To complete written assignments in this course, you will require a Ukrainian keyboard installed on your computer, tablet or mobile device. This is what you need to know about the two types of Ukrainian keyboard layout and how to install them.
There are two main Ukrainian keyboard layouts: standard (ЙЦУКЕН) and phonetic (sometimes also called mnemonic/homophonic).
The standard keyboard layout is available in operating systems of desktop and mobile devices by default and is commonly used in Ukraine. However, it has a steeper learning curve for English speakers.
A phonetic keyboard layout maps the Ukrainian letters to the English qwerty keyboard, so that the letters either have the same sound or same shape. For example, Ukrainian М is very similar to English M in appearance and sound. Other letters such as Д look less similar, but this letter has the same sound as an English D and Ukrainian X is matched with English X based on their similar shape. Phonetic keyboard layout is mostly popular among Westerners learning Ukrainian.
Mac OS has two Ukrainian keyboard layouts available in the settings. The only difference between the two layouts is the location for two vowels keys: і and и. Follow the video to install a Ukrainian keyboard on your Mac computer. The above two layouts follow the standard layout pattern.
If you prefer to use a phonetic Ukrainian keyboard, there are a number of options available for Mac OS: option 1, option 2, option 3.
Windows PCs offer a single standard layout of a Ukrainian keyboard. Follow the instructions in this video to install a Ukrainian keyboard on your Windows desktop or laptop.
The Google Input Tools extension provides virtual keyboards for over 90 languages, including Ukrainian. This extension allows users to use input tools in any web pages in Chrome, both on Mac and PC. To use Input Tools Chrome extension, follow the steps described in the video.
Ukrainian Keyboard Ukrainian Language Keyboard free download - Arabic Keyboard, Ukrainian Color Keyboard 2019: Ukrainian Language, Keyboard Music, and many more programs. This feature of the transliterator serves as Ukrainian phonetic keyboard and can help you then, when you have no access to the conventional Ukrainian keyboard or Ukrainian keyboard layout. The Ukrainian keyboard emulator is also available for direct access via mouse. The on screen Ukrainian keyboard is located on the right side of the screen.
Find out more about this virtual keyboard for Chrome and other Google services on the official webpage.
Similar to desktop and laptop computers, mobile devices, such as iPhone and iPad, offer a Ukrainian keyboard through their system settings.
Follow these videos to learn how to install a Ukrainian keyboard on your iPhone or iPad. It couldn’t be simpler!
If you own an Android phone or tablet, a Ukrainian keyboard can be added through the system settings.
This video will walk you through the installation process for a Ukrainian keyboard on a Samsung phone. The process will be quite similar on other Android devices.
If you are an owner of a mobile Windows device, please follow the steps in this video to add a Ukrainian keyboard to your device.
This page focuses on languages other than Russian which are written in the Cyrillic script.
See also: Cyrillic Chart | Russian | Ukrainian | Slavic | Turkic
Page Content
- iPhone/DroidNew Page
Languages Written in Cyrillic
Not surprisingly, many languages that were part of the former Soviet Union are written in the Cyrillic alphabet or use Cyrillic as one of the possible available scripts. Some languages include Slavic languages like Ukrainian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Macedonian sometimes Serbian.
However, Cyrillic is also used for non-Slavic Central Asian languages such Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrghiz, Azer and others. Many are Turkic languages, but the list covers a wide variety of language families including Caucausian, Iranian, Uralic, Mongolian and multiple indigenous languages of Siberia.
Note: Some languages in Central Asia can be written in either Cyrillic, the Western Latin alphabet or even the Arabic script depending on the location of a particular speaker community.
Font Recommendations
Extra Cyrillic Letters
The Cyrillic script as a totality includes letters not used in Russian, but which are important for other languages. If you are working with a language other than Russian, it is important that have access to fonts which include these characters. A font that supports Russian may not support all the extra Cyrillic characters.
Test Characters
Examples of non-Russian Cyrillic characters are shown in the table below. You can see additonal examples on the Cyrillic chart page.
Character Name | Character |
---|---|
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE WITH GRAVE | Ѐ |
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DJE (Serbian) | Ђ |
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER UKRAINIAN IE | Є |
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE | Њ |
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH BREVE | Ӂ |
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH STROKE (Kazakh/Central Asian) | Ғ |
CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LITTLE YUS (Early Slavic) | Ѧ |
Recommended Fonts
The fonts below support a wide range of characters including historical characters and those from Central Asian Cyrillic languages.
