The bees of Ethiopia are next level: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

If you're local to Alexandria, VA, here's a rare opportunity to see an Amharic film in a major movie theater. Kidist Bayelign's latest film, Liya, will be presented at the Regal Theater in Kingstowne, Alexandria on Sunday, November 16th. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/liya-ticke...

The latest update now finds 198 Ge'ez manuscripts back online! Bravo @britishlibrary.bsky.social !

"Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries" - the final work of the late Dr. Marilyn Heldman has been published today: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...

Scenes of Ge'ez calligraphy, animated ... cool! Great job all around! Even more animations in the channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxzR...

Aleme Tadesse, the Menbere typeface designer, demonstrates Ge'ez calligraphy: youtu.be/sda5RUJM0O0?...

Josh Johnson sporting a Musnad outfit at the Emmys tonight. A repeating pattern of 𐩨𐩱𐩯𐩱 , would love to know a translation or if it is just a pattern.

መልካም አዲስ ዓመት! 🏵️፳፻፲፰🏵️ A new keyboard for a new year! A simple QWERTY-style design modeled on the iPhone & iPad layouts. keyman.com/keyboards/gf... Dedicated in memory of Yohannes Ejigu, a self-taught app developer whose Fyn Ge'ez keyboard set the quality standard - brilliant light sorely missed.

The first update in a year and a half adds 28 typefaces to the “Legally Free Geʾez Fonts” collection. In total, a gift of 198 typefaces from just over 30 designers, totally free for you to use and enjoy! #Ethiopic github.com/geezorg/lega... Preview of new additions:

Hey @visithmml.bsky.social , thanks for posting this great news & milestone on your Facebook page -but please don't forget your Bluesky community 😁 hmml.org/collections/...

The GFF Amharic Keyman Keyboard v3.3 is ready for download (desktop & mobile), keyman.com/keyboards/gf... The desktop keyboard now provides the wonderful Agbalumo and Menbere fonts. The full listing of bundled fonts appears below:

By 2021, the @britishlibrary.bsky.social had digitized 300 Ethiopian Manuscripts. Since the October 2023 cyberattack, 36 have been restored. This spreadsheet (docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) lists the manuscripts and maps the old URL to the new. Sources used are in the spreadsheet (2nd tab).

ICYMI, the Agbalumo #Ethiopic font was integrated into Agbalumo proper and became available recently at the Google Fonts site for all to enjoy. Bravo Raphael Alẹ́gbẹ́lẹ́yẹ̀ and all involved! fonts.google.com/specimen/Agb...

A new, color, scan of the undeciphered scroll in the @transcrireada.bsky.social‬ collection was published online this month. The scans give a boost to a new effort attempting to decipher it: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... ‪

RIP @babelstone.co.uk , you will be sorely missed 😥 . corp.unicode.org/pipermail/un...

So this popped up in my youtube feed today, I had missed the original video release. "Wow" to put it mildly. The language change, use of horns, and performance in suits are all delightfully jarring: youtu.be/8kVYdLjoyPE?...

The Harege Fidelat and Mesobe Fidelat mobile keyboards received updates last week that polish some CSS stylings. Search for the keyboards by name from your Keyman mobile app to install.

A minor update now available. A touch of glow has been added to keys when tapped. iPhone and Android views below.

Publication day! 🤩🥳 We are extremely excited to share the new volume of AETHIOPICA with you! Vol. 27 (2024) is hot off the press, and also available online in open access. journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/i...

ዝክረ ቅዱስ ያሬድ -a sermon in English: www.youtube.com/watch?v=grwC...

The Geʾez Frontier Foundation's Keyman mobile keyboard for Amharic v3.2 arrives. Updates include: hints (top-right corner of keys), flick, and multi-tap entry: keyman.com/keyboards/gf...

ኼኽ › ኬክ ? Some kind of hipster cake? Or maybe someone's "k" key got stuck. Nice pastries nonetheless.

An interview with Yemane Russom, of GeezSoft, on the publishing of Woldeab Woldemariam's final book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ker...

Sign of the times. Free cards for the public at the Alexandria, VA library. Sad that they would be needed, I'm impressed by multilingual translation effort.

The Kassahun Checole Prize in African Studies: globalsouth.org/kassahun-che...

With a file date of 1995/07/23, I'm seeing this flowchart (one of a dozen) again after nearly 30 years. Following the extraction from a magneto-optical (MagOp) drive. Deriving all conjugations of Amharic verbs from the infinitive stem. Had lots of these before attempting algorithms #BlastFromThePast

No prank about it, today is the start of the "36 Days of Type Ethiopic". An Instagram+Telegram celebration by Ethiopic type designers of the many styles of Ethiopic letter type. From the most formal to the purely whimsical. Follow on Instagram via the host's channel: www.instagram.com/geezfonts/

Just noticed how this sample ends with another abbreviation of ዓመተ፡ምሕረት , in style that's a little humorous in a modern interpretation: "ዓመተ፡ምሕ" which reads: "amete meh..." 🫤 , which goes along with the erroneous number 🙂

