Ivujivik man builds his own Inuktitut app – Nunatsiaq News
Jul 19, 2023
Thomassie Mangiok created the keyboard to improve Inuktitut syllabics on smartphones and tablets
Thomassie Mangiok wanted to communicate in Inuktitut with his children using phones or tablets. But for typing, none of the existing Inuktitut keyboard apps were good enough.
“They weren’t working. I couldn’t find the keys. There was no logic. It wasn’t possible to find anything,” he said.
“So I decided to make something that was good.”
That motivated Mangiok, who lives in Ivujivik, to develop his own Inuktitut syllabic keyboard app for phones and tablets. He named it Inuktitut.
The newest version of the app has been available for Apple phones and tablets since April. Another version for phones using the Android system was released July 13.
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