Amharic Keyboard

  

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αŠ αˆ›αˆ­αŠ› (Amharic) Keyboard Help

Keyboard Β© 1997-2020. Ge'ez Frontier Foundation.


Overview
Using this Keyboard
Keyboard Layout
Quickstart
Examples
Keyboard Details
Complete Typing Chart - English
Complete Typing Chart - Amharic
Troubleshooting
Further Resources
Related Keyboard Layouts

Amharic Keyboard Online

Technical Information
Authorship

Overview

Amharic Keyboard Lesson

This keyboard is designed for use with the Amharic language of Ethiopia in Africa. Typing follows a consonant-vowel pattern. It is designed for use with a standard (QWERTY) keyboard.

Most computers will automatically download a special font to display this keyboard correctly. However, if the layout or the charts below do not display correctly, please read the troubleshooting guide.

Amharic Keyboard

Click here to see keyboard layouts for other Ethiopic languages, like Awngi, Bench, Blin, Dizi, Ge'ez, Me'en, Mursi, Sebatbeit, Suri and Tigrigna.

Using this Keyboard

Keyboard Layout

Desktop Keyboard Layout

Phone Keyboard Layout

Tablet Keyboard Layout

Note: Longpress keys are not currently visible in this static documentation, and so some additional letters may be accessible through these longpress keys.

Quickstart

This keyboard is designed to work intuitively with a standard (QWERTY) keyboard. This means that the Amharic sounds in this keyboard can be found by thinking of the most similar English letters. For example, you can type selam to get αˆ°αˆ‹αˆ.

As you can see, each Amharic character is typed with the base consonant first and then the vowel. For example, ጀ is typed T then ie.

Keyboard Details

The Amharic keyboard uses an intuitive phonetic system where the Amharic sounds are matched to the nearest English letters. You can think of how a word sounds in Amharic and then type it out with English.

Example: typing selam produces αˆ°αˆ‹αˆ

Because Amharic has more sounds than English, we sometimes have to adjust this rule. For example, English does not have ጠ and the closest similar letter would be t. In this case you should type T, for capital T:

Example: typing TienaysTlN produces αŒ€αŠ“α‹­αˆ΅αŒ₯ልኝ

Notice that we used capital N also for ኝ and we needed both ie together to make the 5th ጠ letter, ጀ. When the letter you want to type does not appear when you hit the similar sounding key in English, try using the capital next. If typing the capital does not work, then try hitting the key two times:

Example: typing sselam produces αˆ αˆ‹αˆ

Example: typing SSeHey produces α€αˆα‹­

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:

Example: typing mua produces ሟ

Example: typing guie produces αŒ”

Finally, we must introduce a special rule for ' (apostrophe). Some words are spelt with a αˆ³α‹΅αˆ΅ (6th) letter followed by a vowel, like ርኀ in ገα‰₯ርኀል. We use the apostrophe here to type gebr'iel to make sure we get ርኀ instead of ሬ.

Example: typing mel'ak produces መልአክ

Example: typing m'eeraf produces αˆα‹•αˆ«α

Type Apostrophe twice after a 6th order letter to make it appear in your document:

Example: typing mel'ak produces መል'አክ

We also use the β€œnumber sign” (β€œ#” also know as the β€œhash mark”) for Ethiopic numbers, so #1 becomes ፩ and so on. If a # is needed in your document before a number, type it twice and: ##1 becomes #1. The double strike works for other punctuation as well, so typing ; once makes ፀ and a second time gives English semicolon ;.

See Typing in Amharic (English) or Typing in Amharic (Amharic) for full details on how to type all Amharic letters, numbers and punctuation.

Troubleshooting

If the characters you type or those on the On Screen Keyboard do not appear to display correctly, please read the KeymanWeb troubleshooting guide.

For any other questions, contact us.

Further Resources

Related Keyboard Layouts

Keyboard Layouts for other Ethiopic languages:

Awngi
Bench
Blin
Dizi
Ge'ez
Me'en
Mursi
Sebatbeit
Suri
Tigrigna (Eritrea)
Tigrigna (Ethiopia)

Keyboard

Other Internet Resources

More on the Amharic Writing System at Omniglot.com
More on the Amharic Language at Wikipedia.org

More on the Ge'ez Script at Omniglot.com
More on the Ge'ez Script at Wikipedia.org

Technical Information

System Requirements

It is recommended that you use an English QWERTY hardware keyboard with this keyboard.

Unicode Version

This keyboard complies with Unicode 4.1

Version History

Version 1.9, 22 Jan 2020
Package migration to Abyssinica SIL 2.000
Version 1.8, 9 Mar 2019
Fix to recognize apostrophe after Salis forms.
Version 1.7, 1 Dec 2018
The apostrophe composition stopper added between lone vowels.
Version 1.6, 6 Sep 2018
The apostrophe composition stopper added after Ka'ib and Salis forms to support some special case words.
Version 1.5, 16 May 2018
Hashmark (#) replaces apostrophe for Ethiopic numeral composition to avoid 'smart quotes' issues.
Version 1.4, 7 May 2015
Added letters ኸ Ke ኹ Ku ኺ Ki ኻ Ka ኼ Kie ኽ K ኾ Ko to the touch layouts.

Keyboard Authorship

This keyboard was created by the Ge'ez Frontier Foundation. SIL International graciously acknowledges the contribution made by the authors in developing this keyboard and making it freely available for use with Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb. Their effort assists in enabling people to communicate in their own language.

Copyright and Terms of Use

The Amharic keyboard layout for Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb is Copyright 1997-2018 Ge'ez Frontier Foundation and SIL International. It may be freely distributed and used under the terms of The MIT License.

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