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Ethiopia - Mobiles to go Abesha

03/05/07

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Ethiopia - Mobiles to go Abesha

Mobiles to go Abesha

By Andualem Sisay

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Addis Ababa Ethiopia - When technologies transfer from one country to another, they need to be adopted to the extent that they benefit the majority of the people.
Unfortunately, due to various reasons, some technologies are directly imposed without taking into consideration the limitations of the recipient society to fully utilize the technology.

Photo: Media Ethiopia

The mobile phone is among the technologies that have been directly transferred to Ethiopia. As the majority of the people of the country are not familiar with the English language or other languages that are used on mobile phones, we observe many people can’t do a routine operation like save a friends name and number.

Such problems led Abraham Tsegaye and his team comprising of Solomon Worku and Daniel Adbib to write a mobile phone operating system in Amharic, as their Bsc Degree final graduation project.

“Because of the language barrier, many people in our area and the majority of Ethiopians do not properly understand the English menus on their cell phones,” says Abraham. “What we did was to figure out how we can solve the problem.”

It is this intention that led them to the idea of using Motorola’s Symbian operating system software. With in a three month period of the project time set by the HiLCoE school of Computer Science and Information Technology, Abraham and his team develop at 200 characters on the nine keys of a Motorola apparatus.

Using Amharic language characters, they were able to develop phone book, message and phone settings in Amharic.

“Our progress to go this far with limited resources as students made us view this project seriously and push on until we see our people use this product,” says Solomon. “Therefore, with an interested partner who is willing to invest on the realization of the need for Amharic mobile menu software and with consultation we have started with Nokia, we will soon be able to provide this product to the market.”

According to Solomon, they are looking for a partner who is willing to provide them with the necessary equipment to finalize their research and develop their first fully compatible Amharic mobile phone operating system using Symbian.

In addition, they are also looking forward to consulting and sharing experiences with individuals who have developed Amharic software and to continue discussions with Nokia.

According to recent information obtained from Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation, which is the sole telephone service provider in the country, there are more than 1,030,000 mobile phone subscribers.

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msg Comment from: mohammed [Visitor]
interesting. another sign we are moving forward. viva
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 13:18

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msg Comment from: funny [Visitor]
Very Interesting.

Good Job guys.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 13:26

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msg Comment from: Abbaa Boruu [Visitor]
It is wasting money and time. Abesha letters anyway, it is very backward from the rest of the world. We need to go with the rest of the globe, use English alphabet A B C it is easy and more convinent. It doesn't cost many and it doesn't wast time to invent new software. Save money to fight poverty in Ethiopia. Thank you !!
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 13:53

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msg Comment from: haroo [Visitor]
It is not a big deal don't surprise your self with a minor thing. you better worry about freedom, democracy of your people. Tell the gov't to stop displacing, killing and torturing his citizens.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 13:56

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msg Comment from: haroo [Visitor]
belaw, Tiru siranaw barituu.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 13:57

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msg Comment from: kiyyaa [Visitor]
U guys still struggle whith ur saba alphabet?? It is not something that fits technology, lol why not u drop it!!! lol
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 14:12

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msg Comment from: TPLF CADRE [Visitor]
Don't hate on our individuaity our alphabets are part of what makes us Ethiopian

Haters
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 14:31

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msg Comment from: Yetneberk [Visitor]
It is greate. The Ethiopian Alphabet is unblievable.
It was created from Astrology. The Seven Ho Hiyats, are the 7 days in a week. There are 26 Primary Alphabets which represent 26 weeks, Menfek (half year). And the other derived Secondary alphabets like (Huwa Lwa Muwa)makes the total alphabets 52, represent the 52 Weeks in a year. Ancient Ethiopian Philosophers can tell a date by reading a word from a religious book.
I blieve the Basic alphabets are 26 like latin. Here below is something I read
"....I had advocated on that occasion that we should "market" the Ethiopian alphabet to other African countries whose mother tongues were as yet unwritten. Whenever the concerned people decided to write their language they invariably turn to the Latin alphabet. Such a choice is good because the Latin alphabet is more efficient than for example Arabic or Chinese for example. But if you stop and ponder the Latin alphabet is no match to the Ethiopian alphabet in its use of written symbols to represent sounds - which after all is the sole object of writing.

