccp) 𑄌𑄋𑄴𑄟𑄳𑄦
Cherokee (chr) ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ
Choctaw (cho)
Comanche (com) Nʉmʉ Tekwapʉ
Cree (cr)
Elfdalian (ovd) övdalsk
Fulfulde (ff)
Gondi (gon) Gōndi family
Gondi Aheri (Masaram) (esg) Aheri Gōndi Masaram
Gondi Northern (Gunjala) (gno) Northern Gōndi (Gunjala)
Ho (hoc)
Hoocąk (Ho-chunk) (win) Hoocąk
Igbo (ig)
Igbo Nsibidi (ig)
Inupiaq (ik) Iñupiaq
Kaingang (kgp)
Kalabari (ijn)
Karen (ksw)
Khamti (kmt) (တဲး)ၵမ်းတီ
Kihunde (hke)
Kinyarwanda (rw)
Kpelle (kpe)
Kurmanji Yezidi (ku)
Kuṛmāli / Kudmali (kyw)
Lakota (lkt) Lakȟótiyapi
Lampung (lampung)
Laz (lzz)
Lenape (del)
Lepcha (lep)
Loma (lom)
Mahasu (bfz)
Makah (myh)
Meitei (Manipuri) (mni) ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ
Mende (men) Mɛnde yia
Mende Kikakui (men)
Menoninee (mez) Oma͞eqnomenew
Mingrelian (xmf)
Mongolian (mn)
Mru (mro)
Mundari (unr)
Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
Nyaikeng Puachue Hmong (Igbo Nsibidi)
Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong (hnj)
Ojibwe (oj)
Oneida (one) Onʌyoteʔa·ká·
Otomanguean phonetic (omq)
Qiang (qiang)
Rhade (rad) klei Êđê
Rohingya (rhg)
Santali (sat) ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ
Shan (shn) လိၵ်ႈတႆ
Sora (srb)
Sunuwar (suz)
Sylheti (syl)
Tai Phake (phk)
Tai Viet script (tavt)
Tai Yo (tyj)
Tamashek (tmh) ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵌⴰⵆ
Tamil (ta) தமிழ்
Tangsa (nst) Tangsa
Tibetan (bod)
Tongan (to)
Tulu (tcy)
Vietnamese (vn) tiếng Việt
Wancho (nnp)
Wolof (wo)
Yoruba (yo)
Zaghawa (zag)
Fulani / Fulfulde / Pular (ff) Adlams script
Osage (osa)

Levels of language support on the web

Standard representation for text
- Typically this is Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16)
- It may be a defined standard, e.g. Shift-JIS, ISO-8859-1
- Font encodings (hacked fonts with replaced glyphs) are unlikely to be supported. Example: Burmese encoding in non-Standard Zawgyi.
Font support (usually Unicode)
- Downloadable fonts for desktop and laptop computers
- Web fonts for web sites
- To show text on a mobile device, a font for the script is needed. Note that such devices generally do not allow users to add fonts.
Keyboard support: A way to enter text
- May be available on operating system or via an installed application
- Web-based keyboard in browser and web apps. Example: Google Input Tools
- Mobile device text keyboard - no suggestions
- Soft keyboard + text suggestions: this requires a word list or dictionary, with appropriate licensing
High quality search: requires text processing and analysis
- Language identification (from text)
- Segmentation: breaking text into words
- Determining the "stems" of words, as in a language with various forms, e.g., "housing" & "houses" -> "house"
- In some cases, conversion to Unicode encoding
- Handwritten character input
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
Highest level: requires extensive data and processing.
- Full user interface translation in products
- Machine Translation
- Speech to text (STT) or Voice understanding
- Text to speech (TTS)

Note that the icon for this project is provided by languageicon.org