Keyboard Layouts

Borno offers a variety of layouts to suit different typing styles. Choose a layout below to see its specific key mapping:

• Borno Phonetic: The flagship intuitive phonetic layout.
• Avro Phonetic: Popular transliteration-based layout.
• Khipro: Fast and Shift-Key less compositional layout.
• National (Fixed): The standard fixed layout for professional typing.

Layout Modes

Some layouts support different operational modes that can be switched via the layout menu:

Borno Phonetic Modes

• LM Mode: Uses our Language Model for direct output and smarter, context-aware word suggestions.
• Regular Mode: Uses standard phonetic transliteration rules and appends smarter suggestion using the language model.

Fixed Layout Modes

• Traditional Mode: Follows the classic layout rules for fixed keyboards (e.g., Traditional Jatiyo).
• Regular Mode: Uses the modern standard layout rules.