AbyssinicaSILTypeTunerGuide

TheEthiopicscriptdoesnotrequiremuchrenderingexceptforsomecombiningmarksforgeminationandvowellength.
AbyssinicaSILprovidesbothOpenTypeandGraphiterenderingsolutions.However,therearesomeglyphvariationsfor
theEthiopicscript.SomeapplicationslettheusercontrolcertainfeaturessuchasStylisticSetsorCharacterVariantsto
turnontherenderingofvariantcharacters.However,atthispoint,mostapplicationsdonotmakeuseofthosefeatures
soanothersolutionisneededtoshowthevariantcharacters.TypeTunercreatestunedfontsthatusethevariantglyph
inplaceofthestandardglyph.TheTypeTunerWebsiteishttp://scripts.sil.org/ttw/fonts2go.cgi.
Thetablebelowgivesavisualrepresentationofthefeaturedvariantglyphsinthefont.Theshadedlinesshowwhatisin
thestandardfont.Whenyouselectadifferentfeaturesetting,thosevariantcharactershapeswillnowbecomethe
defaultinthenewfont.
Tunablefeature
Punctuation

Featuresetting Charactershapes
Ethiopicstyle
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Latinstyle

mwaalternates(U+121F)

rwaalternate(U+122F)

xoaalternate(U+1287)

xwaalternates(U+1288..U+128D)

nwaalternate(U+1297)

nyaalternates(U+1298..U+129E)

nywaalternates(U+129F)

kxwaaalternate(U+12C3)

zhaalternates(U+12E0..U+12E6)

ddaalternates(U+12F8..U+12FE)

gwaaalternates(U+1313)

Standard
Alternate1
Alternate2
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Handwriting
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Disconnected
Standard
Disconnected
Cohen
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Cohen
Chaine
Standard
Alternate
Standard
SebatBet
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Tunablefeature
ggaalternates(U+1318..U+131E)

ggwaaalternate(U+131F)

phealternate(U+1335)

fwaalternates(U+134F)

ryaalternate(U+1358)

myaalternate(U+1359)

mwialternates(U+1381)

mwealternates(U+1383)

bwealternate(U+1387)

fweealternate(U+138A)

fwealternate(U+138B)

pwealternate(U+138F)

ggwaalternates(U+2D93..U+2D96)

3rdformalternates
(U+124AU+12B2U+12C2U+1312U+1385
U+138D)

6thformalternates
(U+124DU+12B5U+12C5U+1315)

Featuresetting
Standard
Disconnected
Standard
Disconnected
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Cohen1
Cohen2
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Alternate
Standard
SebatBet
Leslau
Standard
SebatBet
Leslau
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Alternate
Standard
Disconnected
Standard
Alternate

Charactershapes

Standard
Alternate

10

7
11

7
11

11

11

11

11

9

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References
Alone,JohnPhilipHerbertMackenzie.1946(Fourthedition).TheAloneStokesShortManualoftheAmharicLanguage
(withvocabularies).MacmillanandCo.Limited:London.
Chane,Marius.1907.Grammairethiopienne.Imprimeriecatholique.Beyrouth.
Cohen,Marcel.1970Secondeedition.Traitdelangueamharique(Abyssinie).Institutd'ethnologie:Paris.
Leslau,Wolf.1966.EthiopiansSpeak:StudiesinCulturalBackground.Part2:Chaha.UniversityofCaliforniaPublication.
NearEasternStudies,Volume9.UniversityofCaliforniaPress:Berkeley
Praetorius,Franz.1955.AethiopischeGrammatikmitParadigmen,Litteratur,ChrestomathieundGlossar.Frederick
UngarPublishingCo.NewYork.
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Chane(p3),Cohen(table2)
Cohen(table2)
3
Gumuzlanguagepreference
4
AloneStokes,Chane(p3),Cohen(table1)
5
Chane(p3)
6
ArchaicOromolanguagepreference
7
SebatBetlanguagepreference
8
AloneStokes(insidebackcover)
9
Bilenlanguagepreference
10
Praetorius(p6)
11
Leslau
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