Hello Apple Keyboard / Internationalization team,
I would like to ask about autocorrection and predictive text support for additional Cyrillic-based languages, especially Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Chuvash, and Ingush.
These languages use Cyrillic scripts with their own letters, spelling rules, and word-frequency patterns. When users type in these languages, Russian-based autocorrection or missing language-specific correction can produce incorrect suggestions or replacements.
My questions are:
Are there plans to expand autocorrection and predictive text support for more Cyrillic-based languages? Is there a recommended way for developers or language communities to provide dictionaries, word-frequency lists, corpora, or other linguistic data to help improve autocorrection? Should this type of request be submitted through Feedback Assistant, Developer Forums, or another Apple channel? I have corpus-based frequency data and language resources for multiple Cyrillic-based languages and would be happy to share them if useful.
Thank you.
Ali Kuzhuget
We can’t comment on future directions, but we’d definitely love to hear your suggestions on how autocorrection and predictive text could be better for Cyrillic-based languages. Please feel free to file feedback reports for the team to consider.
Also check out this other answer, which might interest you: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/833125?answerId=892788022#892788022
– Rafael