Most of the Dene languages in Canada use a modified Roman orthography, while at the same time, some of these languages also use Syllabics. All Athabaskan languages in the USA use the Roman orthography exclusively. In recent years, there have been writing standards set up by native speakers, notably the Northwest Territories Dene Standardisation Project.

Most of the Athabaskan languages in Canada and the United States follow the same principles, for example: the voiceless lateral fricative is usually written ‹ł›, marked tone is written with an accent ‹á› or ‹à›, and nasal vowels are indicated with an ogonek ‹ą›. A few orthographies for Athabaskan languages do diverge from this system. There are differences between the languages’ standards, and each writing system is unique in its own way. For some languages in the NWT, there is a distinction between the capital glottal stop and the lowercase.

Each language will be provided with two keyboards, one for Windows and one for Macs. Older keyboards layouts which were available on this page in the past are always available if you contact me directly via email. Multi-lingual keyboards keep the standard A–Z keys while the special characters used by the languages are mapped to punctuation keys. These keyboards allow for easy typing in both English and the Native langauge at the same time.