WO2024069238A1 - A standard ethiopic keyboard - Google Patents

Abstract

A programing method that increased the number of keys and vowels available especially for Ethiopic typing to render and settle in computer and virtual keyboards by many folds is described. The Ethiopic Unicode or other glyphs close to 500 where the default is typed with one keystroke each differently with a novel method and the rest with two keystrokes each more efficiently is described. It is also possible to increase the keystrokes of some to three, especially to make typing simple with consideration to the smaller spread of the keys on computers. The number of keys that act as vowels and work simultaneously has been increased to dozens. "Tab" and "Shifted tab" key use has been introduced.

Description

A Standard Ethiopic Keyboard CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS Ever since the computer got the power to make foreign fonts in 1982, the inventor has continued to improve on Ethiopic writing system. The current invention incorporates previous US patents by the inventor and is a follow up on what was submitted as a design application number 29/854,924 on September 29, 2022, a provisional application number 63/294,691 on December 29, 2021 and continuation application number 63/343,838 of May 5, 2022 to USPTO is hereby incorporated. FIELD OF THE INVENTION The efficiency of the Ethiopic novel writing system in QWERTY, Heleheme, and other layouts including virtual abbreviated, non-abbreviated, ligated keyboards and the like as well as those useable by other non-default and Unicode alphabets in more than one typing methods in different layouts of the Ethiopic and some other foreign glyphs and on-screen keyboards is described. The use of command keys, glyphs on the numeric keypad, timeout, long hold, double and triple keystrokes of a key as well as populated or highlighted balloons and pop ups are optional. Different computer and smartphone program as well as dedicated Ethiopic publisher for more than a dozen separate Ethiopic character sets and the whole Ethiopic Molla System writing is described. An additional key to the Latin smartphone keyboard has been added for efficiency. A simplified typing of the Ethiopic characters with no more than three keystrokes each is described for gadgets such as computer keyboards and smartphones. Compatibility and abbreviations were put into consideration so that the same system is utilized across instruments. It is now possible to type and settle a glyph in more than one method. The “#+=” button is an important part of the Ethiopic writing system. Introduction of a “#+=” button on the default Latin page of smartphones is to reduce keystrokes. BACKGROUND It is now 40 years since the inventor started working on typing Ethiopic in computers, computerized it with MegaWriter in 1893 (FIG 54) and successfully patented it though many have continued to undermine it. Examples of software presented commercially since 1987 are “ModEth” (FIG 54), “EthioWord” (FIG 110) and “GeezEdit” (FIG 49). An example description is available as https://archive.ph/LWaLI as “Ethiopic Computerization and “Advances made by Ethiopians in the computer technology”, 1991- http://ethiopic.com/advances-made-ethiopians-computer-technology/. An example of one of four recent USA patents granted to Dr. Aberra Molla is patent number 10,133,362. Ethiopic is a script invented by ancient Ethiopians in continuous use for thousands of years that took advantage of the printing press since 1513 AD. As recently described in application by the inventor numerous methods have been presented by variety of people and none were successful mainly because of lack of scientific merit. However, they have become successful by presenting software that were distributed freely or cheaply and it has become difficult to teach the science to the consumers. This current invention is another breakthrough method of Ethiopic documentation. Hopefully, it could improve those of other world glyphs too as it brings others to its folds. In spite of these Ethiopic documentation has remained a problem for numerous reasons. An example of current problems is at https://www.ethiocloud.com/brannaeditor.aspx In Branna Editor vowels like are typed with four keystrokes while

“^” needs six.

also need six and there is no guaranty that the glyph has been settled. Here as one type words such as

with seven keystroke and if the cursor is taken between the two glyphs and an “E” is typed with “shift e”, the word is changed to

because the

was typed, but never settled. On the other hand, adding as “E” after the

can’t change it. The point here is Ethiopian elites could not understand the ” word was never settled and the nonsense Ethiopic was never documented over the last 35 years. This ignorance was shared by bigger companies where the Amharic spelling of “ and

is the same. See:

At one has to add a space to type most of the characters. These methods can

be described as dumping what is on the screen just the way the Amharic typewriter did. At

the method uses multiple keystrokes on computers with no allowance for smartphones. Another example is at

Such problematic issues are also at

and Amharic typewriter method at

Decades have passed since fake Amharic as well as real Ethiopic applicants have been cheating the consumers. FIG 111. This is because many did not even know that Ethiopic was computerized in 1983 for the first time using two keystrokes per character. A recent unpublished document titled “Following Orders” describes some of these. The basic purpose of this invention is to discourage waste of time by those who plagiarize ideas without documenting Ethiopic and to improve on the methods. FIG 55 say that Keyman does not type some Ethiopic glyphs as advertised. Ethiopic writing system that the inventor has documented with two keystrokes each has been transformed to three keystrokes. Unlike the English typewriter that became the computer and smartphone keyboard, only the methods by the current inventor were compatible for computers and smartphones. Any Ethiopic method should accommodate all Ethiopic without displacing any other Ethiopic- user language character sets. Character sets could be switched to through menus as done in GeezEdit. The presence of a language set should not interfere with another set. For instance, an Amharic set should not interfere with that of Geez language or the whole Ethiopic. Since Amharic is part of the Ethiopic script, no Amharic should be presented excluding other Ethiopic sets mainly for the sake of avoiding confusion. The principle on which Ethiopic typing is based is rendering and settling the most commonly used Ethiopic glyph with a keystroke each just like the Latin system. The 37 primary or first order glyphs were given a key name each just like the Latin system. The default position was given to the Latin small alphabet because they were the most commonly used alphabets. Similarly, these keys were given to the sixth order Ethiopic because they were the most commonly used Ethiopic with similar sound like the English. Unfortunately, this has been jeopardized when it comes to Ethiopic because of dependence on the Latin keyboard keys. Using illegal methods that have embraced fake typing of Amharic has endangered Ethiopic resulting in the use of multiple keystrokes without rendering glyphs. It should be remembered that Ethiopic should not be altered or forced to mimic Latin methods because of the large number of the Geez character set. In spite of this, the current invention has surpassed expectations by involving less keys while accommodating more than one way to type a glyph with one to three keystrokes. Command keys such “Tab”, “Ctrl”, “Alt”, “Arrows” and even second “slash” keys were made available for typing. Ethiopic numeral typing was introduced. With the exception of the patented invented methods, Ethiopic documentation has been dragged back for decades by copycats and the Ethiopian society that has no knowledge of as well as respect for intellectual properties. The Ethiopian government encouraged software piracy as the country had no patent laws. Fake writing systems were freely introduced to a level where it is now better to improve on them than sticking to science. Even more recent methods have continued to follow the same incomplete methods. Many have been advocating the typing of Ethiopic by imitating the Latin accent typing methods where a glyph shows up on the screen so that the user types a glyph by carefully scooting through the list and releasing the cursor on arriving at the wanted one. This is a huge waste of time especially when the patented GeezEdit was available at USA patent Number 10,133,362 (https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f4/0c/17/9ee76b1bb738ba/US10133362.pdf) describes how an Ethiopic glyph is rendered and settled with one, two or three keystrokes. Earlier methods by the inventor involved sharing the keys and the codes with English where the 065 code for “A” was shared by the

Since the computer had codes for English alphabet, numerals and symbols on the 101 key keyboard the eight orders of the “A” or the Geez

shared the same code spot for the eight fonts. Ethiopic was computerized by recalling the font with one key and rendering the Ethiopic glyph with the second keystroke. With the advent of Unicode each and every one of the Ethiopic glyph got its own code point. However, the same keyboard has to be shared as the computer does not have about 500 keys. The current invention is to limit the typing of the glyphs in keys around the “F” and “J” with no more than three keystroke per Geez glyph. SUMMARY An improved Ethiopic typing system where defaults are typed with one and the rest with a maximum of two or three keystrokes to render and settle a glyph is described. The method is uniform across platforms and operating systems that vary from usages in computers, smartphones, laptops and the like. It also applies similarly in keyboards such as QWERTY, Heleheme

