From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2006 - 23:12:29 CDT
A fact to consider in evaluating these keyboards is
that both Flathead (= Montana Salish) and Kootenai
are languages in extremis, with very few speakers, all
elderly, and no realistic prospect of revitalization.
I'm not positive about Kootenai, but I am certain that
there are no monolingual speakers of Flathead, or even
people who are Flathead dominant. Therefore, everyone
who will be typing in Flathead, and in all probability
this also holds of Kootenai, will be dominant in English
and educated in English. I don't have sufficient expertise
in keyboard-ology to know the implications of this, but
these are languages for which the best keyboards (in a technical
sense, leaving aside political issues) will be those
comfortable for people who learn to type in English and
type primarily in English.
Bill
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