+ © English The Ge’ez Frontier Foundation Keyboard for Amharic (A77C%) Language Introduction This is an Amharic (amh, A°7C%) language mnemonic input method that applies Ethiopian writing conventions. It requires a font supporting Ethiopic script under the Unicode 3.0 standard (two historic punctuation marks require Unicode 4.1 support). The Amharic keyboard is “mnemonic” and designed for the US English QWERTY keyboard. This means that the keyboard is designed to be intuitive and natural with respect to the sounds available in the English language via the standard English keyboard (known as QWERTY). The keyboard also supports mnemonic mappings from non-English letters found in European keyboards. A more complete typing manual is provided as a PDF file with this distribution. Typing Letters Only the letters used in Amharic may be typed with this keyboard. To type additional Ethiopic letters used ‘by other languages, please download a keyboard for the language needed or the Janguage-neutral Keyboard that supports composition of all Ethiopic symbols found in Unicode 4.1 Special Not © Apostrophe, ', is a terminator following a 420 (6" form) letter. For example: gebr'iel becomes ‘MACHA, gebriel becomes WBA. 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