Unlike the Latin alphabet, the Ethiopian alphabet;

- eliminates the need of spelling (a great relief)

- it has a built in formula to create new characters to represent new sounds

(e.g. the newly created "ve" from "be")

- whatever you hear you can write (because it is completely phonetic)

- it is easy to learn

( no more than 6 weeks if you use a logical teaching method such as Hahu Bekelalu)

With all of these inherent virtues one would hope that many languages would adopt this alphabet as their method of writing provided of course they are made aware of its value. Hence my suggestion then that we "market" our alphabet. Alas, let alone attracting other African countries to use our alphabet, even our Oromo and Somali speaking compatriots opted to use the Latin alphabet to write down their mother tongue. The main reason that is advanced for this migration to a foreign alphabet is technological - It is claimed that the Ethiopian alphabet is difficult to type, it is not adapted for telex and computers, and it is difficult to learn etc. That is the Challenge:
(Terefe Ras Work)

PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 14:53

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msg Comment from: tef; [Visitor]
Using our alphabet's and language in the 21st century technology is possible and should be encouraged. Imitating every thing foreign is not going to get us respect. As it is we adopted to much foreign stuff. Can we please start modifying new technologies to reflect our language and culture? Asian countries like Japan, China, Korea, ...etc. did it. Why can't we? Ethiopians in the software technologies field a lot is expected from you. Our alphabets are named 'Geez alphabets'.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 14:58

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msg Comment from: konrad [Visitor]
Ethiopians killed by the Dergue and Woyane could have been Scientists and Engineers which have contributed to the development of Ethiopia. Unfortunately "friendly tyrannts" like Pinochet and co are supported by those preaching Democracy but in reallity they are systemmatically destroying other countries.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 15:02

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msg Comment from: Tezebet [Visitor]
Abbaa Boruu,

Did you said, "It is very backward from the rest of the world." I hope you don't tell this to Japanese, Chain's, Greece's, Arabs and other countries who take pride in their own language and heritage. Speaking English doesn't make you advance or speaking English doesn't make you backward. If that was the case we wouldn't have a scientist, Doctors & Astronomer other than English speacker… You see it one dimension however for so many people their language is a symbol of identity and pride. Japanese advanced in any technology you can imagine, but they still keep their language and tradition… at the same time they take what is good from the rest of the world. From the web search "It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language." That means from 6,525,170,264 people there are only 7 million speak English (0.12 %)the rest speaks other language… in your opinion this entire people who are not speaks English are backward? I support developing my own than taking some bodies language. Don't take me wrong I would love to learn more language and use it but I prefer my own. I rather to develop Oromonie, Amheric & Tigrnya and other local language than any other language… I take pride for this language. There are so many good things we can borrow from the so called civilized world, but not in the expanse of my identity and tradition.


With do respect
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 15:38

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msg Comment from: yoseph [Visitor]
Some people lack the respect to say good job when something is at least done...kiyaa and abba borou you are not obliged to use it once it will be ready...go live your dream western life...morons.
yoseph
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 16:25

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msg Comment from: Asmamaw [Visitor]
Can you read this...if so do we need to spend money to have our geez letter in the mobile phone:

Hasabachin and meto shih yeamarigna mobayil meliektoch bemeskerem and zeTena zeTegn lay lemelak new.


Cheers.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 16:38

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msg Comment from: guta [Visitor]
Great job! But is this different project from Fidelix? If so it is more interesting as the competition will drive the projects much faster.

PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 17:29

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msg Comment from: anbesso [Visitor]
Aba Borru your comment is boring like your name. You have no idea what you said. You must be retarded and ignorant or you hate to be an Ethiopian. The amharic alphabets are our heritage and pride which makes Ethiopia among the Africans a country with our own alphabets. Such creative and genious ethiopians invention should be highly appreciated and they deserve to be honored. For you as you have a small mind and a little idea you will remain with your rubbishness. Thank you guys who invented such programme and made our language known among others and to be displayed like various languages. I am proud of you and keep the good work. You have made history. You are the true Ethiopians and thanks God our mother land produced wonderful people like you eventhough we have some trash like Aba Boring!

PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 17:34

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msg Comment from: Selememaster [Visitor]
ASMAMAW

May be it is easier for those who speak and write English. How ever, this is designed for all Amaharic speaking people including those people who doesn't read or write English. Even if you read english, our alphabet is easier to read and we are proud to use our own.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 18:03

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msg Comment from: M.T. [Visitor]
Asmamaw,

You are not using latin character to pass your heartfelt 'inborn' message to some one very close to in your mother language like you tried above. The sheer joy is special in your original tongue. I like to see with sms msg. in Amh. or what ever Ethiopian language this message has to formulate it self in graphically and verbally. In Ethiopic alphabets excerpted in my native notion any message is awesome. Aydelem ende? The first things are always difficult but it is later benefitting all. In the longer run it is a strategy to be useful to most Ethiopians. I am grateful to the adobe program developpers, they made us see 1st hand expert analysis and info in Amharic and other Eth. languages even with watermarks to authenticate things. Am also glad to see Amharic as one of the sixty something alphabet that MS trying to facilitae as window to the world.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 18:10

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msg Comment from: Selememaster [Visitor]
This reminds me what Algore, X-vise president of the USA said "We create internet" i agree with what he said, even though he didn't create internet directly, he did involved in opening and setting up the way.You probably know where i am coming from, the same way for all these things to happen in our country, the government is setting up the way for the development of this country. Don't you agree? If you are hater, just punt this question is not for the you.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 18:12

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msg Comment from: Ra'Oeil ራዕይ [Member]
ASMAMAW

May be it is easier for those who speak and write English. How ever, this is designed for all Amaharic speaking people including those people who doesn't read or write English. Even if you read english, our alphabet is easier to read and we are proud to use our own. ...Selememaster


Another smart comment from you, man what is happening?! lol, keep it up!

Ra
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 18:18

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msg Comment from: Mohammed Alli [Visitor]
Abaa Boruu,
This is not waste of time and money,it is creativity.This group has to be rewarded for its initiatives.You know it is only 15-20% that leave in the towns ( Urban dweller ) the remaining live the country side and less able to read and understand english.If we have to change the lives of the farmers we have to be creative like this group.I thing this is the most wonderfull research that benefit the majority of our people,our identity,our language, our civilization and place in the world history.I feel proud of this guys and the science and technology commition should grant them for moral incentives.I have no hatred to our national language Amharic but Abaa Boruu should ask the scientists to include other of our major languages like Oromigna,Afar,Gurague,Somalia,Gambella, South nationalities etc in the language menue or media of the Mobiles and this is infact their second invention and open field for their completeness.
Well done thankyou all the group.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 18:19

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msg Comment from: Ras [Visitor]
Thankyou "Anbesso and Tezebet". I don't think this dude brain working
properly-rather we should send to Taiwan for further maintenance.

Later.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 18:50

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msg Comment from: Forest Gump [Visitor]

other societies grew so fast because they always innovated and sought solutions to the problems. This is an amazing work. Ethiopic is very capable language to be incorporated in today's technology. But it will happen only if we do it ourselves.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 19:50

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msg Comment from: Mengistu [Visitor]
Boruu:

you apear to have been abandoning one of the essential elements that composed you ethiopian. What do you call yourself anyways? a white man? Jamican?

Having said all of that, Cheers for our brothers who are able to make us all proud using their creative mind. Congradulations.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 20:08

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msg Comment from: Assefa [Visitor]
Do you know that with a little bit luck and perfection you can write e-mail and chat in Amharic? Follow these steps:

How to use foreign language fonts

You can use foreign language fonts in the 'IM' window and chat room window on paltalk.

Step 1
press the 'start' button on the lower left side of your desktop

Step 2
select 'control panel'

the windows 'control panel' will open and display a variety of icons

Step 3
select 'date, time, language, and regional settings'

Step 4
select 'regional and language settings'

a 'regional and language options' window opens

Step 5
select the 'languages' tab

Step 6
place a checkmark in the 'install files for complex script and right-to-left languages' box

Step 7
press the 'details' button

Step 8
select the default keyboard layout and language from the pull-down menu

Step 9
add more languages and fonts
press the 'add' button

A window appears and asks you to select a text 'input' language

Step 10
Select the language you would like to install and press the 'ok' button

note: if you would like to add more languages repeat from Step 9

Step 11
select the 'advanced' tab

Step 12
select the language font that you wish to install from the drop down menu in the top section of the window

When you are done press the 'apply' button then the 'ok' button

note: Windows may ask you to reboot to continue installing the languages that you have requested. Be sure to save any woark before you reboot. You may be asked to insert your Windows install CD.



PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 20:41

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msg Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
Every one talking about Amharic language to be on the mobile technology in Ethiopia these days because many people doesn't know how to follow the English instructions.

What about Tigregna? If I were the mobile technology decision maker,I would chose Tigregna language to be in the mobile first than Amharic or anything else.
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 21:19

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msg Comment from: Gonder [Visitor]
First I would like to thank you these genious truth Ethiopian sons; Abraham Tsegaye and his team comprising of Solomon Worku and Daniel Adbib Fnatastic

Abbaa Boruu:
You said,
" Abesha letters anyway it is very backward from the rest of the world" Explain to what extent it is backward? A B C letters, words,phrases and sentences made from these letters are belong to Whites not you find yourself first, but we love english because it is from USA not yours, but this genious made it in Amharic. May be you fell something say supper because of your expensive car, someting still you do not know how that car able to run,stop and different partswork properly. may be you have nice DvD player but still you don't know how it works why how, but this educated did it.
while you are a person who thinks like a donkey evnthough Ididn't see a donkey who thinks ike a human how you dare to open your untraind mouth to these effective persons?
You are big backward empty dependant. Think twice before embracing. A line starts from a point,you can not draw any figer with out it. Why China japan such amusing electornics produced with their own language and character? because they have their own self stem not just like you sold many times through out his life by rice, wheat, salvage close and money "hodu Amlaku" Show your talent not your trash. Mitibelaw yelelat lerase timtam gizu Alechi
Any way nobady knows you but these genious generation eill make another supper invent.
Ethiopia.... Ethiopia...Ethiopia your Everything maybe it become, looks like thin like hair, but never ever cut off. if you if you like it or not love it million of you screaming out there nothing will not happen.
abaa boroo yesimih enkua kifatu
God bless Ethiopian and the World!!!
PermalinkPermalink 03/05/07 @ 23:18

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msg Comment from: meron [Visitor]
Good news
by the way i appreciate HiLCoE and
before instructor of 4-kilo Universtiy, now the owner and director of HiLCoE proffesor Ahmed Hussien
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 01:10

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msg Comment from: addisu [Visitor]
Abba Boru!
He!! Watch out!! This man is not true Oromo. He is probably snaky Eritrean, who forged the name of the proud and kind Oromo, to create hatrade between Oromo and his brother Amara. So, watch out! don't be misled.
My comment is that is so fine to use whatever language Ethiopia has, it is afterall the expresion of who and what Ethiopia is. Next we want and will see an invention with Oromipha, Gurage, Hadiya etc. What resourceful country we are. Wow, but when is the time to be free of those parasites? I asure you , very soon! soon!!!
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 01:14

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msg Comment from: abera demeksa [Visitor]

haroo,kiyaa,etc.,

I am ashamed that you might call yourselves "Ethiopians". Here are a couple of admirable Ethiopians coming up with breakthrough technologies to help their people,and you, worthless idiots, have to put them down like that? Shame on you!

Here is high-five to my techno-brothers: Abraham,Solomon,Daniel and company!

PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 03:52

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msg Comment from: mitmita [Visitor]
Mr Asmamaw (atalaw) As Ethiopian, I am very pleased to see such effort to keep our identity raise up right. However, I am quite sad to hear such sad comment for Asmamaw saying why we shouldn’t use English alphabet in mobile phone? The answer is we Ethiopians proud of what we have and please advise the Oromo people to stick with their Latino.
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 03:57

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msg Comment from: bay [Visitor]
Cheaper too. Most countries pay per character pt kilo bytes. So the amharic is shorter and cheaper.
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 09:35

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msg Comment from: wochewGud [Visitor]
Guys your are fighting it out while the basic question is not answered: whether it is in Amharic or english, where is the freedom to send text message in the first place? we are allowed and denied to use sms depending on the mode of woyaneas! so the priority would be having freedom of not only using sms, but also having a truly development-oriented government in the first place that expands and hasten the development of ICT in Ethiopia. for me the software this guys are writing is a progress, but not completely new thing! however, even the giant ETC is dozing when these courageous students venture on something useful!
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 11:41

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msg Comment from: Mazash [Visitor]
Ra,

Yes, Selememaster is getting smarter and smarter. The other day he was trying to explain what 40% means and I was really impressed.
By the way, where is Guenet Girma? We don't hear much from her.
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 11:47

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msg Comment from: amin [Visitor]
personally i don't care to even speak amharic......it was a language forced on us by the amaras.....i speak afan oromo and i speak a little somali......so don't feed us this nonsence

OROMIA
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 11:59

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msg Comment from: Asmamaw [Visitor]
Mitmita wrote
"Mr Asmamaw (atalaw) As Ethiopian, I am very pleased to see such effort to keep our identity raise up right. However, I am quite sad to hear such sad comment for Asmamaw saying why we shouldn’t use English alphabet in mobile phone? The answer is we Ethiopians proud of what we have and please advise the Oromo people to stick with their Latino. " ....end of quote.

