The American Southwest is home to many languages of different language families. The keyboard layouts here are for the Yuman, Kiowa-Tanoan, Uto-Aztecan, Zunian, and Keresan families, though not all languages have keyboard software here. If you are looking for Athapaskan keyboards (Navajo or Apache languages), they can be found on the Athapaskan page.

Some of these languages have a relatively newly developed practical alphabet which differs significantly from the orthography commonly used by linguists. 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 either the punctuation keys or, in some cases, the number keys. For the languages which have two keyboards (one with remapped punctuation keys and one with remapped number keys), the number keys keyboard is preferable for touch typing.

Accents are typed after the base letter unless otherwise specified in the keymap pdf. Where possible, keyboards for Windows have been designed in the standard Microsoft Windows key layout file format.