Thanks to Farid Alkorashy, there is a new Arabic keyboard for MacOS for those who need or prefer the Windows Arabic layout. Unlike Apple's "Arabic PC" input source, it puts Arabic numbers (instead of the Hindu form) on the top level, so there is no need to use Caps Lock to access them. You can download it here ..read more

Apple's preview of iOS 17 indicates the following new language features: QuickPath support added for Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, and Romanian keyboards. Predictive text added for Hebrew, Polish, and Romanian keyboards. Multilingual typing support added for Polish, Romanian, and Turkish keyboards. New keyboard layouts: Akan, Chuvash, Hausa, Hmong (Pahawh), Ingush, Kabyle, Liangshan Yi ..read more

Apple's Preview of MacOS 14 Sonoma released 9/12/23 indicates the following new language features: Predictive text added for Hebrew, Polish, and Romanian keyboards. New keyboard layouts: Chuvash, Hmong (Pahawh), Ingush, Kabyle, Mandaic, Mi’kmaw, N’Ko, Osage, Rejang, Tamazight (Standard Moroccan), Wancho, and Wolastoqey New transliteration keyboards: Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu ..read more

While MacOS comes with a Sanskrit Devanagari keyboard, this lacks a number of characters that users of this language may require, including special symbols and Vedic accents and cantillation marks. If you need those, check out the Keyman app and its Vedic Sanskrit Devanagari Phonetic Keyboard. This keyboard is also available for iOS and browser use. If you need to type transliterated ..read more

Thanks to Marco Sartori, a new input method is availble for typing Cuneiform script, which is used to write various languages of the ancient Middle East. It can be downloaded from this page. Put the .inputplugin file in Library/Input Methods or Home/Library/Input Methods and then activate it via the plus button in System Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources. Look for it in the Simplified ..read more

Apple plans to release MacOS Ventura on Monday, Oct. 24, and has published a new list of features. As far as I can tell, the new language features are the same as reported here earlier ..read more

See this page for info on Apple's keyboards for Arabic, Bulgarian*, Greek*, Hebrew*, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Chinese (Zhuyin), Thai*, and Ukrainian. The keyboards marked with an asterisk are not available in the US online store and may be difficult to find outside the country where they are used ..read more

Apple has published a preview of the new features in iOS 16 to be released in the fall. For the language area these additions include: System Languages: Bulgarian and Kazakh Keyboard languages: Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, Yiddish Dictionaries: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, Kannada–English, Malayalam–English, and Turkish–English Translation: Turkish, Thai ..read more

Apple has published a preview of the new features in MacOS 13 Ventura to be released in the fall. For the language area these additions include: System Languages: Bulgarian and Kazakh Keyboard languages: Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, Yiddish Dictionaries: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, Kannada–English, Malayalam–English, and Turkish–English Translation ..read more

The latest update of MacOS 12 Monterey replaces the remaining multicolor country flag icons for different language keyboard layout with black/white symbols containing idenfying characters for the language. Users who want to keep the traditional flags can make a customized layout with any icon they want with Ukelele ..read more