ሐምሌ፡፲፮፡ቀን፡፲፱፻፷፡ዓ፡ም፡ም፡ One more ምሕረት for good measure, I guess. ዓመተ ምሕረት is possibly the phrase that has been abbreviated (in regular use) since the earliest time. Also with the most variation: ዓ፡ም፡ , ዓ፤ም፤ , ዓ.ም. , ዓ.ም , ዓ/ም , & ዓም

I think you mean ፲፱፻፳፮ -? A misprint in Rome, from p.4 of "ጥንታውዊ፡ሆሄ፡ዘልሳነ፡ግዕዝ።" by Abba Teklemaryam Semharay Selam (አባ ተክለ ማርያም ሰምሃራይ ሰላም), published in 1930GC. From Keren, Eritrea, he was a scholar, linguist, mathematician, liturgist & prolific writer: www.eparchyofkeren.com/topics/Abba....

Just picked up on an interesting schism. ትቤ አክሱም መኑ አንተ & የካም መታሰቢያ, both by Asres Yenesew and printed in 1951. ትቤ is typeset with Ethiopic Wordspace, but not የካም. The difference might be the publishing house, ንግድ ማተሚያ ቤት (አዲስ አበባ) vs አሥመራ በኮከብ ጽባሕ ማተሚያ ቤት. Which tracks with the geographic divide.

Just picked up on an interesting schism. ትቤ አክሱም መኑ አንተ & የካም መታሰቢያ, both by Asres Yenesew and printed in 1951. ትቤ is typeset with Ethiopic Wordspace, but not የካም. The difference might be the publishing house, ንግድ ማተሚያ ቤት (አዲስ አበባ) vs አሥመራ በኮከብ ጽባሕ ማተሚያ ቤት. Which tracks with the geographic divide.

Aquaquam is a specialization within the Ethiopian Orthodox chant tradition. The Re'es Adberat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam church in Washington, DC has begun producing videos to support students who attend Saturday classes conducted by grandmaster Moges Seyoum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Ln...

"ግዕዝም", in Saho language, means "sausage". So now Ge'ez makes me hungry… I blame Yaros Gutgarts.

Memories of the late Tekie Alibekit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU7-...

Join us on February 26 at 11 a.m. (CT). for “Inspired Grace: The Ethiopic Miracles of Mary,” with special guest Dr. Jeremy R. Brown.   This free, virtual event is part of HMML's four-part Winter Lecture Series. Learn more and RSVP: hmml.org/programs/eve...

Marking two years since the passing of the late #Blin cultural champion, Tekie Alibekit, friends of the scholar have opened an Academia archive for some of his written work: independent.academia.edu/TekieAlibekit

መልካም ገና! For all those celebrating Orthodox Christmas. I'm rather taken by this Ge'ez "Vector" typeface by Abel Daniel (BelaFonts/BelaGraph).

Inspired by the Google Fonts website, graphic designer Nebiyu Daniel launches an #Ethiopic typeface previewer: fonts.nebadesign.me

Enjoying the return of the BL's 15th century, Or. 711 (ገድለ ገብረ መንፈስ ቅዱስ, iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes...) this morning. The more you immerse into it, the more beautiful you come to realize the strokes are. መ, ቤ, ለ, ወ, ረ … all of it. The scribe uses the conjunctive ፲ generously (f.4v).

Dr Jonas Karlsson's PhD dissertation is now available online. Likely the most thorough corpus study of the antiphons of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's liturgical year. "The Diachronic Development of the Dǝggʷā - A Study of Texts and Manuscripts…" ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/handle/ediss...

Raphael Alegbeleye's "Agbalumo Ethiopic" typeface debuts today as a complement to the Latin Agbalumo typeface in the Google Fonts collection. Available for download + donation at Gumroad: columntype.gumroad.com

Abyssinica SIL 2.3 arrives with the ግ‍ዚ ligature, applied electively as per Unicode Technical Note #55 (www.unicode.org/notes/tn55/). The GFF Geʾez keyboard will be updated to help make typing it easier (copy and paste ግ‍ዚ until then). Download: software.sil.org/abyssinica/

ኢትዮጲክ፤ የአፍሪካ አጻጻፍ ስርዓት Ethiopic: Writing System of Africa September 18 - October 16 Dorothy Leland Gallery, Georgia College & State University.

Derived from the Abyssinica SIL font, this is the initial release of the "Exodus" font, an approximation of the typeface used on the cover of Bob Marley's 1977 Exodus album, created in celebration with the release of the 2024 film “One Love”. github.com/raeytype/exo...

From a work in progress. These numbers invariably float around a bit, so any tally is an approximation.

Continuing on from last week, a reaction to Monotype's #Amharic 624: typo.social/@ethiopic/11...

FWIW, A New Year's celebration of sorts, of Monotype's Amharic 599 metal type punches. A very long reaction thread over on typo.social: typo.social/@ethiopic/11...

A draft work depicting the hymn that Saint Yared was chanting for Emprorer Gebre Meskel in his moment of awe. Sung in Araray (ዓራራይ, lower level) mode vs Ezil (ዕዝል, upper level). The year is a guess/placeholder for now (assumes St. Yared is 25 years old) while I review some more detailed sources.