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Pak Urdu Phonetic

Pak Urdu Phonetic is an Urdu keyboard layout faithfully ported from the popular Windows-based Pak Urdu Installer layout by mBilalm. It offers the same simple, intuitive phonetic typing experience and brings this widely adopted standard to the Keyman platform for cross-platform use.

With over 160+ unique key mappings across regular, Shift, AltGr (Right Alt), and Shift+AltGr combinations, this layout offers the most complete phonetic Urdu typing solution available — more comprehensive than any previous Urdu keyboard layout to date.

→ View project on GitHub
→ Installation instructions and keymap

Merged PRs:

• ✅ PR #3633: Keyman port – Ported Pak Urdu Installer layout for Keyman
  – Includes an additional mapping for U+FDFB (ﷻ) on AltGr+Shift+X
• ✅ PR #839: XKB integration – Merged and released — available in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and other latest Linux distros.

Last updated: 2026-05-07