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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.
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.


==Fonts==
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.


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.
Other sites of interest on Ethiopic computing


Abyssinica [[SIL]] [[TrueType]] [[fonts]] are included in Debian and other [[Linux]] distributions in the package ttf-abyssinica-sil.
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===Keyboard===
The Unicode Standard is available in electronic form from the following web page.


[http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/keyboards/ethiopic.lsm Ethiopic] [[keyboard layouts|keyboard]] package for [[Linux]]
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/


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


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.
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch12.pdf


PDFs of multiple [http://www.unicode.org/versions/ versions] of The Unicode Standard are available.
There is a mention of Ethiopic on pages 4 and 5 of the following document.


http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch06.pdf
[http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch12.pdf This document] contains some information about Ethiopic


There is a mention of Ethiopic on pages 4 and 5 of [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/ch06.pdf this document].
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The following web page has links for code charts for many of the scripts used for languages.
There are code charts for three blocks of Ethiopic characters.


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


[http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1380.pdf Ethiopic Supplement]
There are three code charts for Ethiopic.


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


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

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

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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.

Ethiopic

Ethiopic Supplement

Ethiopic Extended