QWERTZ
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The QWERTZ keyboard layout |
The
QWERTZ or
QWERTZU keyboard is a
computer and
typewriter keyboard that is normally used in
German-speaking regions. The name comes from the first six letters at the top left of the keyboard:
Q,
W,
E,
R,
T, and
Z.
It differs from the
QWERTY layout by interchanging the "Z" and "Y" keys â€" both because "Z" is a much more common letter than "Y" in German (the latter seldom appearing except in borrowed words), and because "T" and "Z" often appear next to each other in the
German language. Part of the keyboard is adapted to include local
diacritics, such as
ö,
ä,
ü, etc. There is also a
Euro key. Some special symbols also have a different place.
Models based on QWERTZ are used in
Switzerland, and in the majority of
Eastern Europe and
Central Europe countries that use the
Latin alphabet, with the exception of
Estonia,
Lithuania and
Poland.
A QWERTZ keyboard layout is sometimes informally
nicknamed a
kezboard, as typing the word
keyboard in the
QWERTY manner on a QWERTZ keyboard would generate the sequence
kezboard. The same is true for QWERTY-Keyboards in the hands of a person used to a QWERTZ layout.
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QWERTY*
AZERTY*
Blickensderfer typewriter*
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard*
XPeRT
