#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: Type ss (or sh), qq (or qh), c (or tt), x (or kk), zz (or zh), j (or dd) for q. Type a capital letter H, T, C, P, S for p. When the letter you want to type does not appear when you hit the similar sounding key in English, try using the capital next. To type directly with the computer keyboard: Type a consonant to get (by default) Type e for and ee (or ) for. Notice that we used capital N also for ኝ and we needed both ie together to make the 5th ጠ letter, ጤ. In this case you should type T, for capital T:Įxample: typing TienaysTlN produces ጤናይስጥልኝ For example, English does not have ጠ and the closest similar letter would be t. The keyboard is designed to provide users with an easy and convenient way to type in Amharic with just a few clicks, and without the need for any special software or fonts.

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 Welcome to the ultimate Amharic keyboard online for typing in Amharic and Geez. The Amharic keyboard uses an intuitive phonetic system where the Amharic sounds are matched to the nearest English letters.

Amharic typewriter keyboard