Ethiopian Language Support for the Babel Package Version 0.7 Berhanu Beyene Manfred Kudlek Olaf Kummer Jochen Metzinger Universit¨at Hamburg, FB Informatik, AB TGI Vogt-K¨olln-Straße 30, D-22527 Hamburg October 7, 2006 Abstract The Ethiopian script differs considerably from the Latin script. Most important, it consists of more than 350 different letters. A new tran- scription method is presented that can be used for the L A T E X typesetting system. It was implemented on the basis of the multilingual typesetting package babel. In addition to a guide to the concrete usage of our system, we provide technical details of the implementation and sketch the reasons for our design decisions. Linguistic and historical information on the Ethiopian script is also included. €uÕ—° Õ∫f ΂tÓÍÑ Õ∫f ¼‰²n Õ∫f …¥g ΰ†Î ¶w ~ ßlµ Î√³Îw ¼ 350 ¤‰y âÔ‰tn ÎÑÈ Œ…· ¶w ~ …¶Êhn âÔ‰t L A T E X ¤°§† ÎÕhàt €³³l ≈◊¶§¤”Ñ ÈØ Î‚tÓÍÑn Õ∫f ¤‰²n łnł †ŒÓf Î√Ñsml €Ös Ñ€ÓÓf ÈÎ (Transcription) °ÈÝ¥µ ◊r−l ~ Î{n΀ÓÓf ÈØ †Œ°◊m ¼√Ñsml ŒŒ”Ñ Ýr; ΀°¡◊Ωn ´k¸¿l zrzr¹ †mn y„n ΀ÓÓf ŒnÚd †Œ°qm …nÔ˜n €›yt¹l ~ s† ‚tÓÍÑ łnłÇm €ÓÓf Èع Îłnł ³”¿Ä Œ£Çm ¤Êh µ¹t ‰y €k†n¤³l ~ 1