This Keyman keyboard is designed for Lushootseed, a language of the Pacific Northwest spoken in Washington state.
The arrangement of Lushootseed letters on this keyboard closely follow the arrangement of keys in a standard English QWERTY keyboard.
This keyboard includes an On Screen Keyboard view for easy reference. The On Screen Keyboard works best when associated with a QWERTY US layout.
This is a Unicode keyboard and works with any Unicode font which has support for Lushootseed characters. Common fonts which work with Lushootseed are:
This keyboard also includes the following fonts which work well with Lushootseed:
You can find most keys on the Lushootseed keyboard by thinking of a similar letter in English.
Example: type saCeb to get sac̓əb.
Example: type suPqs to get sup̓qs.
You can find letters with ʷ and ʼ by using Shift:
Example: type XVi;qs to get xʷč̓iɬqs.
Example: type :uZ:uZ to get ƛ̕ux̌ʷƛ̕ux̌ʷ .
Type Backspace to delete any letter.
Example: type G gives gʷ. Typing G+Backspace removes the entire letter.
Example: type E gives q̓ʷ. Typing E+Backspace removes the entire letter.
Tulalip Lushootseed Department
6406 Marine Drive
Tulalip, WA 98271
David Sienko
360-716-4505