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spir-12266	Zaugg, Isabelle Alice; Reeve, Jonathan	THE HEGEMONY OF KEYBOARD DEFAULTS	2021.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1484	77	46	While widely recognized as a political move to distance ethnic Oromos from other Ethiopic language communities, one official justification given was that Latin characters are better supported by digital technologies (Yimam 1992). Furthermore, considering the global reach of QWERTY against the backdrop of language diversity, and particularly the approximately 300 non-Latin scripts in existence, the hegemony of default QWERTY keyboards is a manifestation of the ongoing impacts of the colonial legacy within digital technologies.	cache/spir-12266.pdf	txt/spir-12266.txt