Phonetic keyboard layout

It maps Cyrillic characters to phonetically similar English letters, enabling efficient bilingual typing without modifying the physical keyboard layout.

This intuitive layout minimizes the learning curve for users accustomed to English keyboards and enhances typing efficiency in bilingual settings, particularly useful for educational purposes and environments requiring frequent switching between English and Russian or Ukrainian.

Some types of phonetic layouts, such as "Student" and "ЯВЕРТЫ", are not only widely used by Russian-speakers but also recommended by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.

Now, the JCUKEN phonetic layout has been transferred from typewriters to the IBM PC-compatible computers.

A number of ready-made layout files for Microsoft Windows are available online for Russian[4][5] and Belarusian.