iOS 8: Problem With Japanese Keyboard

A number of users have found that updating to iOS 8 makes the Japanese keyboard non-functional.  A possible fix for this is to reset the keyboard dictionary, via

Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary.

OS X: New Mongolian Keyboard Layout

Thanks to Mukhbayar Batkhuu there is a new Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard layout for OS X available at

Mongollian Keyboard for Mac


Another one can be found at

Mountainedge

And a QWERTY version can be had here.

3rd Party Keyboards for iOS 8

3rd Party keyboards are becoming available for iOS 8.  This article has one list.

If readers come across any which are useful for languages other than English, let me know.   So far:

+Sangam for Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Assamese, with suggestions, autocorrect, and next-word prediction.

+Georgian Keyboard and Adaptxt claims 90 languages.

+My Script Stack claims handwriting recognition for about 60 languages.

+FarsiKeys for Persian/Farsi.

+Black Keys for IPA, Persian, Aramaic Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic,Inuktatut, Burmese, Amharic, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Uyghur, Lao, Kazakh, Georgian, Armenian,Sinhala, Bangla, Malayalam, Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi

+Nepali Pro Keyboard

+Keyman Pro claims to cover 600 languages.

+Translit transliteration layouts for Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Belarus, Georgian, Greek, Macedonian.

+IPAChart for IPA characters.

+Davka Nikud for pointed Hebrew.

New Keyboards and System Languages in iOS 8

Apple has added keyboards for English (India),  Bengali, Filipino, Marathi, Slovenian,  and Urdu in the new version of iOS released 9/17/14.

The settings formerly available for us additional hardware-type keyboard layouts with iOS devices are no longer available.   For example, under English these were:  us, dvorak, colemak, us international-pc, us extended, british, french, german, spanish-iso, italian, dutch, belgian.

iOS 8 is supposed to have the ability to use custom keyboard layouts, and perhaps that will help make up for that omission.

New system localizations are Hindi and Tamil.

iPhone 6 Language Support

From Tech Specs published 9/17/14:

Language support

English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), Chinese (Simplified, Traditional, Traditional Hong Kong), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Mexico, Spain), Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

QuickType keyboard support

English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, U.S.), Chinese - Simplified (Handwriting, Pinyin, Stroke), Chinese - Traditional (Cangjie, Handwriting, Pinyin, Stroke, Sucheng, Zhuyin), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Japanese (Kana, Romaji), Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cherokee, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Emoji, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese

QuickType keyboard support with predictive input9

English (Australia, Canada, India, UK, U.S.) Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai

Siri languages

English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Mainland China, Taiwan), Cantonese (Hong Kong)

Dictation languages

English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.), French (Canada, France, Switzerland), German (Germany, Switzerland), Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Mainland China, Taiwan), Cantonese (Hong Kong), Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Swedish, Turkish, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Definition dictionary support

English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Thai, Turkish

Bilingual dictionary support

Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish

Spell check

English (Australia, Canada, UK, U.S.), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Russian, Swedish, Turkish