About Keyman
Our mission is to empower every language community to thrive in the digital world, giving them the tools to read, write, and communicate in their own language—at no cost to them.
Keyman is a free and open source multilingual keyboard system which allows you to build and share keyboard layouts for any language. Keyman already supports over 2,500 languages and more are contributed every week.
Keyman was originally created in 1993 to type Lao on Windows. It is available for many platforms, including Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux and the web.
Keyboard layouts are defined with a clear and easy to understand keyboard grammar. Keyman's contextual input model means keyboard layouts can be intelligent and make it simple to type even the most complex languages. Keyboard layouts are distributed through an open catalog to all major desktop and mobile platforms.
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Keyman is made available to you by a dedicated team and many contributors. Learn more about our team.
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Keyman is provided to you free of charge with the support of generous donors.
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About SIL Global
Keyman is created by SIL Global (formerly SIL International). Partners in Language Development, SIL Global is a faith-based nonprofit organization committed to serving language communities worldwide as they build capacity for sustainable language development. SIL does this primarily through research, translation, training and materials development.
You can learn more about SIL Global on the SIL Global web site.
