LaserSalish™ in Unicode™ is available for both Windows and Macintosh and provides professional-quality, Unicode-encoded Salish fonts in TrueType® OpenType® format in five typestyles (Times®-, Helvetica®-, Garamond-, Palatino®-, and Zapf Chancery®-styles), each in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles (except SalishChanU, which is plain only). LaserSalish in Unicode fonts contain the entire character set for many northwest Native American Salishan languages, plus Kootenai, plus English and other west European (or Latin 1) languages. The product includes keyboard software allowing intuitive input of all the special characters used in Salish. The LaserSalishU fonts support at least the following Salishan languages:

For a list of other Salish languages, dialects, and sub-dialects that may be supported by these fonts, plus alternate spellings, see below.

LaserSalish in Unicode includes two keyboard layouts. The keyboards are phonetic, based on the US keyboard, and allow easy input of all characters and diacritics supported by the fonts.

The first keyboard layout takes advantage of the OpenType layout features built into the fonts for the most logical, intuitive input possible. Input order is letter, accent, accent. The letter with its associated diacritics is built up automatically as you type, with all diacritics perfectly spaced. The included keyboard chart shows which keystrokes the user must type.

This keyboard requires Unicode- and OpenType-compatible applications. See the System Requirements for Windows and Macintosh, below, for a list of the applications that support this input method.

The second keyboard layout works with any Unicode-compatible application and uses dead key input to type letters with their associated diacritics. The user first types the dead key (representing the accent) and nothing appears to happen on screen. Then the user types the letter and the accented letter appears in the file. For example:

In these examples the user types the accent key followed by the letter, and the keyboard software inputs the pre-composed, accented letter into the document. Notice the case of the letter determines the case of the final output. Type the accent key plus a lowercase letter to get a lowercase accented letter; type the same accent key plus an uppercase letter to get an uppercase accented letter. This means you only need to learn the location on the keyboard for each accent to be able to type lower- or uppercase letters. Touch typing your Salish language will become easy and natural.

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Following is detailed information about the Windows and Macintosh products, followed by font samples. Please be sure to read the System Requirements for Windows or Macintosh before ordering.

LaserSalish in Unicode for Windows

Do you need to upgrade? Check the current version number and a Release History.

See samples of all typestyles.

(Before you order be sure you have read the System Requirements, above.)

See samples of all typestyles.

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Font Samples 

LaserSalish in Unicode is available in five typestyles (Times®-, Helvetica®-, Garamond-, Palatino®-, and Zapf Chancery®-styles). Below are samples in each typestyle demonstrating many of the special characters in the fonts that are needed to type Salishan languages. In addition, you will see samples of the bold, italic, and bold-italic weights of the fonts (except SalishChanU, which is plain only).

See below for
LaserSalishU (Times-style)
LaserSalishSansU (Helvetica-style)
LaserSalishGaraU (Garamond-style)
LaserSalishPalaU (Palatino-style)
LaserSalishChanU (Zapf-Chancery-style)

Or buy LaserSalish Professional in Unicode to get all five typestyles at a discounted price.

Alternate spellings, additional Salish languages, dialects, and sub-dialects which may also be supported:

This list includes the languages listed above, along with additional Salish languages, dialects, and sub-dialects which may be supported by the LaserSalishU fonts, as well as alternate spellings: Arrow Lakes, Becher Bay, Bella Coola, Bitterroot Salish, Canim Lake (Shuswap), Chehalis, Chelan, Chewelah, Chilliwack, Chobaabish, Chu Chua  (Shuswap), Clallam, Coast Salish, Coeur d'Alene, Columbia-Moses, Columbian, Colville, Colville-Inchelium, Colville-Okanagan, Comox, Couteau (Thompson River), Cowichan, Cowlitz, Deadman's Creek-Kamloops (Shuswap), Duwamish, Eastern Klallam, Entiat, Flathead, Fraser River (Shuswap), Garibaldi-Nestucca, Hakamaugh, Halkomelem, Homalco-Klahoose-Sliammon, Homamish, Humptulips, Interior Salish, Island Comox, Kalispel, Katzie, Kikiallus, Kimsquit, Kinbasket (Shuswap), Klackarpun, Klallam, Knife (Thompson River), K'omoks, Kwantlen, Kwatna, Kwehtlmamish, Lakes, Lilloet, Lillooet, Lower Chehalis, Lower Cowlitz, Lower Kalispel, Lower Pend d'Oreille, Lower Skagit-Swinomish, Lummi, Lushootseed, Lytton, Mesekwegwils, Meshal, Methow, Miskaiwhu, Mount Currie-Douglas (St'at'imcets), Muckleshoot (Lushootseed), Musqueam, Nanaimo, Nehalem, Nicola Valley, Nisqually, Nlaka'pamuctsin, Nlaka'pamux, Nookachamps, Nooksack, North Straits (Northern Straits), Npoqínišcn, Nsilxcín, Nsyilxcn, Ntlakapmuk, Nusebchatl, Nuwhaha, Nuxált, Oakville Chehalis, Okanagan, Olympic, Pavilion-Bonaparte (Shuswap), Pend D'Oreille, Penticton Similkameen, Pentlatch, Pesquous, Puntlatch, Puntledge, Puyallup, Qalispé, Qlispé, Queets, Quilcene, Quilchena, Quinault, Qulispé, Saanich, Sahewamish, Saktamish, Samish, Sammamish, San Poil-Nespelem, Satsop, Sauk, Sauk-Suiattle, Sduhubš, Sechelt, Secwepemctsí, Secwepemctsín, Séliš, Semiahmoo, Seshelt, Sháshíshálh, Shashishalhem, Shotlemamish, Shuswap, Siletz, Skagit (Lushootseed), Skokomish, Skopamish, Skway, Skykomish, Sliammon, Smaliwhu, Smulkamish, Snchitsu'umshtsn, Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Snuneymuxw, Songhees, Songish, Sooke, Southern Okanagan, Spaxomin, Spokane, Spuzzum-Boston Bar, Squamish, Squaxin, Squaxin Island (Lushootseed), Squiaitl, Squiuamish, Staktalijamish, St'at'imcets, Stehcass, Steilacoom, Stillaguamish, Stkamish, Stkehlmish, Straits, Suiattle, Suquamish, Swinomish (Lushootseed), Tait, Tallheo, Tapeeksin, Tenino Chehalis, Thompson, Thompson Canyon, Thompson River, Tillamook, Tkwakwamish, Tsamosan, Tuwáduqutšad, Twana, Upper Chehalis, Upper Pend d'Oreille, Upper Skagit, Vernon, Wenatchee, Western Klallam, Westport-Shoalwater, Whulshootseed, Wynoochee, and Yilalkoamish.

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LaserSalish - For a non-Unicode version of LaserSalish, available for both Windows and Macintosh, see LaserSalish. The non-Unicode font is not interchangeable with LaserSalish in Unicode, but contains a font with the same typestyle, covering the same languages, which will work in non-Unicode applications, such as QuarkXPress 6.5 and older, PageMaker, FrameMaker, and WordPerfect. Both Unicode and non-Unicode versions of LaserSalish may be installed on your system (since they have different file and font names) and may even be used in the same documents. They are not, however, interchangeable (you cannot type text with one font, highlight the text, and change it to the other font) because the encodings are different.

LaserSalish Converter - Converts LaserSalish (ASCII-encoded) text in Word documents to the LaserSalishU Unicode-encoded fonts.