!!!The Uralic keyboard project

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|http://gtweb.uit.no/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php/Barents_keyboard_project]. Use that page, the info here will not be updated, and it is (for the moment) kept for reference only.


!!!Obsolete documentation

!!Background documents

* The application text (somewhere)
* [Layout discussion|http://gtweb.uit.no/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php/Principles_for_keyboard_layouts_for_minority_languages_in_Russia] ~ [О Дезигн|http://gtweb.uit.no/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php/О_дезигн_клавиатуры]
* [Discussions on notation format|http://gtweb.uit.no/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php/Notation_format_for_keyboard_layout]

!Keyboard layouts for Kildin

* [Jurjev's Kildin Saami keyboard layout|data/jurjev.html]
* [Suggestions for a modification of Jurjev's layout|http://gtweb.uit.no/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php/Suggestions_for_a_modification_of_Jurjev%27s_layout]
* [Commands for Kildin statistics|http://gtweb.uit.no/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php/Commands_for_Kildin_statistics]

!Keyboard layouts for Komi

* [Pictures of layout drafts may be found here|data/i.html]

!Letter frequencies
Letter frequencies in running text for:

[Meadow Mari|data/letterfreq/mhrletters.freq.txt]
    ~  [Hill Mari|data/letterfreq/mrjletters.freq.txt]
 ~   [Komi Permyak|data/letterfreq/koiletters.freq.txt]
  ~  [Komi Zyrian|data/letterfreq/komletters.freq.txt]
       ~  [Udmurt|data/letterfreq/udmletters.freq.txt]
  ~  [Kildin Sami text|data/letterfreq/sjdtext.freq.txt] 
  ~  [Kildin Sami lemma|data/letterfreq/sjdletters.freq.txt] 

For reference, consider also the [Russian letter frequency|data/letterfreq/rusletters.freq.txt].

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|http://www.peoples.org.ru/font.html]
** (replaces Russian Windows keyboard with modified one)
* [Uralic keyboard from Mari El|http://www.mari-el.name/2010/05/27/komi-raskladka-klaviatury.html] 
** (gives ӓ, ӧ, і, ө, ӱ, ӥ, ӹ, ҥ, ӵ, ӝ, ӟ via AltGr + base letter)
* [Mari keyboard from Vienna|http://www.univie.ac.at/negation/mari-language/tech/newlay_win_en.html]
** (includes detailed info on user installation)
* [Aleksandr Jur'ev (Lovozero)|http://saami.su/en/file/6-rusakeyb.html]
** (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|http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~mr5496/downl/KildinAlphabet.pdf]

The following overview is taken from Michael Everson's [The Alphabets of Europe|http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/]

[Hill Mari|http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/hill-mari.pdf]
  ~  [Meadow Mari|http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/meadow-mari.pdf]
  ~  [Komi Permyak|http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/komi-permyak.pdf]
  ~  [Komi Zyrian|http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/komi.pdf]
  ~  [Udmurt|http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/udmurt.pdf]
  ~  [Kildin Sami|http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/kildin-sami.pdf]