page_title: Rohingya language
section_title: Rohingya Hanifi script
hierarchical_section_title: Rohingya language / Writing systems / Rohingya Hanifi script
caption_attribution_description: English: Rohingya virtual keyboard, or Rohingya “on-screen” keyboard, lets you type directly in Rohingya language script in an easy and consistent manner, no matter where you are or what computer you’re using.
context_page_description: Rohingya, also known as Ruáingga, is a language spoken by the Rohingya people of Rakhine State. It is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Bengali–Assamese branch, and is related to the Chittagonian language spoken in neighboring Bangladesh. The Rohingya language and Chittagonian are considered mutually intelligible.
context_section_description: The Hanifi Rohingya script is a unified script for the Rohingya language. Rohingya was first written in the 19th century with a version of the Perso-Arabic script. In 1975, an orthographic Arabic script was developed, based on the Urdu alphabet.
  In the 1980s, (Maolana) Mohammad Hanif and his colleagues created the suitable phonetic script based on Arabic letters; it has been compared to the N’ko script. The script also includes a set of decimal numbers.
  A virtual keyboard was developed by Google for the Rohingya language in 2019 and allows users to type directly in Rohingya script. The Rohingya Unicode keyboard layout can be found here.
caption: Layout of the Rohingya virtual keyboard.
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