Arabic phonetic keyboard

[Omar Al Zabir]

Assalamu Alaikum,

I have made an Arabic keyboard Layout for Windows and Mac, which is a phonetic keyboard, based on the research done by the Intelleran group. It makes sure the most frequently Alphabets are available in least amount of key press. Moreover, I have optimized it to type Arabic with harakah. Hope you will like it. Any feedback welcome:

Please see:

http://arabic.omaralzabir.com/

[Ali Adams]

ma sha Allah brother,

may Allah guide you to serve Islam more and better in sha Allah.

See this too

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?colemak

Ai

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Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 7:23 AM
Subject: Arabic phonetic keyboard

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[Ali Adams]

Salam all,

May I suggest that you design a keyboard with all 37 letters (28 + standalone hamza + taa marboota + elf mqsoor + 5 different elfs + waw withhamza + yaa with hamza) and then use AltG for fatha / kesra / dhamma and Shift+AltG for tanween feth / tanween kesr / tanween dham

based on how many times you press it (once for fatha, twice for kesra, thrice for dhamma) or something similar.

And the letter order should be design for shortest path for most common of Arabic words

I can help with such research if you choose to go this route.

Salam

Ali

ء

ا

أ

إ

ٱ

آ

ب

ت

ث

ج

ح

خ

د

ذ

ر

ز

س

ش

ص

ض

ط

ظ

ع

غ

ف

ق

ك

ل

م

ن

ه

ة

و

ؤ

ي

ئ

ى

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Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 7:23 AM
Subject: Arabic phonetic keyboard

[Ali Adams]

Salam brother,

There are 69 letters and various marks in the Uthmani Quran (http://tanzil.net)

69 total = 37 letters + 32 marks.

How about showing all 37 letters by default alphabetically like the attached image and hiding all vowels and marks behind the Shift key?

Something might be considered too is how the Polish keyboard work: In the Polish alphabet they have nasal letters with built-in diacritics (fatha, dot, downward stem, etc) for some letters like a, n, r, s, z. When they want to use the read-made alternative letters, they just use the Alt Graphic + the basic letter.

Anyway here are the 69 letters and marks from QuranCode in Research Edition (download the full not the default Lite edition) and press Shit at the start to start the Research Edition. http://qurancode.com

  

ء

أ

ؤ

إ

ئ

ا

ب

ة

ت

ث

ج

ح

خ

د

ذ

ر

ز

س

ش

ص

ض

ط

ظ

ع

غ

ـ

ف

ق

ك

ل

م

ن

ه

و

ى

ي

ً

ٌ

ٍ

َ

ُ

ِ

ّ

ْ

ٓ

ٔ

ٰ

ٱ

ۖ

ۗ

ۘ

ۙ

ۚ

ۛ

ۜ

۞

۟

۠

ۢ

ۣ

ۥ

ۦ

ۧ

ۨ

۩

۪

۫

۬

ۭ

If you agree then I could in sha Allah continue working on the Shift 32 marks layout (logically grouped).

Ali

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From: Omar Al Zabir <omara...@gmail.com>

To: Ali Adams <heli...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 3:49 PM
Subject: RE: Arabic phonetic keyboard

Sure please let me know how the key mapping would be.

I would like to avoid alt combination for regular typing. It makes typing difficult.

I do have taa marboota, small alif, ya and wa with Hamza etc. I wanted to make sure I can type uthmani script with vowel properly.

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[Ali Adams]

Salam brother Omar,

They already did a great work.

Please see the attached phonetic layout and let me know if this is acceptable.

I am constrained by the 26 Latin letters.

Fi amaani Allah,

[Ali Adams]

Salam brother and  I AGREE TOTALLY.

Please see version 2 where I used the whole keyboard for all basic letters accessible directly without using Shift or AltG.

Brother Oman please see the attached QuranKeyboard.xls.

One letter is giving me headache :)

Elf memdooda (آ) which is not Uthmani letter. It is a simple plain Elf followed by a med sign/haraka (ٓ). Other vowels (waw and Yaa) are also followed by med sign sometimes in the Quran (قَالُوٓا۟ or يَٰبَنِىٓ). However Emlaai Arabics treat it as a single letter and never use med with Waw and Yaa.

