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font sample *	font information
	Abyssinica SIL    [ show all samples ]  (Abyssinica_SIL.ttf from AbyssinicaSILversion.zip) Note: The font has additional characters in the Private Use Area to support languages that require Ethiopic characters not yet encoded in Unicode. Source: Free download from SIL. Stats: Version 1.000 has 2,302 glyphs and 288 kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: default (default, Amharic), Ethiopic (default, Amharic)
	AmharicLSU    [ show all samples ] Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh. Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software. Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
	Ethiopia Jiret and Ethiopia Jiret Slant    [ show all samples ]  (jiret.ttf and jiretsl from washra_fonts.zip) Source: Free download from Senamirmir Projects. Stats: Version 1.5 2003 has 599 glyphs and 1 kerning pair Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Ethiopic Fantuwua    [ show all samples ]  (fantuwua.ttf from washra_fonts.zip) Source: Free download from Senamirmir Projects. Stats: Version 1.0 2006 has 562 glyphs and 1 kerning pair Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Ethiopic Hiwua    [ show all samples ]  (hiwua.ttf from washra_fonts.zip) Source: Free download from Senamirmir Projects. Stats: Version 4.0 2006 has 561 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Ethiopic Tint    [ show all samples ]  (tint.ttf from washra_fonts.zip) Source: Free download from Senamirmir Projects. Stats: Version 4.0 2006 has 562 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Ethiopic WashRa SemiBold, Ethiopic WashRa SemiBold Slant, Ethiopic WashRa Bold, and Ethiopic WashRa Bold Slant    [ show all samples ]  (washrasb.ttf, washrasbsl.ttf, washrab.ttf, and washrabsl.ttf from washra_fonts.zip) Source: Free download from Senamirmir Projects. Stats: Version 4.0 2006 has 566 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Ethiopic Wookianos    [ show all samples ]  (wookianos.ttf from washra_fonts.zip) Source: Free download from Senamirmir Projects. Stats: Version 4.0 2006 has 562 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Ethiopic Yebse    [ show all samples ]  (yebse.ttf from washra_fonts.zip) Source: Free download from Senamirmir Projects. Stats: Version 4.0 2006 has 561 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Ethiopic Yigezu Bisrat Goffer    [ show all samples ]  (goffer.ttf from washra_fonts.zip) Source: Free download from Senamirmir Projects. Stats: Version 1.0 2006 has 563 glyphs and 1 kerning pair Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	EthiopicLSU    [ show all samples ] Platforms: Both Windows and Macintosh. Source: Professional font available for purchase from Linguist's Software. Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Free Serif    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSerif.ttf, FreeSerifBold.ttf, FreeSerifItalic.ttf, and FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.52 has 3,914 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, IPA, Latin, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Malayalam, Tamil, Thaana, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Latin, Malayalam (traditional), Tamil
	Geez Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (GUnicode.ttf from Geez_Setup.exe installation) Source: Part of the free Geez Unicode software install from freeserve. Also available for download elsewhere. Stats: Version 1.0 has 566 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	GF Zemen Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (gfzemenu.ttf) Source: Free download (via FTP) from the Ge'ez Frontier Foundation. Stats: Version 0.20 has 557 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	GS GeezMahtemUnicode    [ show all samples ]  (GS GeezMahtemUnicode.ttf from running GS GeezMahtemUnicode.exe) Source: Free download from GeezSoft. Stats: Version 0.1 has 559 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	TITUS Cyberbit Basic    [ show all samples ]  (tituscbz.ttf) PLEASE volunteer to translate the home page of the Four Essential Travel Phrases for David McCreedy. Source: Free download (after submitting a form) from TITUS. Stats: Version 3.0 (2000) has 9,779 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Ethiopic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Ogham, Runic, Thaana, Vietnamese
	Visual Geez Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (VGUnicode.ttf from running VGUpdate.exe) Source: Part of the free Visual Geez Unicode Update software install from Custor Computing. Stats: Version 1.0 has 568 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Visual Geez Unicode Agazian    [ show all samples ]  (VGUnicodeA.ttf from running VGUpdate.exe) Source: Part of the free Visual Geez Unicode Update software install from Custor Computing. Stats: Version 1.0 has 575 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin
	Visual Geez Unicode Title    [ show all samples ]  (VGUnicodeT.ttf from running VGUpdate.exe) Source: Part of the free Visual Geez Unicode Update software install from Custor Computing. Stats: Version 1.0 has 572 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Ethiopic, Latin

 

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Related Links

• The Unicode implementation of Ethiopic is described in chapter 13 (Additional Modern Scripts) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.
• The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.
• Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Ethiopic Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Ethiopic block page (in English and German/Deutsch).
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.

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