or others layouts in computers, smartphones and the like including abbreviated, virtual, custom, on-screen, etc. Typing can be achieved through the use of fingers as well as methods that mimic it and vary from mouse clicks to external keyboards separately or simultaneously. The novel methods include typing by clicking on any one of the vowel forms or selections hat appear on striking an Ethiopic glyph or its shifted and numeric forms as well as using touch screen, mouse clicks and keyboarding at the same time as in usage of on-screen keyboards. More than one typing methods and layouts can be used from a keyboard and timeout and disable keys are optional. The purpose is to incorporate Ethiopic in any application that allow the usage of the font or typeface and include coding key sequences that may or may not result in their appearances of on the screen. The novel method is to limit typing around the “F” and “J” home keys in computers and virtual keyboards without eliminating older methods. The default keys are utilized to render single characters each that include vowel keys such as

the number, numeric and command keys. The shifted forms of the vowels are also similarly utilized. Numbers and symbols on the numeric pad also type a glyph each from single keystrokes. In one method a character is rendered with one to three keystrokes such that the glyph is settled with second activity involving programming of the sequences and the typeface. In another the activities are performed in the reverse directions with the same end results provided they do not interfere with the typing. Glyphs rendered with one or two keystrokes are also rendered and settled with non-printable glyphs just like the single keystroke varieties optionally. There is thus no need to utilize more than three keystrokes to type and render Ethiopic and similar number of glyphs. Long holds and appearance of glyphs in a row showing the glyphs or just highlighting the choices can also be optional. The point here is to incorporate what others have tried and correct them with the new features. The novel methods can also use previous ones. For instance, the numbers 1234567890 can also be typed by long holding the “Q” to “P” keys or whatever other keys are assigned there as in AZERTY,

etc. keyboards. This feature in turn leaves the Ethiopic numerals 1234567890 to be typed with the shifted tab and the numbers to type the Arabic numerals. As shown in the Ethiopic keyboard figure all the alphabetic keys can work by long hold to type the 40 digits and numbers making the tabbed number typing optional. and this is another novelty. One of the important features of the current invention is typing the numbers with a shifted “tab” leaving the number keys alone to be used as second sets of vowels. In a similar manner the shifted vowels and numbers are disabled and used as vowels. The invention describes novel methods of expanding the keyboard for many languages and the breakthrough is really worth celebrating. The invention expands on the number of glyphs that can be typed by improving the functionality of the keys. More important than that the novel method eliminates the gimmicks others have utilized to render and settle Ethiopic without scientifically sound solutions or rendering them. Apart from characters on the number keys, the Molla system may have additional row of characters or command keys at the bottom or top. The potential methods of typing a glyph with three keystrokes are high and there is thus no need to use four. The method is applicable to custom keyboarding and moving the glyphs around is not novel or exclude. The system includes typing the novel Ethiopic Extended-B. The novel method includes dedicated Ethiopic and English keys, publisher (EthioSuite) with numerous features Ethiopic needs and these are too numerous to describe here. The novel method also introduced an independent novel virtual “#=+” key that in the past appeared secondary to striking the “123” key for Latin keyboards such as English. An expanded similar key is introduced to virtual keyboards to accommodate Ethiopic with second shift and this is an important addition. The main purpose of this novelty is to ensure that Geez is properly documented. This is because some misguided people left behind millions of documents which in turn have become a source of misinformation. The Ethiopic writing system is the basis on which the future of Ethiopic is based and should thus be scientific. In the future we intend to use the Ethiopic for newer technologies including operating systems. Actually, Ethiopic is an excellent script in that it is not affected by spelling errors as in Latin and its potential is promising. Last but not least the current invention adds efficiency to documentation of other world glyphs including Latin. In 1991, the inventor wrote in the Ethiopian Review magazine, that Ethiopic might bridge the gap between the human brain and the computer. Cover Picture FIGURES BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND THE FIGURES FIG 1. Amharic Computer Default Layout FIG 2. Amharic Default FIG 3. Amharic shift FIG 4. Amharic Default Plus Numbers and Symbols FIG 5. Ethiopic Shift, Numbers and Symbols FIG 6. Ethiopic Layout FIG 7. Ethiopic symbols and digits FIG 8. An Ethiopic Heleheme layout with numeric vowels FIG 9 Amharic Computer Keyboard QWERTY Layout FIG 10. Amharic Smartphone Keyboard QWERTY Layout Fig 11. An Ethiopic ABSHA computer keyboard showing some non-default glyphs Fig 12. Optional glyphs assigned to the number keys. FIG 13. Amharic Computer On-Screen layout works with GeezEdit ABSHA/Molla FIG 14. A-Z Ethiopic keys 15. The Ethiopic alphabetic and numeric vowels 16. An example Ethiopic layout FIG 17. Computer Amharic layout, some shifted glyphs typed with two keystrokes each FIG 18. Computer Amharic layout, numbers typed with the “depressed tab” first keystroke

