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The Ethiopic syllabary is is the [[writing systems|writing system]] used for several languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, including [[Amharic]], Tigrinya, and the liturgical [[Ge'ez language]].
The [http://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Can%27t_see_the_font%3F Resource page for Ethiopic fonts and input methods] at wikipedia is agood place to look.


==Installation==
There are GPL'ed fonts availible for Linux also, please note though that there may be additions to the Unicode standard in the coming years, as languages in Ethiopia are completely analyzed and more linguistic work is done.


Ethiopian support is a work in progress. See [[Ethiopian Setup]].
Other sites of interest on Ethiopic computing


==Fonts==
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The [http://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Can%27t_see_the_font%3F Resource page] for Ethiopic [[fonts]] and [[input methods]] at wikipedia is a good place to look.
The Unicode Standard is available in electronic form from the following web page.


Abyssinica [[SIL]] [[TrueType]] [[fonts]] are included in our builds.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/


===Keyboard===
There is some information about Ethiopic in the following document.


The <code>et</code> keyboard is in the [[xkeyboard-config]] package, already in our builds.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch12.pdf


[http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/keyboards/ethiopic.lsm Ethiopic] [[keyboard layouts|keyboard]] package for [[Linux]]
There is a mention of Ethiopic on pages 4 and 5 of the following document.


[http://www.openroad.net.au/languages/african/harari/keyboards.html Typing in Harari (Ḣarari / ሐረሪ)]
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch06.pdf


===[[Unicode]]===
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Please note that there may be additions to the Ethiopic characters in the [[Unicode]] standard in the coming years, as more linguistic work is done.
The following web page has links for code charts for many of the scripts used for languages.


http://www.unicode.org/charts/
PDFs of multiple [http://www.unicode.org/versions/ versions] of The [[Unicode]] Standard are available.


[http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch12.pdf This document] contains some information about Ethiopic
There are three code charts for Ethiopic.


Ethiopic http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1200.pdf
There is a mention of Ethiopic on pages 4 and 5 of [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch06.pdf this document].


There are code charts for three blocks of Ethiopic characters.
Ethiopic Supplement http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1380.pdf


Ethiopic Extended http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2D80.pdf
[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1200.pdf Ethiopic]

[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1380.pdf Ethiopic Supplement]

[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2D80.pdf Ethiopic Extended]


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[[Category:Languages (international)]]
[[Category:Languages (international)]]
[[Category:Fonts]]

Latest revision as of 02:11, 15 October 2007

The Ethiopic syllabary is is the writing system used for several languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and the liturgical Ge'ez language.

Installation

Ethiopian support is a work in progress. See Ethiopian Setup.

Fonts

The Resource page for Ethiopic fonts and input methods at wikipedia is a good place to look.

Abyssinica SIL TrueType fonts are included in our builds.

Keyboard

The et keyboard is in the xkeyboard-config package, already in our builds.

Ethiopic keyboard package for Linux

Typing in Harari (Ḣarari / ሐረሪ)

Unicode

Please note that there may be additions to the Ethiopic characters in the Unicode standard in the coming years, as more linguistic work is done.

PDFs of multiple versions of The Unicode Standard are available.

This document contains some information about Ethiopic

There is a mention of Ethiopic on pages 4 and 5 of this document.

There are code charts for three blocks of Ethiopic characters.

Ethiopic

Ethiopic Supplement

Ethiopic Extended