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The Horne multilingual keyboards

You are invited to download the Horne multilingual keyboard drivers, which work under Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Versions for the ergonomically efficient Dvorak layout (which the author uses) and the traditional QWERTY layout are available for the following scripts:

• Latin (English, French, Turkish …)
• the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Greek (ancient and modern)
• Cyrillic (Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian …)
• Armenian
• Hebrew (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino …)
• Arabic (Arabic, Persian, Urdu …)
• Devanāgarī (Hindi, Nepali, Sanskrit …)
• Tamil
• Thai
• Tibetan
• Myanmar/Burmese
• Georgian
• Ethiopic (Amharic, Tigrinya)
• Cherokee
• Mongolian (Mongolian, Manchu …)

These drivers, their designs, and all associated documents are copyright � 2003–8 Unick Horne. Permission is granted for free use and, with acknowledgment, distribution for non-profit purposes.

Comments on the Horne family of keyboards? Please write to me.

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Latin

These keyboards, which fully support all the major and minor languages of Europe that use the Latin alphabet, offer the richest repertoire of accented letters, punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, currency signs, and other common typographical characters that has yet been implemented on a standard computer keyboard.

The European languages supported include Albanian, Asturian, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Byelorussian, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Old, Middle, and Modern), Esperanto, Estonian, Faeroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ingrian, Irish, Italian, Karelian, Kashubian, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgish, Maltese, Manx, Norwegian, Occitan, Old Norse, Polish, Portuguese, Proven�al, Rhaeto-Romance, Romany, Roumanian, S�mi (Inari, Lule, Northern, Skolt, and Southern), Sard, Scottish, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian (Lower and Upper), Spanish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Vepsian, Votic, Walloon, and Welsh. Many non-European languages (for example, Aymar�, Chichewa, Ewe, Fula, Hausa, Hawai‘ian, Hmong, Indonesian, Inuktitut [including the old Greenlandic orthography], Kikuyu, Lingala, Māori, Ojibwe, Quechua, Somali, Swahili, Wolof) are also supported, as is the pinyin romanization for Chinese.

Physical keyboards with keys correctly labelled will soon be available. Please send e-mail if you are interested in purchasing them.

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The International Phonetic Alphabet

The Horne keyboards for the International Phonetic Alphabet are based on the X-SAMPA encoding, a means of representing the IPA in ASCII. They support the full range of IPA characters in Unicode.

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Greek

The Horne Greek keyboards are based on the standard Greek keyboard layout, a phonetic counterpart of Latin QWERTY. They support the full range of Greek characters in Unicode, including obsolete letters and those used for Coptic. Monotonic and polytonic Greek can both be typed with ease.

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Cyrillic

The Horne Cyrillic keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Cyrillic characters in Unicode, including everything that is needed to type in Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altay, Avar, Azerbaijani, Balkar, Bashkir, Bulgarian, Buryat, Byelorussian, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Dargwa, Dungan, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kazakh, Khakas, Khanty, Komi, Kumyk, Kyrghyz, Lak, Lezgian, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moldavian, Mongolian, Nanay, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogay, Old Church Slavonic, Ossetic, Russian (old and modern), Ruthenian, S�mi (Kildin), Serbian, Shor, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udmurt, Uighur, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Yakut, and Yupik (Siberian).

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Armenian

The Horne Armenian keyboards are based on the standard Eastern Armenian keyboard layout, a phonetic counterpart of Latin QWERTY. They support the full range of Armenian characters in Unicode.

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Hebrew

The Horne Hebrew keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Hebrew characters in Unicode.

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Arabic

The Horne Arabic keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Arabic characters in Unicode.

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Devanāgarī

The Horne Devanāgarī keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Devanāgarī characters in Unicode, including everything that is needed to type in Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, and a number of other languages of the Indian subcontinent.

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Tamil

The Horne Tamil keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Tamil characters in Unicode.

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Thai

The Horne Thai keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Thai characters in Unicode.

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Tibetan

The Horne Tibetan keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Tibetan characters in Unicode.

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Myanmar (Burmese)

The Horne Burmese keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Burmese characters in Unicode.

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Georgian

The Horne Georgian keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layout. They support the full range of Georgian characters in Unicode.

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Ethiopic (Ge‘ez)

The Horne Ethiopic keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Ethiopic characters in Unicode.

To obtain a syllabic character, type the consonant (if any) and then the vowel. The diagrams that accompany the driver illustrate the procedure.

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Cherokee (Tsalagi)

The Horne Cherokee keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Cherokee characters in Unicode.

To obtain a syllabic character, type the consonant (if any) and then the vowel. The diagrams that accompany the driver illustrate the procedure.

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Mongolian

The Horne Mongolian keyboards are phonetic counterparts of the standard Latin layouts. They support the full range of Mongolian characters in Unicode. They are especially convenient for typing in Manchu, Mongolian, and Sibe (Xibo) but can also be used for Kalmyk, Oirat, and other languages.

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