We’re very pleased to announce that as of November 2021 Shaetlan is now included in the Microsoft SwiftKey mobile keyboard.

 

BREAKING NEWS!

 
 

We have submitted an initial corpus of ca 310,000 words and 28,500 lexical wordforms, including 4,000 Shetland placenames. We also translated the entire current emoji list (as of November 2021).

This is the first time ever that Shaetlan is included as a recognized language in an international keyboard language list, and it is the first time ever that Shaetlan speakers will have access to autocorrect and predictive text in Shaetlan. For the first time ever, Shaetlan digitalk is officially supported through technology.

We thank Julien Baley and the SwiftKey team for their fantastic help and support in giving marginalised languages a digitalk voice.

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