African Keyboard

African Keyboard Free App

Rated 4.50/5 (139) —  Free Android application by Dominik M. Ramík

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About African Keyboard

For installation instructions please visit http://dominicweb.eu/en/african-keyboard

The African Keyboard app is an Android keyboard implementing special characters of African languages that use Latin-based alphabets. Its goal is to give users means of writing their native languages and as such to promote the preservation and growth of those languages and their cultures.

The keyboard offers familiar QWERTY and AZERTY layouts and thus is usable for casual writing of English, French and so on. On top of this it offers sets of special characters used in various African languages. Those characters are grouped under keys according to graphical or phonetic resemblance and are accessible after long press on the key. Many African languages use various accents to express tones, nasalization and so on. The uppermost line of the keyboard gives access to such accents, that can be combined virtually with any letter.

Although you can use the default "Full African Keyboard Character Set", which gives access to all special characters, you can also go to the Options and chose a particular character set that implements characters of languages from your area. The available options are:

Standardized alphabets:
- African Reference Alphabet (included in the "Full Character Set")
- Benin National Languages Alphabet
- Berber Latin Alphabet
- General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages
- Guinean National Alphabet
- Pan-Nigerian Alphabet
- Tamasheq Latin Alphabet
- Yoruba Alphabet (Yoruba Orthography Committee)

Informal sets of characters by country: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

How to Download / Install

Download and install African Keyboard version 0.18 on your Android device!
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Android package: eu.dominicweb.africankeyboard, download African Keyboard.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
Added icon in app tray giving access to instructions about activation of the keyboard and user help.
Version update African Keyboard was updated to version 0.18
More downloads  African Keyboard reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads

What are users saying about African Keyboard

J70%
by J####:

Great App! Thanks a lot for this. I can now finally type all the letters I need to learn Yorùbá. The other keyboards I tried can't compete. Good Job!

L70%
by L####:

Excellent! This will revolutionise writing in so many African languages and help to develop them further. Im recommending this to all I know who can use this. thx so much!!

C70%
by C####:

Best African keyboard, author expanded keymap to cover requested languages, lightweight and visually organised as well !

C70%
by C####:

Unbelievable, I'm so proud that finally I can be able to use my own native language.

S70%
by S####:

Very good at what it does. Impressive implementation of the diacritics and tonal marks. Thumbs up!

H70%
by H####:

5 stars is good enough for this keyboard.

U70%
by U####:

Niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

C70%
by C####:

It's amazing

C70%
by C####:

Helpful

R70%
by R####:

I love it because it will make you know more about your local language

B70%
by B####:

very very interresting. we highly recommend it. Ngɑ̌ pēn yēē tɑ̀'. yāā tɑ́ ngɑ̌ kòndáh nŋɑ́' wū ntìé' lè. Pèn láh mbə̀' mfɑ̀' ngén mbhì. c'est justement grace à ca que je suis en train decrire. maintenant la seule chose restante cest la precomposition des caracteres spéciaux. Par exemple, sur les voyelles telles que a, e, i, o, u, les diacritiques doivent être accolées. Bien vouloir me contacter via le Facebook de Resulam pour plus de discussions.

Q70%
by Q####:

Absolutely wonderful.Thank you very much for this nice gift. akpe na mi kaka ɖe miaƒe dɔ nyui sia ta. ewe

X70%
by X####:

very intersting for us. thank you so much.

R70%
by R####:

So I enabled the African keyboard on language and input settings and everything seems fine. Thanks for help.

R70%
by R####:

Loved it! I'd give it 10 stars. There is no other keyboard available for African languages.

J70%
by J####:

Can not open it


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