Microsoft recently released Windows 7, which included Amharic and many other African languages. I did cover that story in my post, entitled, “Microsoft to Release Windows 7 in Amharic, Ethiopian National Language, and Nine Other African Languages“, which you can read by clicking here.
I have not upgraded to Windows 7 yet, so I don’t have a personal experience to write my own review on how the system works and how good or bad it is.
Because many people have shown a great deal of interest in the Amharic system, I did a little bit of research and have found the following information:
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March 18, 2010
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Since I started writing this blog on September 10, 2009, I have been contacted by many people with good words and encouragements. It feels good when I know that, many people are reading my posts and like what I have written so far.
I have decided to summarize my 2009 posts here in one post. Well, there were 17 posts for 2009 as started in September 2009. In 2010, I plan to write 52 posts at the rate of one a week.
Click on any of the following links to read in more details.
September 2009
Sept 10: Happy Ethiopian New Year to All
Sept 17: To Buy a House or Not to Buy – Part 1
Sept 24: To Buy a House or Not to Buy – Part 2
October 2009
October 1: To Buy a House or Not to Buy – Part 3
October 8: Thanksgiving and Ethiopians in Vancouver
October 15: Ethiopian Community of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada
October 22: Just How Big is the Internet? Let us Print the Entire Internet, Honey!
October 29: H1N1 Vaccination – Is it Good for me?
November 2009
November 5: Remembrance Day in Canada
November 11: The Contribution of Ethiopia and Other African Nations for World Peace During the WWII
November 19: Cool Things You Can Do with the Internet
November 26: Advertisements in North America – Prey Upon Fear – With An Ethiopian Eye
December 2009
December 3: Role Model Ethiopian – Daniel W. Yohannes
December 10: An Ethiopian Blogger’s View: Is Greed Good Or Bad?
December 17: Just How Big is the Internet in China?
December 24: An Ethiopian Blogger’s View: Are all African Presidents/Prime Ministers Corrupt?
December 31: Microsoft to Release Windows 7 in Amharic, Ethiopian National Language, and Nine Other African Languages
I plan to write some interesting topics in 2010.
If you have any topic in mind that you want me to write about, please let me know.
Do you like to suggest a topic and/or contribute an article? If so, please contact me in the form below.
May the New Year Bring Peace, Harmony, Unity, Love and Prosperity and Good Health to us all and to our motherland, Ethiopia and to our fatherland, Canada!
My next blog entry will be on Thursday January 14, 2010.
Mullkam Samint!
January 7, 2010
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Ethiopia, the second most populous nation in Africa (after Nigeria) has a population of 80 million this year (2009). There are 84 languages (these are totally different languages) and more than 200 dialects in Ethiopia. However, Amharic remains Ethiopia’s national language. It is estimated that 50% of the population speak Amharic (as first language and second language speakers).
Although Ethiopia is one of the oldest nations in the world, its languages did not develop fully to express scientific words and phrases. Many attempts to translate text books into Amharic failed miserably.
So, English remains the primary business language of Ethiopia; and all subjects are taught in English from grade 7 and above, including colleges and universities.
Until recently, Geez fonts were not available in Microsoft Office packages. We had to buy and download the fonts from Ethiopian programmers’ websites. The idea of buying Geez fonts has made me very upset over the years. Mind you … when all the rich nations were getting free fonts, but poor Ethiopians, other Africans and Asians were subjected to really expensive charges just to get fonts.
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December 31, 2009
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