So I should either add three versions of these as single letter each or drop the elf-memdood all together.

For now I hid it behind the Alt+g key.

Any thought?

See the attached QuranKeyboard.xls.

Ali

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To: Ali Adams <heli...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 7:56 AM

Subject: Re: Arabic phonetic keyboard

Salaam all!

Good effort, but last sheet shared by brother Ali is minimum requirement in my opinion. Any keyboard should atleast cover all these. But others may differ and their requirements may be lesser.

Regards,

[Omar Al Zabir]

Many thanks! let me start modifying the layout.

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[Omar Al Zabir]

Curious, what are these for?

ڤ

پ

ژ

ڪ

گ

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[Ali Adams]

Thank you brother :)

Ali

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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:05 PM

[Ali Adams]

Salam brother,

ڤ V and پ P are exactly what they sound on the English keyboard and can be used in non-Arabs (Kurdish / Farsi).

ڷ heavy L (as in last L in Label) used in Kurdish

ژ is light Z (as in garage) used in Kurdish

گ is G (as in get) used in Farsi

چ is Ch (as in chair) used in Kurdish

BUT the most important ones are the different forms of

1. final M   ﻣ

2. middle K ڪ

3. middle H  ﮩ

as the Uthmani text have two version of them throughout the Quran which could be extra binary data. The brothers at http://quranexplorer.com update the Quran text with the middle K and H but not final M yet.

Ali

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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:08 PM

[Ali Adams]

Salam brother,

ڤ V and پ P are exactly what they sound on the English keyboard and can be used in non-Arabs (Kurdish / Farsi).

ڷ heavy L (as in last L in Label) used in Kurdish

ژ is light Z (as in garage) used in Kurdish

گ is G (as in get) used in Farsi

چ is Ch (as in chair) used in Kurdish

BUT the most important ones are the different forms of

1. final M   ﻣ

2. middle K ڪ

3. middle H  ﮩ

as the Uthmani text have two version of them throughout the Quran which could be extra binary data. The brothers at http://quranexplorer.com update the Quran text with the middle K and H but not final M yet.

Ali

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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 3:08 PM

[Ali Adams]

And the red skoons are actually different skoons although they look the same. I have attached a PDF showing them in me_quran font to show the difference.

One for silent letter

Another for silent letter if not stopped at.

The real skoon is little haa (as in Haider).

Also please note that there are 3 types of tanween.

Normal ً  ٌ   ٍ

Idghaam  ََ  ُُ  ِِ  as double haraka

Iqlaab   َۢ  ُۢ  ِۭ  as harak followed by small meem

Hope this clarifies why small meems are with harakaat.

Ali

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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:11 PM

[Ali Adams]

And the red skoons are actually different skoons although they look the same. I have attached a PDF showing them in me_quran font to show the difference.

One for silent letter

Another for silent letter if not stopped at.

The real skoon is little haa (as in Haider).

Also please note that there are 3 types of tanween.

Normal ً  ٌ   ٍ

Idghaam  ََ  ُُ  ِِ  as double haraka

Iqlaab   َۢ  ُۢ  ِۭ  as harak followed by small meem

Hope this clarifies why small meems are with harakaat.

Ali

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Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:11 PM

[islamic striver]

Salaam all

Also check:
http://corpus.quran.com/java/buckwalter.jsp

Are you missing any from this list.

[islamic striver]

Also check attached

I tried to type equipvalent letters for buckwalter ARabic letter images.

[Omar Al Zabir]

Aha, Buckwalter! That's right, if it is not there in Buckwalter, we do not need it in the keyboard. Clever!

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[Omar Al Zabir]

This seems to have what we need:

http://corpus.quran.com/java/orthographymodel.jsp

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[islamic striver]

Brother Ali mentioned 69 characters while Buckwalter has only 60, those 9 should also be accommodated i.e. Total should be 69.

Regards,

[islamic striver]

Also will it be able to type from English Keyboard also like Eiktub?

[islamic striver]

Also check:
http://www.qamus.org/transliteration.htm
"...The full Arabic character set can be viewed at the Unicode website:

Arabic: U+0600 to U+06FF (PDF format)
Arabic Presentation Forms-A: U+FB50 to U+FDFF (PDF format)
Arabic Presentation Forms-B: U+FE70 to U+FEFF (PDF format)

The TITUS page for U+0600 through U+06FF displays the actual characters in your browser (UTF-8 encoding).

