User Guide for this keyboard (based on Lexilogos but improved)
To type directly with the computer keyboard:
For emphatic letters, use capital letters example: H, S, D, T, Z which become ‘ح’ ‘ص’ ‘ض’ ‘ط’ ‘ظ’
For letters accompanied by a diacritic, add an apostrophe example: t’ for ‘ث’, H’ for ‘خ’, d’ for ‘ذ’, s’ for ‘ش’, S’ for ‘ض’, T’ for ‘ظ’ and g’ for ‘غ’
Special characters of the Arabic language:
| Charactere | key | |
| ء | (hamza) | – (tiret) |
| ئ | y– | |
| ؤ | w– | |
| إ | a– | |
| أ | -a | |
| آ | aa | |
| ى | (alif maqsura) | Y |
| ة | (ta marbouta) | h’ |
| لا | la | |
The letters that correspond to the sounds g, p, v do not exist in classical Arabic. However, to transcribe, for example, words of European origin, these equivalents are used:
| Charactere | key | ||
| g | ڨ | Algeria, Tunisia | q’ |
| g | ڭ | Moroco | k’ |
| p | پ | p or b’ | |
| v | ڢ | Algeria, Tunisia e | v |
| v | ڤ | Moroco | f’ |
| ch | چ | c or j’ | |
Note on Arabic characters and numerals:
Arabic characters do not always have the same shape depending on whether they are placed at the beginning, middle or end of a given word.
The Arabic numerals above (“٠”,”١”,”٢”,”٣”,”٤”,”٥”,”٦”,”٧”,”٨”,”٩”) are only used in certain eastern countries.
Use the [Ctrl]+[C] command to Copy & and the [Ctrl]+[V] command to Paste.
