17. The handheld device of claim 11 , further comprising: an input apparatus comprising a plurality of input keys, wherein the ambiguous input comprises one or more selections of the input keys, and wherein the operations further comprise: generating a plurality of prefix objects based on permutations of linguistic elements assigned to the selected input keys of the ambiguous input.
19. The handheld device of claim 17 , wherein the operations further comprise: outputting a language object corresponding with one of the plurality of prefix objects.