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Virtual Amharic Keyboard – የአማርኛ ኪቦርድ – Type Amharic Online

Amharic Keyboard enables you to type directly in Amharic language, it’s an easy and consistent manner, no matter where you are or what computer you’re using, and without installing any software on your computer.

How it works ?

Use the Virtual Amharic Keyboard by typing on your own keyboard as though it’s the virtual keyboard, or by clicking the keys on the virtual keyboard directly with your mouse.
Click or press the Shift key for additional Amharic letters that are not visible on the keyboard.

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Allowing a person to type in their own language on foreign keyboards – such as when traveling abroad or living in another country.
Enabling a more accessible typing experience by allowing typing by clicking in your own keyboard, or by clicking the keys with your mouse.
Providing a fast, simple way to switch between different languages quickly.

አማርኛ (Amharic) Keyboard Help

Keyboard © 1997-2020. Ge'ez Frontier Foundation.

Overview
Using this Keyboard
Keyboard Layout
Quickstart
Examples Amharic keyboard for mac

Keyboard Details
Complete Typing Chart - English
Complete Typing Chart - Amharic
Troubleshooting

Further Resources Amharic Keyboard

Related Keyboard Layouts
Technical Information
Authorship

Overview

This keyboard is designed for use with the Amharic language of Ethiopia in Africa. Typing follows a consonant-vowel pattern. It is designed for use with a standard (QWERTY) keyboard.

Most computers will automatically download a special font to display this keyboard correctly. However, if the layout or the charts below do not display correctly, please read the troubleshooting guide.

Click here to see keyboard layouts for other Ethiopic languages, like Awngi, Bench, Blin, Dizi, Ge'ez, Me'en, Mursi, Sebatbeit, Suri and Tigrigna.

Using this Keyboard

Keyboard Layout

Desktop Keyboard Layout

Phone Keyboard Layout

Tablet Keyboard Layout

Note: Longpress keys are not currently visible in this static documentation, and so some additional letters may be accessible through these longpress keys.

Quickstart

This keyboard is designed to work intuitively with a standard (QWERTY) keyboard. This means that the Amharic sounds in this keyboard can be found by thinking of the most similar English letters. For example, you can type selam to get ሰላም.

As you can see, each Amharic character is typed with the base consonant first and then the vowel. For example, ጤ is typed T then ie.

Keyboard Details

The Amharic keyboard uses an intuitive phonetic system where the Amharic sounds are matched to the nearest English letters. You can think of how a word sounds in Amharic and then type it out with English.

Example: typing selam produces ሰላም

Because Amharic has more sounds than English, we sometimes have to adjust this rule. For example, English does not have ጠ and the closest similar letter would be t. In this case you should type T, for capital T:

Example: typing TienaysTlN produces ጤናይስጥልኝ

Notice that we used capital N also for ኝ and we needed both ie together to make the 5th ጠ letter, ጤ. When the letter you want to type does not appear when you hit the similar sounding key in English, try using the capital next. If typing the capital does not work, then try hitting the key two times:

Example: typing sselam produces ሠላም

Example: typing SSeHey produces ፀሐይ

Next, when you need to type the extra letters of Amharic like ሏ,ሟ,ኴ you can do so by typing an extra vowel after a u:

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Amharic Keyboard For Mac

Example: typing guie produces ጔ

Finally, we must introduce a special rule for ' (apostrophe). Some words are spelt with a ሳድስ (6^th) letter followed by a vowel, like ርኤ in ገብርኤል. We use the apostrophe here to type gebr'iel to make sure we get ርኤ instead of ሬ.

Example: typing mel'ak produces መልአክ

Example: typing m'eeraf produces ምዕራፍ

Type Apostrophe twice after a 6^th order letter to make it appear in your document:

Example: typing mel'ak produces መል'አክ

We also use the “number sign” (“#” also know as the “hash mark”) for Ethiopic numbers, so #1 becomes ፩ and so on. If a # is needed in your document before a number, type it twice and: ##1 becomes #1. The double strike works for other punctuation as well, so typing ; once makes ፤ and a second time gives English semicolon ;.

See Typing in Amharic (English) or Typing in Amharic (Amharic) for full details on how to type all Amharic letters, numbers and punctuation.

Troubleshooting

If the characters you type or those on the On Screen Keyboard do not appear to display correctly, please read the KeymanWeb troubleshooting guide.

For any other questions, contact us.

Further Resources

Related Keyboard Layouts

Keyboard Layouts for other Ethiopic languages:

Awngi
Bench
Blin
Dizi
Ge'ez
Me'en
Mursi
Sebatbeit
Suri
Tigrigna (Eritrea)
Tigrigna (Ethiopia)

Other Internet Resources

More on the Amharic Writing System at Omniglot.com
More on the Amharic Language at Wikipedia.org

More on the Ge'ez Script at Omniglot.com
More on the Ge'ez Script at Wikipedia.org

Technical Information

System Requirements

Amharic Keyboard App

It is recommended that you use an English QWERTY hardware keyboard with this keyboard.

Amharic Keyboard For Windows 10

Unicode Version

This keyboard complies with Unicode 4.1

Version History

Version 1.9, 22 Jan 2020: Package migration to Abyssinica SIL 2.000
Version 1.8, 9 Mar 2019: Fix to recognize apostrophe after Salis forms.
Version 1.7, 1 Dec 2018: The apostrophe composition stopper added between lone vowels.
Version 1.6, 6 Sep 2018: The apostrophe composition stopper added after Ka'ib and Salis forms to support some special case words.
Version 1.5, 16 May 2018: Hashmark (#) replaces apostrophe for Ethiopic numeral composition to avoid 'smart quotes' issues.
Version 1.4, 7 May 2015: Added letters ኸ Ke ኹ Ku ኺ Ki ኻ Ka ኼ Kie ኽ K ኾ Ko to the touch layouts.

Keyboard Authorship

This keyboard was created by the Ge'ez Frontier Foundati