Language and Literature: Ethiopia
Includes linguistics, online dictionaries, grammars, teaching
aids.
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Ethiopian Computers and Software (http://www.ethiopic.com/)
Although developed to showcase its software such as "ModEth, EthioWord,
GeezEdit, etc. "... this Ethiopic and English web site of Ethiopian Computers
offers a number of articles of concerning the Ethiopic alphabet and technical
issues concerning its use on the Internet.
Ethiopic Character
Sets (http://libeth.sourceforge.net/CharacterSets.html)
Presents a table citing a number of software web pages and information about
the types of scripts offered by them for Ethiopian languages.
Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=ET)
Searching this comprehensive English language ethnological site will
yield lists and articles of the languages and linguistic groups spoken and read
in Ethiopia.
FTP Repository (ftp://ftp.geez.org/pub/Menu.html)
Links to a number of sites concerning Ethiopian scripts, software and linguistics.
Fidel (http://www.abyssiniacybergateway.net/fidel/fidel.html)
" ‘Ethiopic'' is the term most familiar to the western world for the
primary writing system of Eritrea and Ethiopia. Other terms that have been used
for the script in the west have been ‘Abyssinian,' ‘Ethiopian' and ‘Abyssinic.'.
In Eritrea and Ethiopia the writing system is known affectionately as ‘Ge'ez,' ‘Fidel,'
and ‘Fidelat'' and the foreign names may never be heard in ones lifetime.
The terms may be used interchangably here to refer to the extended writing system.
This includes all additional characters added to classic Ge'ez ... for tgrNa,
amarNa, guragiNa and other languages, numbers, punctuation, and musical notes." Includes
links to documents and web sites which provide historical and contemportary studies
about this alphabet system including technical issues such as unicode representation
of the script.
Hill Monastic Manuscript
Library (Saint John's
University, Collegeville, Minnesota)
(http://www.hmml.org/)
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From the very beginning, HMML has attempted to ensure scholars access to
the manuscripts on microfilm. It reported on the progress of filming and maintained
handlists of libraries and materials filmed. ... . [including] paper and online
catalogues for Malta and Ethiopia."
The LiveGe'ez Remote Processing
Protocol (http://libeth.sourceforge.net/LiveGeez.html)
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This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. ... Ethiopic web
publishing is burdened with a legacy of numerous disparate systems. The probability
is then very high that a document published in one encoding system becomes inaccessible
to the majority of users who will wish to read the document. A conversion service
is proposed to alleviate this problem. This document describes a Common Gateway
Interface API and Hypertext Markup Language extensions for the conversion of
web documents on remote servers from one encoding system into another."
Meskot (http://www.geocities.com/meskot%5Fweb/)
Poetry and short stories in Amharic and English are posted as well as links to
similar sites.
Thesaurus Linguae Aethiopica (http://www.uni-mainz.de/Organisationen/TLA/)
Available in English or German. "Named (provisionally) Thesaurus Linguae
Aethiopicae, the project aims at creating machine-readable and SGML-encoded (according
to the guidelines of TEI P 3) Ethiopic texts and collecting them in a corpus
for further research. ... The working group, which is based on an initiative
started in 1991, is already investigating a number of texts. The choice of texts
has been pragmatically according to the specific demands of current research.
Thus, within the framework of research on typological change in Ethio-Semitics
the following texts are under preparation: the Axumite inscriptions, new editions
of Imperial songs in old Amharic, the chronicle of Za¨r'a-Ya'qob, the Ser'ata¨ ma¨ngest
and related texts, [and] the Haymanota¨ abaw (a history of the Ethiopian
Church, in Amharic)."
Wazéma System (http://members.aol.com/w4z5m4/wazema.html)
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Wazéma System is a personal computer writing system for Amharic,
the Ethiopian national language, and all other Ethiopian languages: the first
complete Ethiopian computer writing system freely available from Internet."
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