The Ge’ez Frontier Foundation Keyboard for Ge’ez Language Introduction This is a Ge'ex. (201, ISO-639-2: gez) language mnemonic input method, It requires a font supporting Ethiopic script under the Unicode 4.1 standard. The Ge’ez 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 Letter Only the letters used in the Ge’ez language 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 language-neutral keyboard that supports composition of all Ethiopic symbols found in Unicode 4.1 Special Notes: + Apostrophe, ', is a terminator following a 8-A (6th form) letter. For example: mel'ak becomes @*AKH, melak becomes #4h ‘+ The keystroke of *x’ is added for the ‘*Y" family in agreement with classic Ge’ez phonology and modem transliteration conventions. + The keystroke of ‘D’ is added for the ‘8’ family in agreement with classic Ge’ez phonology. Arad Hoa ANU end Sen ARMAND NDE NORE MOR: Heke ness aon hen IAN ee BH + 4 5 “1 rem Key jee) aU) ft) aA] WEL 00} KE). ot} ll aad Teel ve h Ub he % vo Ce * nm a 2 h Ag fl] A @ A A & A te 4a 1 hod H & de ah dt ak a bh 1% [mM] oo om 9 op ge 4 m wort ssw PY an 1 cAh [rR] 6 & 6 & & c ¢ az r ar s A & mA 4 a a a a 8 ae [qQ] & &€ & FS & > & & o fal gz ® ke ar [DB] on & m2 4 o 1 A 0. b ao t tk tk eh tb OF a t ace [xX}hha + 2 5 % 4 Te * a a 2 x Yhh = [nN] 7 ” % g & 7 ¢ & aAAG Awe AA he AOL ? au iia ie e o he (KK) hob ohooh oh oh Oh hem o k of WWle a ef & we w oo 4% 4 & 6 PF og7 Al Au/ Ail Aa/ Aic/ Aci Ao/ s asa uu ii aa jie ee 00 we fZ]) 0 oe ho om wor a Zz fooy [yy] f & & Ff & ge y Lt d & & Af A Se kK a d wa [Gl] 7 * 4 2 2 14 & n é a 2 g mer Tarn 1 Tm a, v apt Po oR Rm RR Rk OR a P REE S R &® RR co ROR a s o& DSS o # % 7 & o P @ AG OF] & oo & mF OE Ea f TA op re gre or sr x Pp fo tu 4 te ik to 9 Uta He IPA Punctuation Ethiopic Punctuation Keystrokes]: 2:5 4 5 Punctuation : # +7 t Keyboard Punctuation Alll regular punctuation on your keyboard remains available. Most punctuation can be typed with a single keystroke as usual. Those used to input Ethiopic symbols can be entered by hitting the punctuation key two or more times until it appears. Typing Numerals Ethiopic Numerals Keystrokes] 1 2 3 4 Numeral [Keystrokes] 10 20 30 40.50 6070 80.90 Numeral F # @ 99 5 [Keystrokes] 100 1000 10000 Numeral § if ffNumeral composition will continue as 0s are entered up to ## (100,000,000). Latin Digits Western numbers may be typed with a ‘#” mark followed by the desired digit 1-9, [Keystrokes] #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 Digt 123456789 Typing Zaima Qirts (1°: CX: ) 21 A.C: CHCh ChCh HOT LE RET BLA PTH ch LA LE hE Keystrokes 12 34 5 6 7 8 9 0 Qurts 2: i boo ne oo a When typing ‘_* the following menu will appear: [1.2: F4F5..6.7 8 9 Ou. ‘Type the number that corresponds to the girts that you want and it will appear and the menu close. License This keyboard is copyright © Ge’ez Frontier Foundation, 2009-2020, It is distributed under the MIT free software license: ‘The MIT License (MIT) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permis of the Software, ion notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FRO) OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE,