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No, the keys on a typical computer keyboard are not in the order of the alphabet. Two popular keyboard designs (based on the order of letters on the first row) are QWERTY and DVORAK.
alphabet keys type letters and number keys type number alphabet keys:qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm number keys:1234567890
Assuming you meant on a computer's keyboard? The alphabet keys are marked with the 26 letters of the alphabet, such as QWERTY and so on, and, basically, are used to type characters on to a document.
Phonetic keys are often written using the International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA.
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Here is how i categorize it: The alphabet keys: 26 Number keys: 20 Unless i accidentlely miscounted, the number of keys on a normal laptop or computer keyboard is 99.
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Original typewriters didn't have quite as many keys as computer keyboards today do. They had letters of the alphabet, numbers and symbols across the tops of the numbers, with a shift key for capital letters, and a caps lock key, plus a tab key and a backspace key. These keys were arranged in the identical order as the same keys are on today's keyboards. Instead of a "return" key, they had a manual level on the right of the typewriter that you reached up and pulled to the left (using your right hand) to advance to the beginning of the next line.
The QWERTY layout of typewriter's characters was to avoid fast typists from jamming the keys when the keys were set out originally as ABC.
Because that's the order of the keys on the top row of letters.
27 alphabet
Q,W,E,R,T,Y,U,I,O,P. These are the letters of the alphabet. Other keys include [ { ] } \ |