Interests
I enjoy running, reading, music, and foreign languages (especially writing scripts). I'm a voracious reader; I read books from all classes of the dewey decimal system. I especially like literature, pop-science, and fantasy/sci-fi. I love foreign languages, my second language is Japanese and I'm an enthusiastic beginner at Russian.
My first passion is music. I play a handful of instruments, and can be found playing classical guitar at wedding ceremonies for friends and families.
Phonetic Cyrillic Keyboard
Written in Vue
If you know how to sound out letters in the Cyrillic alphabet you can type the sounds here.
Languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet have keyboard layouts that are unintuitive for people accustomed to typing in English.
Try typing
tsar,
bank,
vodka,
or sputnik.
These words transliterate into many East Slavic languages perfectly with my keyboard!
Notes on the mappings
| Input | Output | |
|---|
| "s | ь | Soft sign |
| "h | ъ | Hard sign |
These two symbols don't have a sound, they modify the sound of other characters. As a mnemonic the keystrokes
s and
h stand for "soft" and "hard" respectively.
This sound is very alien to my North-American-English ears and I'm terrible at pronouncing it. If you take the IPA pronunciation of
/u/ and
/i/ and say it with the back of your throat you kind of get close to this sound, so it's the best key combination I could come up with.
Russian has two sounds that fall under the
sh noise we use in English. Mandarin Chinese differentiates these two sounds, so I borrowed the writing convention from Mandarin Pinyin's
shi vs
xi.
| Input | Output |
|---|
| ya | я |
| yi | й |
| yu | ю |
| ye | е |
| yo | ё |
These remind me of typing
や [ya]
ゆ [yu] and
よ [yo] in Japanese.
I know
ж is usually transliterated as
zh but the English sound for
j is close enough to feel intuitive to me while I'm typing (don't use this as a pronunciation guide though).
The Cyrillic
с unambiguously maps to the English
s. But in English
c is also pronounced as
s sometimes, the Cyrillic and English characters for
c are the same, and the
c key when typed alone was available, so I put this Cyrillic character on the keyboard twice.
Sometimes two characters form a composite that gets its own character, if you want to prevent this you can separate these with an apostrophe.