Common System Fonts
The most recent version of these fonts support a
- Microsoft: Arial/Arial Unicode, Times New Roman, Calibri, Cambria
- Apple: Lucida Grande
- Others: Helvetica (Neue)
Third Party Fonts
- Kodeks German Medieval Slavicists Server
Central European Languages
If you are working with languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, Macedonian or other languages more closely related to Russian, you may discover additional fonts which support the the characters you need even if they don’t include all Cyrillic characters.
Ukrainian Phonetic Keyboard For Mac Keyboard
Typing Cyrilic
Activating Keyboards
Both Windows and Macintosh provide a wide range of keyboard utilities which can be activated to allow a user to type in a particular Cyrillic language.
Note that in many cases the layout will match that used in the different countries.
If a particular language is not supported, you can look to see if one has been developed by another source. It is important to make sure the developer is reputable in this situation.
Transliterated Keyboard Options
If you wish to use a transliterated (or phonetic/QWERTY) layout in which Cyrillic letters are mapped to the closest English keyboard counterpart, the options are more limited.
Bulgarian and Ukrainian
- Both Windows 10 and Macintosh provide a Phonetic keyboard for Bulgarian.
- Third party phonetic keyboards for Ukrainian also exist.
Other Options
One possibility is to use a Russian or other transliterated keyboard and use other techniques to insert additional letters as needed.
Another is to search to see of a transliterated keyboard has been developed and posted online. It is important to make sure the developer is reputable in this situation. Lagu anak islami asmaul husna.
Web Development and Language Codes
This section presents information specific to the Cyrillic script. For general information about developing non-English Web sites, see the Encoding Tutorial or the Web Layout sections.
Test Web Site
If you have all the utilities set up correctly, then your browser should be able
to see the following Cyrillic test pages correctly.
to see the following Cyrillic test pages correctly.
Russian Phonetic Keyboard Free Download
If this sites is not displaying correctly, see the Browser Setup page for debugging information.
Encodings
Unicode (
utf-8
) is the preferred encoding for Web sites, especially because it includes all Cyrillic and non-Cyrillic characters. Selected Language Tags
Language Tags allow browsers and other software to process Russian text more efficiently. Below is a list of selected languages written in Cyrillic.
ab
(Abkhaz)av
(Avar)az
(Azerbaijani/Azeri)ba
(Bashkir)be
(Byelorussian/Belarussian)bg
(Bulgarian)cv
(Chuvash)kk
(Kazakh)kca
(Khanty/Hanty/Ostyak)kv
(Komi)ky
(Kyrghiz)lez
(Lezgian)mk
(Macedonian)mn
(Mongolian)mo
(MoldovanDeprecated =ro
Romanian)niv
(Nivkh)oaa
(Orok/Uilta)os
(Ossetian)ru
(Russian)rue
(Rusyn)sr
(Serbian)tg
(Tajik)tt
(Tatar)tk
(Turkmen)ug
(Uyghur)uk
(Ukrainian)uz
(Uzbek)
Script Codes
Some languages in this region can be written in Cyrillic or alternate scripts. Below are some ISO-15924 script tags which can be used to identify which script is being used.
- –
Cyrl
(Cyrillic script) - –
Latn
(Latin/Western script) - –
Arab
(Arabic script) - –
Cyrs
(Old Church Slavonic script) - –
Glag
(Glagoltic)
Script Code Examples
For a language like Uzbek which has been written in three scripts (Cyrillic, Arabic and Latin), the codes would be:
uz-Cyrl
(Uzbek in Cyrillic text)uz-Arab
(Uzbek in Arabic script)uz-Latn
(Uzbek in Western/Latin alphabet)
Similarly, Serbian in Cyrillic is
sr-Cyrl
while Serbian in the Latin alphabet would be sr-Latn.
Using Unicode Escape Characters
If you wish to input a word or short phrase, you can use Unicode entity codes.
See the Cyrillic Unicode Block Codes or for details.
See the Cyrillic Unicode Block Codes or for details.
Links
Eastern European/Central Asian Languages
Cyrillic Characters
Cyrillic Fonts
- Kodeks German Medieval Slavicists Server
Cyrillic Computing
- BRAMA Ukrainian Computing – Fonts and utilities for Ukrainian. Some already available with the most recent versions of Macintosh and Windows.