Russian has two popular keyboard layouts: •
JCUKEN • phonetic layout, also known as "ЯВЕРТЫ" or "ЯЖЕРТЫ" In the latter, the
Cyrillic letters are on the same keys as similarly-sounding
Roman letters: А-A, Б-B, В-V, Г-G, Д-D, Ф-F, К-K, О-O and so on. There are Russian phonetic layouts based on the
QWERTY layout and others based on other localized layouts. The Russian phonetic layout is especially suited for foreigners studying Russian and for many Russian-speakers living outside Russia. Some types of phonetic layouts, such as "Student" and "ЯВЕРТЫ", are not only widely used by Russian-speakers but also recommended by the
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. In some countries, such as
Germany,
Czech Republic,
Sweden and
Poland, there are local variants of the phonetic layout keyboard because of the peculiarities of the local keyboard layouts. Historically, Soviet computers used the phonetic variant of the
JCUKEN keyboard layout that were manufactured in the
COMECON like the
Pravets-8 model, which used the layout for
ЯВЕРТЫ/QWERTY. Now, the JCUKEN phonetic layout has been transferred from
typewriters to the
IBM PC-compatible computers. == Operating system support ==