FN Keys

Roadmap

A keyboard for every Indigenous language in Canada

Free keyboards, co-designed with Elders and checked by fluent speakers, for more than 70 languages. We start at home in Saskatchewan and work outward, one language at a time.

  1. 1 Co-design with Elders
  2. 2 Fluent speakers check every key
  3. 3 Free keyboards on every device
  4. 4 Physical keyboards where there is demand
  • Available
  • Draft in testing
  • Not started
  1. 2027-28Phase 1

    Saskatchewan

    Dene and Plains Cree are done. Next, fluent speakers check them, and we add the province's other languages.

    9 languages · 2 available now

    • Dene (Dënesųłiné)
    • Plains Cree (nēhiyawēwin)
    • Woods Cree
    • Swampy Cree
    • Saulteaux (Nakawēmowin)
    • Nakota
    • Dakota
    • Lakota
    • Michif
  2. 2028-30Phase 2

    Alberta and Manitoba

    Neighbouring Prairie languages, many already running as drafts in FN Keys Write.

    8 languages

    • Blackfoot (Siksikáí'powahsin)
    • Oji-Cree (Anishininiimowin)
    • Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin)
    • Swampy and Rock Cree
    • Stoney (Nakoda)
    • Tsuut'ina
    • Dene Thá
    • Slavey
  3. 2029-31Phase 3

    Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada

    Eastern languages, written in both Latin letters and syllabics.

    13 languages

    • Ojibwe
    • Oji-Cree
    • Moose, Swampy and East Cree
    • Mohawk (Kanien'kéha)
    • Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora
    • Potawatomi, Munsee
    • Algonquin (Anicinabemowin)
    • Atikamekw
    • Innu (Innu-aimun)
    • Naskapi
    • Mi'kmaq
    • Wolastoqey
    • Wendat
  4. 2030-32Phase 4

    British Columbia

    About half of Canada's Indigenous languages, many with very few speakers left. We would work alongside existing community and language programs.

    23 languages

    • Dakelh (Carrier)
    • Halkomelem
    • Gitxsan
    • Nisga'a
    • Secwepemctsín
    • Tsilhqot'in
    • Kwak'wala
    • Nsyilxcən
    • Nuu-chah-nulth
    • St'át'imcets
    • Nlaka'pamuxtsín
    • Sm'algyax
    • Skwxwú7mesh
    • Heiltsuk
    • Haisla
    • SENĆOŦEN
    • Witsuwit'en
    • Tāłtān
    • Dane-zaa
    • Haida
    • Ktunaxa
    • Tse'khene
    • Tlingit
  5. 2030-32Phase 5

    The territories

    Northern languages in the NWT and Yukon.

    9 languages · 1 available now

    • Tłı̨chǫ
    • North and South Slavey
    • Dënesųłiné
    • Northern and Southern Tutchone
    • Gwich'in
    • Kaska
    • Tagish
    • Hän
    • Upper Tanana
  6. AlongsideAlso planned

    Inuit and Metis languages

    Part of the plan, with different partners and funders.

    4 languages

    • Inuktitut
    • Inuinnaqtun
    • Inuvialuktun
    • Michif

Languages move up the list when a community asks and Elders can take part. Dates after 2028 depend on funding. Draft layouts are based on open-source Keyman keyboards (MIT License) and can be tried in FN Keys Write.

Want your language sooner, or want to help check a layout? Email .