Languages belonging to the “Inuit-Aleut” family are spoken in a territory that spreads across arctic North America and into eastern Siberia. The Inuktitut/Inuvialuktun language of Eastern Canada can be written in either a Syllabic or Roman orthography. The rest of the languages use the Roman orthography alone. Aleut and some Yupik languages also employ a Cyrillic system, historically in Alaska and currently across the Bering Strait in Russia.

Some of these languages have a relatively newly developed practical alphabet which differs significantly from orthographies commonly used by linguists. Also, different dialects of the same language may utilise unique characters. Where possible and applicable, several keyboards will be available for each language. For more details, see the keyboard maps or language pages.

Each language will be provided with two keyboards, one for Windows and one for Macs.

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. Accents are typed after the base letter.

The Roman Orthography keyboards place accents and special letters only on punctuation keys, so as not to interfere with letters required by English. This way borrowed words or proper names can be typed in a Native language text without switching keyboard layouts. On these keyboards, accents are typed after the letter they modify. Where a punctuation key has been altered, the original value is typed by holding down the RIGHT-ALT (on Windows) or one of the OPTION keys (on Macs) and hitting the punctuation key.

Syllabics Keyboards

Windows Download
Windows) installation instructions

Roman Keyboards

Mac Download — Windows Download (1.2)
Mac Installation Instructions — Windows Installation Instructions

Last Update: August 9, 2020