You and the other commentators are very much obssessed by blind love of self. And because of this selfish attitude and lack of empathy for others that you end up at the bottom of society. Who said amharic is spoken by majority of ethiopians? tell me which peasant and rural dwellers write and read in Geez script?
I have no problem with the invention but do not force onto the people that do not want it. Let the market place decide.

Cheers.
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 13:02

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msg Comment from: OK [Visitor]
Yetenberek, your Info is very refreshing!

What a shame for the Oromos and Somalis, that they ignored Ge'ez, and opted for the less rich Latin alphabets.
How could one be able to prefer a fast-food burger to nutritious good old Injera? It's a cultural tragedy!
For each in Ge'ez written page, you have two latin language pages...

Although the number of languages in use world wide still runs into
6000, the number of scripts currently used to write them
is only around two dozen. To simplify things further, it is rarely realised that there are, in fact, only three basic types of script: ideographic scripts (mostly used in China, and also in
Japan and Korea); derivatives of Brahmi script, developed mainly
in South Asia, and scripts derived from Phonecian, now used in
scripts of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

Many school textbooks state that the early Phoenicians, who lived
in what is now Lebanon, were major traders. Their 22-letter script
influenced nearby scripts like Hebrew and ultimately the European
scripts, but more and more researchers in the field are suggesting that, like the origin Human, agriculture or other relevant civilization, the origin of all the writing systems in the world too is in Ethiopia.
The old Sabean and Phoenician, Aramaic even Arabic scripts
derived from the Ethiopic, not the other way round.

Take for instance, 'ABUGIDA' , which is derived from the first
four characters of an order of the Ethiopic script -- which is the
ancestral mother character order of (aleph, beth, gimel, daleth,
ABCD, etc.). Now, we find the 'alphasyllabary' writing system, ABUGIDA, in most Asian countries including India and Japan.

Ethiopic is a national -- a human treasure that, we Ethiopians must always consciously be proud of.
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 14:05

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msg Comment from: Abbaa Boruu [Visitor]
Here ago again, the Amharic language is good for the Amhara people but it is very complicated for the rest of nation and nationalities. We don't want this language to dominate the other nations, all languages are equal I think the rest of the nations don't want domination anymore. It is good for the Abesha's, but it is backwardness for the other nation and nationalities in Ethiopia to use saba letters. We already went extra mile with the southern nation and nationalities. We don't need to invent new software. We already said good bye to domination and welcome to equality and respect every spoken languages in Ethiopia. Did you get my idea!
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 14:06

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msg Comment from: OK [Visitor]
How nice that we are now beginning to realise that transliteration is having more indirect impact on many other aspects of multilingual computing than previously appreciated.
That's why it works very well for such extremely phonetic languages and scripts like Ge'ez.

Signs, symbols, syllographs, and writing systems are mechanisms
of knowledge systems, which may be shown at various stages of
knowledge creations, Beliefs, conceptions, development and
transmissions.

Long live Ge'ez!
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 14:10

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msg Comment from: Abbaa Boruu [Visitor]
Here ago again, the Amharic language is good for the Amhara people but it is very complicated for the rest of nation and nationalities. We don't want this language to dominate the other nations, all languages are equal I think the rest of the nations don't want domination anymore. It is good for the Abesha's, but it is backwardness for the other nation and nationalities in Ethiopia to use saba letters. We already went extra mile with the southern nation and nationalities. We don't need to invent new software. We already said good bye to domination and welcome to equality and respect every spoken languages in Ethiopia. Did you get my idea!
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 14:14

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msg Comment from: Gonder [Visitor]
amin:
Nobody forced to speak Amharic, but your grand parents sheepherd and farmers to improve their daily life they learn it at the end of the 16th century when they come Ethiopia.
Fell free Man this is the begining not an end.
Asmamaw:
You so confused which family you come from this unrelevant thream you bost it.
they will maket it good by oprating different language
If you speeak Amharic press 1 Gurage press 2 and so on they will expand it. but you "tekemachi afu milachi"
Do somthing for your people!
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 14:20

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msg Comment from: Mohammed Alli [Visitor]
Brother Yeha,
What is the difference between Amharic and Tigrigna? First of all they are of the same origin as the " sieme language " arises from Geeze, and Tigrigna was the ancestor of Amharic and the whole mark of Abesha residing in the North provinces.So using Amharic is the same as using Tigrigna.
Yeha,bearing this in mind let's appreciate the invention and not to discourage the creativity of these noble group of Ethiopians,they are by far better than the useless so called diaspora professors,doctors,engineers and lawyers etc if their possition is really in that capacity.
PermalinkPermalink 03/06/07 @ 14:55

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msg Comment from: Queen Sheba [Visitor]
Dear Yeha

What about Tigregna? If I were the mobile technology decision maker, I would chose Tigregna language to be in the mobile first than Amharic or anything else".

It doesn't have to be Tigregna or any other Ethiopian language to be first. Anyone who's got access to a mobile and knows the Ethiopian alphabet can use it in any langue they want even French for that matter. That is the advantage and fun of it. I don't think you are a Tigreian you must be a jealous foreigner who wants to spread hate.

And as of Amin where is the logic in using the Oromigna in Latin. Just to spell one letter you end up ddddddddd. I am sure what use to be 100 pages of a book in Ethiopian Alphabet is now 500 pages in Latin. Now everything has to be translated backwards and forward between Oromigna and the other languages of Ethiopia even to solve a simple argument about a dead chicken killed by Mukecha you have to look for a translator. Why do Oromo people should be confined in only Oromia speaking area just because they can’t communicate in a National Language. In my opinion I don’t think who ever brought this idea of Latin for Oromos did you any good. Only time will tell. To our Hero’s well done and I can’t wait to text bewof quanqua.

The Queen

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msg Comment from: ethiolove [Visitor]
O my God, how could you say “It is very backward from the rest of the world?” This statement tells us something wrong about you. May be you are not Ethiopian or not proud to be Ethiopian Do you think speaking English make you advance or modern? Please use the skill of “stop, look, listen, think and plan” before speaking. We Ethiopians should be proud and encourage the positive idea. Positivism does not cost us any money and also if you do not want to use the new technology, no one will force you. I think this is good and challenging for the new generations. Long live to Ethiopians and God bless the land of Ethiopian
Ethiolove.
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msg Comment from: SUMAYAA [Visitor]
OROMO wak up instated of putiing other dawone hele your people to the same think be jalis instad of been ignorant so wke up and wake your people frome the sleep and CHATEE OR JEMAA
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msg Comment from: M.T. [Visitor]
OK,

thank you for your reflection on the Geez Alphabet. and for the spot to the hypothesis that the Phoenecian ancient scripts, the origins for the Mediteranean land letter-signs might have originated from pre-Ethiopic or Sabean or Pre-Geez letter signs. Pre-alphabetic graphic representation. Pan-African social scientists and linguists think this way. So did the Historian Cheikh Anta Diop iluminate this version of the story. What does Bekri say about these things, who i believe, knows in depth about the Sabean graphic signs and their slow evolution, in the inlands of African and Asia, across the two old Sabean lands: Ethiopia and Yemen?
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msg Comment from: Gonder [Visitor]
ethiolove:
Bless you too man!
these people because of inferior comleex they don't know what they said.
When the two American brothers dreamed to fly in the sky ORVILLE and WILUBER WRIGHT; the christian frutiful little boys; the govermenet and the people were stand beside them they did not encourage them. Thier father the chruch servant didn't stop them he gave them support though it looks dream. these two brothers they didn't have degree, or Masters, but they had natural degree and masters when they join this critical world. Today you and me "nift chinkilat stone and blocked head societies begians those who spent their night and day with books start yealing and screaming their effert.
Brothers i love you but I hate your mind still in the field of cattle and sheepheared.
Amharic and Tigre language come from Geez these two Twines sister and brother come together since the existance of human kind what ever situation happen two animals Wrestling each other don't break their teeth. We love you because our Ancestor entertain your immigrant Ancestor so we have to live with you but because of democracy thanks to first USA)) EPRDF but you do not have to show your animal behavior
Long live Ethiopian
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[Deleted, NO ethnic slur here my friend! moderator]
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msg Comment from: shebelaw [Visitor]
I belive we have so many other things to worry about, like fighting poverty and Aids, first thing first, let's use the time and money to save our people.
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msg Comment from: abyssiniangirl4life [Visitor]
I really like gondar's idea of "press 1 for amharic" "press 2 for oromigna" etc. And i am sure that those brilliant guys are capable of advancing this new-found tech to that level.
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msg Comment from: amaizing [Visitor]
Is this stuff related to feedelix.com by any chance
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msg Comment from: Gonder [Visitor]
Ok:
Outstanding Man keep it up!!!
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msg Comment from: Eskinder-Jah [Visitor]
Abbaa Boruu, You're an idiot !
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