fur-language

Fur language (poór'íŋ belé) [iso 639-3: fvr] resources and computer aids.

Keyboard maps:

Installation:

Windows:

• Open keyboard/fur_alt_win_installer-01.zip or keyboard/fur_xcv_win_installer-01.zip (depending on which layout you want to install)
• run setup.exe

Mac OS X:

• Open keyboard/Fur_mac_poor_in_bele.dmg
• drag Fur_02.bundle into the folder that appears on the screen to install
• Note: To remove an old keyboard (e.g. if updating the version of your Fur keyboard) delete the files for the old keyboard in "~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/" or "/Library/Keyboard Layouts/" (if installed globally). May require reboot to clear cache.

Linux:

• TODO!

Orthography:

Basing our keyboard maps on the orthography suggested in the SIL publication Kutsch Lojenga and Waag 2004: "The sounds and tones of Fur" (https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/35935) - this seems to be the accepted orthography in publications in these years at least (2004-2017)

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Orthography summery:

Basic latin: c, f, q, x - not used.

Added chars:

ATR+ vowels, nasal consonants

Differences from IPA:

A̲/a̱	Ɨ/ɨ	Ʉ/ʉ	Ŋ/ŋ	NY/ny	J/j	Y/y
+	+	+	/ŋ/	/ɲ/	/ɟ/	/j/

a a̱ b (c) d e (f) g h i ɨ j k l m n ŋ ny o p (q) r s t u ʉ v w (x) y z

A A̱ B (C) D E (F) G H I Ɨ J K L M N Ŋ NY O P (Q) R S T U Ʉ V W (X) Y Z

Layouts:

(todo - unicode way to render keyboard layouts?)

Gray-Alt layout:

.. ʉ ɨ a̱ ŋ tone-marks: áâǎ

'xcv' overriding layout (xcvqf) :

QWERTY layout - overriding unused letters in Fur (xcvqf), to Fur letters (a̱ ɨ ʉ ŋ ny).

Fur letters in green, tone marks in pink. Gray-alt + key - provides the original US-qwerty key below it.

The two layouts can actually be installed and used on the same machine, alternating between them when you type in "mostly English" with a few Fur words or vice-versa, or till you see which one suits you better.

MacOS:

Provided. Status bar icon: P'ŋ

Language code: 'fvr' (after installing the package - searching for "poor"/"fur"/"fvr" will find the language) Same common layouts. (called 'alt' and 'zxc')

Bug: Language icon is black, should be 'color reversing' (it's not visible on dark background currently)

Windows:

The provided keyboard, installs the keyboard layouts as "Maori"

Mobile Platforms:

Android:

• Dominic's keyboard (Google Play) - supports the above Fur alphabet as part of the "Sudan" keyboard map.

iOS:

No known keyboard. Keyman - on some settings, should provide something, esp now that Keyman is a SIL project.

Technical notes:

• MacOS keyboard created with SIL's Ukelele : https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Ukelele
• Windows keyboard created with Microsoft's tool [] Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22339