You can test your web browser's Arabic Unicode support at Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources website.

The Microsoft developer website has a useful table of the Arabic Windows (1256) and ISO 8859-6 code pages and their corresponding Unicode values...."

[Ali Adams]

Thank you brother for the reminder,

I think all these are already covered since QuranCode internally use these in the Grammar Edition :) which can be accessed using CTRL key at the start when launching QuranCode.

Ali

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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:31 AM

[Ali Adams]

Brothers,

We need the three variations of final Meem, middle Kaaf and middle Haa. These are in the real Mushaf but are not taken into account by tanzil's Text and partially done by QuranExplorer.

Also I noticed a Yaa and Taa with vertical double dots. The real Mushaf also have them.

Also I think the Idgham tanween should be one key press like the normal tanween, not two harakas.

As for the other foreign letters, feel free to remove them but remember this is supposed to be a Phonetic Keyboad so pressing V and P should give the Baa and Faa with 3 dots but that is secondary issue.

Thank you brother Omar for giving us the opportunity to shape the future of Arabic software.

Ali

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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 7:40 AM

[Omar Al Zabir]

I have put three types of meem, middle ha and middle kaaf on the keyboard.

Is there a separate character for Idhgam?

Please feel free to put the alphabets on the shared sheet. The green ones are for us to play with. 

[islamic striver]

If you also set some mechanism to type directly using English keyboard like Eiktub, this keyboard can be the Number 1 tool on Arabic Typing.

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[Omar Al Zabir]

Good idea. I will try to write some software for it one day, in shaa Allah. 

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[Ali Adams]

Salam all,

Brother Omar, there should be 3 separate characters for tanween idghaam (not idghdam itself).

But tanzil's Text uses tanween + subscript meem for produce tanween idghaam (always subscript meem not superscript):

ًًۭ

=

ً

+

ۭ

AND

ٍۢ

=

ٍ

+

ۢ 

AND

ٌۭ

=

ٌ

+

ۭ

So if we can make this a single key stroke, that would be most useful.

Thank you,

Ali

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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 4:10 AM

[Omar Al Zabir]

by the way, am I missing any character which arabs use in their regular writing?

Regards,
Omar Al Zabir

[Ali Adams]

I cannot speaCk :) from a phone.

All because of BT's Let's Talk :)

Ali

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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 4:22 PM

Subject: Re: Arabic phonetic keyboard

I can only speack for Iraqi Arabic. We use many of the Kurdish and Turkish Farsi letters I put in the original design. I also like to repeat my plea for V and P to use Baa with 3 dots and for P as Faa with 3 dots so as not to confuse those like myself using English only physical keyboards. Finally all Elf Was Yaa with hamza above should be accessed consistently either directly or with Shift as I did in the excel design. As for Elf with medd we should discourage it as most of the time Arabs use it instead of the proper Hamza followed by Elf. And of course no one uses Elf was which a crime against our kids and future Arabic usage and hence I put it outside with plain Elf and hid the Elf with hamza below behind it with Shift. Hope you can understand my reasoning better now :) Ali Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

From:"Omar Al Zabir" <omara...@gmail.com>

Date:Fri, 16 Jan, 2015 at 11:34

[Ali Adams]

I can only speack for Iraqi Arabic. We use many of the Kurdish and Turkish Farsi letters I put in the original design. I also like to repeat my plea for V and P to use Baa with 3 dots and for P as Faa with 3 dots so as not to confuse those like myself using English only physical keyboards. Finally all Elf Was Yaa with hamza above should be accessed consistently either directly or with Shift as I did in the excel design. As for Elf with medd we should discourage it as most of the time Arabs use it instead of the proper Hamza followed by Elf. And of course no one uses Elf was which a crime against our kids and future Arabic usage and hence I put it outside with plain Elf and hid the Elf with hamza below behind it with Shift. Hope you can understand my reasoning better now :) Ali Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

From:"Omar Al Zabir" <omara...@gmail.com> Date:Fri, 16 Jan, 2015 at 11:34