For one family, ethiopian referendum reverberates through. Brannaeditor is an ethiopian languages based html text editor designed to simplify amharic and tigrinya web content creation. Aberra molla, 2017 honoree of the ethiopian heritage. Mollas function key software for amharic decades ago and is one of the current users of his geezedit app.
Dr aberras interview with the voice of america amharic program, 062789 about the first ethiopic software real. Minalachew simachew with dr aberra molla a scientist who computerized geez 23 may 2018. Aberra molla gave to reporter demissie agonafir of zegeba. The ethiopic calendar by dr aberra molla ethiopia has its own ancient days in. Home land for coffe kaldis the first ethiopian who test coffe this cross in one. Aberra molla at vision ethiopia 2017 part 2 youtube. He is a visionary who recognized the power of computers and its potential and was ahead of his time. Life and legacy of dr aberra molla pt 1 and 2 sbs amharic. 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. 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. Aberra molla is the pioneer who computerized the ethiopian. 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. It brings common word processor features directly to your web pages. 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.
With branna editor, users can compose, edit, format and save documents in their nativelanguage. As has been the case for israel, egypt and ethiopia have. 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 molla was the 2017 honoree at the 7th annual festival of the. 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. Advances made by ethiopians in the computer technology. The derg, which took power after overthrowing the ethiopian empires 700yearold. Most of the people do not know that ethiopians had developed beautiful and perfect alphabets and have been using them for thousands of years. Branna amharic word processor branna editor is an amharic word processing application built specifically for ethiopianlanguage speakers. The 20 person of the year of the ethiopianamerican forum is ethiopianamerican scientist dr. 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 above is a published amharic version of an interview dr. Whats new, interview with inventor and patent holder of ethiopic character entry dr.
The damnation of ethiopia by the ttplf alemayehu g. Aberra molla, 2017 honoree of the ethiopian heritage society. The last set of papers dealt with the indigenous writing system and musical instruments of the ethiopian orthodox twehido church eotc. Ethiopian coffe ceremony ethiopians are the one who offer coffe for the world. Geez uses a system of ones andtens comparable to the hebrew, arabic abjadand greek numerals, but unlike these systems,rather than giving numeric. Thirties relief, flowers power sic floral caps, direct du gauche inky brush, jackpot 3d. Further details have been left out as the purpose of this document is methods of efficiently rendering of. The novel method has given ethiopic a new power to put down ideas faster. The correct pronunciation is also given in englishamharic letter. 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. 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. Aberra a year to make one set of geez screen and printer fonts in 1986. 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.
Molla s function key software for amharic decades ago and is one of the current users of the his geezedit app for iphone. Aberra computerized ethiopicgeez more than 29 years ago. Brannaeditor amharic text editor type amharic script online. Abnetscreen keyboard is a virtual keyboard that is displayed on the computer screen.
This resulted in amharic being used in ethiopian websites and also more. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. This dictionary gives amharic definitions for about 40,000 english words. Vision ethiopia eighth conference successfully completed. As a result, more characters were added to geez primarily through the influence of the hamitic languages. Patent for ethiopic amharic software granted april, 2016 3. 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. Kulbir singh thind designed a set of gurmukhi unicode fonts, anmoluni and. Earliest inscriptions dates back to 9thcentury bc written from left to right computer software to write geez scriptswas invented by ethiopian scientist dr. The best amharic books ever, as voted on by the general goodreads community. Aberra molla, a scientist and an inventor is also known as the father of ethiopic. 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 was introduced to computers in 1976, during the punch card era, when he was a postdoctoral. Aberra molla, received involves the typing of the ethiopic characters with one and two keystrokes each in computers. Also has many links related to ethiopic typesetting. 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. Inspired by the creator of the amharic typewriter, ethiopian engineer ayana birru of. Amharic, the official language of ethiopia, uses the ethiopic alphabet and shares it with other. Ethiopic is not the only calendar in ethiopia either. Ethiopic computer and virtual keyboards molla aberra. Aberra molla in 1990 by the ethiopian research council. 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. The top twenty three reasons milkessa midega in march 2015 dr.
Aberra molla, 2017 honoree of the ethiopian heritage society in north america dr. Zegeba is a free informative publication for ethiopian residents of las vegas, nevada. Inspired by the creator of the amharic typewriter, ethiopian engineer ayana birru of horo gudru, wellega. Multiple keystrokes came about as a result of some amharic users trying to. Join facebook to connect with aberra molla and others you may know. In the 1800s the bible was translated to amharic and later to tigrigna and oromo languages. Aberra molla free ethiopic truetype font, geezedit amharic p by aberra molla. The conference was held between june 12 and 14, 20191 in the.
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