Cree 1-key keyboards for Mac

Just a quick announcement that I've put up the Cree 1-key keyboard layouts for Mac.

Oji-Cree 1-Key Keyboard Layouts

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The Oji-Cree 1-Key keyboard layouts are up for download. One of them (Oji-Cree 1) is the standard 1-Key Languagegeek layout. The other (K-Net) is a Unicode keyboard replication of an earlier Oji-Cree font. This hopefully will be useful for those who are already accustomed to this old font.

Both Windows and Mac keyboard layouts are available.

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.