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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 language Ge'ez. |
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==Fonts== |
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Other sites of interest on Ethiopic computing |
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Abyssinica [[SIL]] [[TrueType]] [[fonts]] are included in Debian and other [[Linux]] distributions in the package ttf-abyssinica-sil. |
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===Keyboard=== |
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The Unicode Standard is available in electronic form from the following web page. |
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[http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/keyboards/ethiopic.lsm Ethiopic] [[keyboard layouts|keyboard]] package for [[Linux]] |
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http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/ |
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===Unicode=== |
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There is some information about Ethiopic in the following document. |
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PDFs of multiple [http://www.unicode.org/versions/ versions] of The Unicode Standard are available. |
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There is a mention of Ethiopic on pages 4 and 5 of the following document. |
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http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ |
[http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch12.pdf This document] contains some information about Ethiopic |
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There are code charts for three blocks of Ethiopic characters. |
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http://www.unicode.org/charts/ |
[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1200.pdf Ethiopic] |
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There are three code charts for Ethiopic. |
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[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2D80.pdf Ethiopic Extended] |
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Ethiopic Extended http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2D80.pdf |
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[[Category:Languages (international)]] |
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Revision as of 22:41, 24 October 2006
The Ethiopic syllabary is is the [[writing systems|writing system] used for several languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and the liturgical language Ge'ez.
Fonts
The Resource page for Ethiopic fonts and input methods at wikipedia is agood place to look.
Abyssinica SIL TrueType fonts are included in Debian and other Linux distributions in the package ttf-abyssinica-sil.
Keyboard
Ethiopic keyboard package for Linux
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.