AMHARIC TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD HOW TO

AMHARIC TYPEWRITER KEYBOARD HOW TO

įor full details on how to type all Amharic letters, numbers and punctuation. So typing once makes ፤ and a second time gives English semicolon. The double strike works for other punctuation as well, If a # is needed in your document before a number, type it twice and: #1 becomes #1. We also use the “number sign” (“#” also know as the “hash mark”) for Ethiopic numbers, so #1 becomes ፩ and so on. Type Apostrophe twice after a 6 th order letter to make it appear in your document: We use the apostrophe here to type gebr'iel to make sure we get ርኤ instead of ሬ. Some words are spelt with a ሳድስ (6 th) letter followed by a vowel, like ርኤ in ገብርኤል. Next, when you need to type the extra letters of Amharic like ሏ, ሟ, ኴ you can do so by typing an extra vowel after a u:įinally, we must introduce a special rule for ' (apostrophe). If typing the capital does not work, then try hitting the key two times: When the letter you want to type does not appear when you hit the similar sounding key in English, try using the capital next. Click or press the Shift key for additional Amharic letters that are not visible on the keyboard. Notice that we used capital N also for ኝ and we needed both ie together to make the 5th ጠ letter, ጤ. How it works Use the Virtual Amharic Keyboard by typing on your own keyboard as though it’s the virtual keyboard, or by clicking the keys on the virtual keyboard directly with your mouse. Accurate next word prediction for fastest. Helps to type in almost all Ethiopian and Eritrean languages. Built on top of the latest technologies to help you write in Latin and Geez scripts. In this case you should type T, for capital T:Įxample: typing TienaysTlN produces ጤናይስጥልኝ Multi - language keyboard supporting Amharic, Tigrinya and Afaan Oromoo, Arabic languages. For example, English does not have ጠ and the closest similar letter would be t. You can think of how a word sounds inĪmharic and then type it out with English.īecause Amharic has more sounds than English, we sometimes have to adjust this

The Amharic keyboard uses an intuitive phonetic system where the Amharic sounds are matched to the nearest English letters.

Amharic typewriter keyboard