Software/app to create my own keyboard?

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I've created an alphabet with symbols unlike any already in existance. I'm wondering if there is an app or software I can use to create a keyboard using my alphabet.

You can probably print stickers of the alphabet and put them on a keyboard. Software support for such a thing will be extremely limited. I guess you could make a custom font, and use of the Unicode private use areas for your alphabet, but nobody else will be able to read anything you type unless they're using your custom font.

Do you mean a computer font, where you type F on the keyboard and it apears as your glyph? In which case, try Fontforge; you can even load in hand-drawn images and it will convert them to the format it needs. I#ve made one that came out like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cmkjy1wqvv8q54h/example.png?dl=0

Or do you mean a physical keyboard? In which case I would suggest either as saxgeek does, and print labels (or even 3D print new keys) for an existing keyboard, or work on building your own using a microcontroller (though this would be really difficault).