TypeTajik
The Web home for Tajik fonts and keyboards
This page was launched on 15th May 2004. It will be a growing resource for the Tajik language on the Web.
I have lots of ideas for resources to make available here, such as:
- fonts
- keyboard drivers
- keyboard layouts
- macros to convert text from one font to another
- language learning resources
- to make the whole site bilingual English/Tajik
But if you're reading this page, I'd like to know what you would like to see here (send me an email). This will help me to add to the list above, and prioritise what to develop first.
Fonts
Using the links below, you can download Tajik Unicode fonts from this page, or link to other sites for download.
Why should I use a Unicode font?
Doulos SIL 
The brand new Unicode font from SIL, released 29th March 2004. It supports the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, plus IPA and a large number of special characters.
Almost certainly the only font in existence that supports the optimal positioning of arbitrary combinations of Latin/Cyrillic letters and (multiple) accents, which means that you can do this:
For full details of this font, and to download it, go to this font's homepage. (674KB
download)
Quicklinks: Download page Documentation
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“Tajiki” fonts 
Based on SIL’s version 3 fonts.
A set of four fonts, each with four faces (details).
You must read the licence before downloading.
All downloads here are self-extracting files. After extraction, the fonts need to be installed into the Windows “Fonts” folder.
Download all fonts (except Charis) (396KB)
Download individual fonts:
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Arial Unicode (Microsoft free font) 
This font is included in a number of Microsoft products, including Office 2000 and later. Microsoft also used to offer it as a free download, alas no longer.
It's still available from VersionTracker. Click here.
(Warning: this is a 13.3 MB download. If you have Office 2000 or later, you're recommended to install it from your Office CD. (How?) )
Microsoft's information page on this font.
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Copyright fonts
Palatino Linotype 
The first font with Tajik support to be included in Windows.
Lucida Sans Unicode 
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Keyboard layouts
I have developed keyboard layouts to work with the Keyman keyboard manager from Tavultesoft. My layouts work with Keyman version 5 or above. I hope to develop an integrated installer in the future, but for the moment, you’ll have to separately download and install the following:
- Keyman (version 6 is free for personal/personal educational use only - more)
- one or more keyboard layout files
- one or more fonts
Keyman v5 has a wider licence: it’s free for all educational use. But it has a bug that means not all keys work correctly when Caps Lock is on. To download from Tavultesoft’s site, click here. (If it’s no longer available from Tavultesoft, email me and I’ll make it available on this site.)
Features
The layouts below, used with Tavultesoft Keyman, have the following features:
- characters will be entered as Unicode in any application that supports this (older applications may need a Tavultesoft add-in – see the Tavultesoft website)
- in non-Unicode applications, output is compatible with the “Tajiki” set of fonts above.
“Somoni” layout
- Based on the Russian keyboard, with Tajik letters in place of the Russian letters that are not needed in Tajik.
- Easy to learn, even if you don’t put stickers on the keyboard!
- All Russian letters can still be typed
- Extra features: can type Roman numerals, all ASCII punctuation and a number of useful symbols
Details and download
Qwerty-based layouts
Phonetic layouts
Other downloads
Microsoft Font Properties Extension
This adds a number of very useful tabs to the font properties dialog box (i.e. when you ask Windows to show the properties of a font file).
Go to the download page.
send email to TypeTajik
Copyright David Harper-Jones (all material is freely distributable unless specified otherwise).