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<p>
Noto Serif Ethiopic is a modulated (“serif”) design for texts in the African
<em>Ethiopic</em> script.
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<p>
Noto Serif Ethiopic has multiple weights and widths,, contains 566 glyphs, 5
OpenType features, and supports 505 characters from 4 Unicode blocks:
Ethiopic, Ethiopic Extended, Ethiopic Extended-A, Ethiopic Supplement.
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<h3>Supported writing systems</h3>
<h4>Ethiopic</h4>
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<p>
Ethiopic (Geʽez, <span class="autonym">ግዕዝ, ፊደል</span>) is an African abugida,
written left-to-right (18 million users). Used for Ethiosemitic languages like
Tigré, Amharic and Tigrinya and some Cushitic and Nilotic languages. Was used
in the 1st12th century CE in Ethiopia and Eritrea for the Geʽez language (now
a liturgical language). Needs software support for complex text layout
(shaping). Read more on
<a href="https://scriptsource.org/scr/Ethi">ScriptSource</a>,
<a href="https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch19.pdf#G14116"
>Unicode</a
>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924:Ethi">Wikipedia</a>,
<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Ethiopic_script"
>Wiktionary</a
>, <a href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/links?iso=Ethi">r12a</a>.
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