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Texting in Amharic
Texting in Ge'ez is now possible in Ethiopia, thanks to a new brand of cellphones by Nokia. It must have been quite a task; Ge'ez characters with all their variants number up to nearly 300.
The new range of phones, developed by Nokia, have onscreen instructions in Amharic, keypads showing both Roman and Ge'ez characters, and even the ability to set the date according to Ethiopia's unique, 13-month calendar.
The script will work for any language which uses the Ge'ez script - Amharic or Tigrinya in Ethiopia or the Tigre language spoken across the border in Eritrea.(ELHAM)
Tags: Amharic, texting
January 14, 2008
