Hi folks,
In this post I will talk about an easy way to type in Yoruba on a Mac. The little challenge with typing Yoruba properly with a standard keyboard is that it takes some effort to add diacritics, which are various dots and squiggles that appear on certain Yoruba alphabets. One solution to writing Yoruba easily is to use the Yoruba keyboard layout talked about on the Manemo Matemu website.
Once you install the layout in your Library/Keyboard Layouts folder, you can then select the layout as your keyboard input source.
Then you can type Yoruba as follows:
- All the keys remain the same as on the regular U.S. keyboard
- To add a dot under e, s, and o: ALT + letter (eg ALT + o to type ọ).
- Capital s, e or o with dot: SHIFT + ALT + letter
- High tone (mi): ALT + h
- Low tone (do): ALT + l
That’s all for now. Till next time, happy Yoruba writing.