Dene Syllabics Keyboards for Windows

After a busy few months away from Languagegeek, I found some time today to add a couple new keyboards: 1-Key Dene Syllabics for Windows. I’m going to keep working on 1-Key syllabics keyboards whenever I can.

Dene Syllabics Keyboards

It's been a long time since I updated the Dene Syllabics keyboard layouts. Well, I've gotten around to it today. There are two keyboard layouts up on the page: NWT Dene and Sayisi Dene.

NWT Dene 

This follows the old Catholic Syllabics tradition and is notable in that it indicates:

• Nasalization with a raised ˋ
• Aspirated K and the fricative X with a raised ᑦ
• Some ejective consonants with a raised ˈ 

Because the above diacritics are written at the top-line, the finals (syllable-final consonant characters) should be written mid-line so as not to cause confusion.

• Nasalization ˋ is distinguished from final K ᐠ
• Aspirated K and X ᑦ is distinguished from final M ᒼ
• Ejective ˈ is distinguished from final B ᑊ

There are no fonts out there that I've seen which can indicate these distinctions - except for the Dene-specific Languagegeek fonts, so if you're writing Dene syllabics, you might want to check out

• OskiDeneC - though I'll be making a better Oski font.
• Masinahikan
• Pitabek - Nice and traditional Dene design

Sayisi Dene

This follows the old Anglican Syllabics tradition and is notable in that it:

• Differentiates the vowels U and O
• Has unique characters for the TL CH/SH clusters
• Can indicate more voicing distinctions

Traditionally, most finals (syllable-final consonant characters) are written on the base line, and there aren't any fonts that can manage this, except the Languagegeek fonts

• OskiDeneA - though I'll be making a better Oski font.
• MasinahikanDene

Dakelh

Dakelh isn't ready yet, but I look forward to working on it soon.