Thirties relief, flowers power sic floral caps, direct du gauche inky brush, jackpot 3d. Home land for coffe kaldis the first ethiopian who test coffe this cross in one. Aberra molla is the pioneer who computerized the ethiopian. Further details have been left out as the purpose of this document is methods of efficiently rendering of. For one family, ethiopian referendum reverberates through. Geez uses a system of ones andtens comparable to the hebrew, arabic abjadand greek numerals, but unlike these systems,rather than giving numeric. It is used as an alternative to the physical keyboard, so users can type amharic or arabic character using a mouse or other input device. Aberras interview with the voice of america amharic program, 062789 about the first ethiopic software windows.
Patent for ethiopic amharic software granted april, 2016 3. I cut my legal teeth nearly four decades ago pouring over the magna carta, blackstones commentaries and edward cokes legal treatises on the primacy of common law principles and the rule of law. Aberra, the pioneer of ethiopic computerization, is a visionary who recognized the power of computers and its potential and was ahead of his time. The correct pronunciation is also given in englishamharic letter. Inspired by the creator of the amharic typewriter, ethiopian engineer ayana birru of horo gudru, wellega. Brannaeditor amharic text editor type amharic script online. Aberra who is an inventor, a researcher, a writer, an activist and an entrepreneur, as a person of the year 20 read below the summary of dr. Aberra molla at vision ethiopia 2017 part 2 cybraddis. Most of the people do not know that ethiopians had developed beautiful and perfect alphabets and have been using them for thousands of years.
Aberra molla at vision ethiopia 2017 part 2 youtube. Aberra molla, 2017 honoree of the ethiopian heritage. The 20 person of the year of the ethiopianamerican forum is ethiopianamerican scientist dr. Free ethiopic truetype font, geezedit amharic p by aberra molla. Molla s function key software for amharic decades ago and is one of the current users of the his geezedit app for iphone.
Inspired by the creator of the amharic typewriter, ethiopian engineer ayana birru of. Blind and hateful politics and racialtribal bigotries of ethiopian political movements wont benefit ethiopia it would probably lead the country to another worse catastrophic political chaos and bloodshed like to the ones we had been witnessing in the neighboring somalia and the south sudan which had caused tremendous loss of lives and human sufferings for decades. Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Technology if you show the ethiopian alphabet to an american you meet on the street the chance that it would be guessed right is one in a hundred. This resulted in amharic being used in ethiopian websites and also more. Dr aberras interview with the voice of america amharic program, 062789 about the first ethiopic software real. Aberra a year to make one set of geez screen and printer fonts in 1986. The damnation of ethiopia by the ttplf alemayehu g. Life and legacy of dr aberra molla pt 1 and 2 sbs amharic. Inspired by the creator of the amharic typewriter, ethiopian engineer ayana birru.
It brings common word processor features directly to your web pages. Also has many links related to ethiopic typesetting. The best amharic books ever, as voted on by the general goodreads community. The top twenty three reasons milkessa midega in march 2015 dr.
Aberra molla denver colorado, inventor and patent holder for computerizing ethiopic writing system spoke about the ability of the ethiopic alphabet to write many ethiopian and african languages. The last set of papers dealt with the indigenous writing system and musical instruments of the ethiopian orthodox twehido church eotc. Localization in ethiopia follows the usual pattern of translating terminologies, applying a keyboard for the writing system, applying collation and formatting rules, but to really get it right is a matter of time. Amharic, the official language of ethiopia, uses the ethiopic alphabet and shares it with other. Brannaeditor is an ethiopian languages based html text editor designed to simplify amharic and tigrinya web content creation.
He is a visionary who recognized the power of computers and its potential and was ahead of his time. As a result, more characters were added to geez primarily through the influence of the hamitic languages. Aberra molla, a scientist and an inventor is also known as the father of ethiopic. Ethiopic computer and virtual keyboards molla aberra. As has been the case for israel, egypt and ethiopia have. The amharic script is included in unicode, nyala font is included on windows7 see youtube video and vista amharic language interface pack lip to display and edit using the amharic script. The above is a published amharic version of an interview dr. Aberra molla was introduced to computers in 1976, during the punch card era, when he was a postdoctoral. The novel method has given ethiopic a new power to put down ideas faster. Zegeba is a free informative publication for ethiopian residents of las vegas, nevada. Aberra computerized ethiopicgeez more than 29 years ago. Aberra molla, received involves the typing of the ethiopic characters with one and two keystrokes each in computers.
Advances made by ethiopians in the computer technology. Birhanemeskel abebe, a renowned ethiopian academician, came up with top ten reasons why afaan oromo should be the federal working language. Now people can post in forums and blogs, send email, or publish web sites in amharic. In the 1800s the bible was translated to amharic and later to tigrigna and oromo languages. Minalachew simachew with dr aberra molla a scientist who computerized geez 23 may 2018. This dictionary gives amharic definitions for about 40,000 english words. Vision ethiopia eighth conference successfully completed. With branna editor, users can compose, edit, format and save documents in their nativelanguage. Kulbir singh thind designed a set of gurmukhi unicode fonts, anmoluni and.
Whats new, interview with inventor and patent holder of ethiopic character entry dr. Aberra molla in 1990 by the ethiopian research council. Abnetscreen keyboard is a virtual keyboard that is displayed on the computer screen. Earliest inscriptions dates back to 9thcentury bc written from left to right computer software to write geez scriptswas invented by ethiopian scientist dr. Aberra molla, 2017 honoree of the ethiopian heritage society. Aberra molla gave to reporter demissie agonafir of zegeba.
Branna amharic word processor branna editor is an amharic word processing application built specifically for ethiopianlanguage speakers. Aberra molla is the pioneer who computerized the ethiopian alphabet known as ethiopic for the fist time by giving a spot for each and every glyph. Ethiopian coffe ceremony ethiopians are the one who offer coffe for the world. The best website for free highquality geez amharic fonts, with 2 free geez.
The derg, which took power after overthrowing the ethiopian empires 700yearold. Join facebook to connect with aberra molla and others you may know. Amharic keyboard ethiopia cnet download free software. Multiple keystrokes came about as a result of some amharic users trying to. Aberra molla, 2017 honoree of the ethiopian heritage society in north america dr. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Aberra molla was the 2017 honoree at the 7th annual festival of the. Molla has also adopted the symbol keys of computers as ethiopic.
Aberra molla free ethiopic truetype font, geezedit amharic p by aberra molla. The works of enoch hnk had been in ethiopia and egypt before the times of moses and on through the times of king solomon and queen of sheba. Mollas function key software for amharic decades ago and is one of the current users of his geezedit app. It is designed for use in schools and colleges where the amharic equivalent of an english word is often sought to make a meaning clearer.
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