Catalan Keyboard Online – Free Virtual Català Keyboard
Free Online Catalan Keyboard – Accents, ç and the Interpunct on Dedicated Keys
Welcome to the Catalan keyboard online (teclat català). Click the keys on screen, or type on your physical keyboard and let the matching character appear above. One thing first: the keys 1 to 5 carry accented letters, so hold Shift for those five digits.
What sits where. Most accented letters take spare keys around the alphabet: à and è are the two keys right of P, with é beside them, while ò and ó sit right of L and í at the top left. Shift gives their capitals. The remaining four, ú, ü, ï and ç, take the keys 1 to 4, with the interpunct · on 5.
Why this layout exists. Catalan has no widely used keyboard of its own. Speakers type on the Spanish or French ISO keyboard and build accented letters with dead keys: press the accent, nothing appears, then press the vowel. An on-screen keyboard cannot do that, since every click must produce a character, so each accented letter gets a key here.
Grave against acute. Catalan distinguishes open and closed vowels in writing; Spanish does not. The grave marks the open sounds in è and ò, the acute the closed sounds in é and ó, and choosing the wrong one is a spelling error, not a typographic detail. The letter à always takes a grave; í and ú always an acute.
ç and the diaeresis. The letter ç, called c trencada or broken c, gives the s sound before a, o and u, and closes words like feliç and braç. The diaeresis on ï and ü marks a vowel pronounced separately from its neighbour, as in raïm and veïna, and a u that must be heard in qüestió and aigües.
The interpunct is why this page exists. Catalan writes the geminate l as l·l, with a raised dot between the letters, in words such as col·legi, il·lusió and paral·lel. No other language uses it, and it is constantly mistyped as a full stop or a bullet. The dot on this keyboard is the correct middle dot character.
Around ten million people speak Catalan: in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands, in Andorra where it is the sole official language, in French Roussillon and in Alghero, Sardinia. Related keyboards: open the Spanish keyboard or the French AZERTY keyboard from the Layout dropdown.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I type l·l on this Catalan keyboard?
Type l, then click the key numbered 5 on the top row, which carries the interpunct, then type l again. The character it inserts is the middle dot that Catalan orthography requires, not a full stop, a bullet or a hyphen, so col·legi and novel·la come out correctly spelled and will match in a search.
Where have the digits gone?
Only the first five moved. The keys 1 to 5 carry ú, ü, ï, ç and the interpunct, with those digits on Shift, while 6, 7, 8, 9 and 0 behave exactly as they always do. Hold Shift on the first five keys and the top row types 1 to 5 as normal.
How is this different from the official Spanish or Catalan keyboard?
A physical Spanish or French keyboard produces accents with dead keys, pressing an accent then a vowel, and keeps every digit on the number row. An on-screen keyboard cannot do dead keys, since every click has to output something, so this layout gives each accented letter a key of its own and borrows the first five digit keys.
Can I type accented capitals like À and Ç?
Six of them, yes. À, È, É, Í, Ò and Ó all type on Shift, because those letters sit on spare keys where Shift is free. The four on the number keys are the exception, since Shift there gives the digit, so Ú, Ü, Ï and Ç are not available — type the lowercase letter and capitalise it in the app you paste into.
What is the difference between è and é?
The grave accent on è marks an open vowel and the acute on é marks a closed one, and the same split applies to ò against ó. This is a real distinction in Catalan pronunciation and spelling that Spanish does not make, so the two accents are not interchangeable and swapping them counts as a misspelling.
When does Catalan use ç?
The c trencada writes an s sound where a plain c would be read as k, which means before a, o and u, and at the end of a word. You see it in words such as caça, forçar, braç and feliç. On this layout it sits on the 4 key of the top row.
Why do Catalan words have ï and ü?
The diaeresis shows that a vowel is pronounced on its own rather than merging with the one beside it, as in raïm, veïna and països. On ü it also marks a u that must actually be heard after q or g, giving qüestió, freqüent and aigües rather than the silent u of que and guerra.
Will my Catalan text paste correctly into other apps?
Yes. Everything this keyboard produces is standard Unicode, so accented letters, ç and the interpunct survive copying into word processors, email, messaging apps and websites. Note that l·l is three characters rather than one, which is exactly how Catalan text is stored everywhere else too.
Is the Catalan keyboard free, private and usable on mobile?
Yes on all three counts. There is no charge, no account and no usage limit, and the site is funded by advertising. All typing is processed locally in your browser and never sent to a server. The layout is responsive, so you can tap out Catalan on an Android or iOS phone or tablet.
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