FIG 19. An Example computer Amharic layout, symbols typed with glyphs and number keys FIG 20. Computer Ethiopic layout, some shared keys typed with the vowels, shifted vowels and numbers Fig 21. Numeric keypad optional Fig 22. Smartphone layout, the seven vowel keys where

is default FIG 23. Smartphone symbols typed with glyphs and numbers FIG 24. Smartphone, some glyph assignment to type defaults with “6” FIG 25. Smartphone Ethiopic example layout FIG 26. Smartphone Heleheme layout example FIG 27. Current English FIG 28. Smartphone Molla English FIG 29. Smartphone Molla Default English with numbers FIG 30. Smartphone shift English FIG 31. The ABC layout FIG 32. The 123 Layout FIG 33. The “#-+” layout FIG 34 A novel virtual key “#=+” to appear on the default keyboard eliminating an unnecessary extra keystroke. FIG 35. An example layout worth improving from previous patent applications FIG 36. An example key sequence assignment in GeezEdit and EthioSuite Fig 37. An example of smartphone Ethiopic for use with current novelty FIG 38. An example of assigning keys to many FIG 39. Amharic Heleheme Layout FIG 40. Another Amharic Heleheme Layout FIG 41. Ethiopic Heleheme example FIG 42. Heleheme Ethiopic example FIG 43. ABSHA Ethiopic FIG 44. An example Amharic screen with many rows FIG 45. Another example Ethiopic screen with many rows FIG 46. New smartphone Ethiopic

/# ” key FIG 47. The GeezEdit and EthioSuite Amharic Keymap Maintenance FIG 48. Ethiopic Molla system On-Screen keyboard in EthioSuite FIG 49. ABSHA system Amharic in iPhone from 2015 in 2022 (US Patent Number 9,733,724) FIG 50. ABSHA system shifted Amharic in iPhone from 2015 in 2022 FIG 51. Heleheme layout on a QWERTY computer FIG 52. Ethiopic EthioSuite Active Help Enabled FIG 53. MegaWriter in 1983, the app with which Ethiopic was computerized by Dr. Aberra Molla FIG 54. One of the ModEth Ethiopic Keyboard Layouts in DOS FIG 55. Keyman does not write some glyphs in 2022 FIG 56. Amharic 26 keys FIG 57. Ethiopic 26 keys FIG 58. Another Amharic 30 keys smartphone FIG 59. Another Ethiopic 30 keys computer FIG 60. This computer keyboard can be similarly simulated in smartphones FIG 61. This computer keyboard can be similarly simulated in smartphones as shifted mapping. The “^” series could be typed by double striking the vowels. FIG 62. Amharic 30 computer FIG 63. Keystroke examples FIG 64. Shifted Amharic and shifted tab with optional vowel “v” keys and to type with less or more than 26 alphabet keys FIG 65. Amharic: shifted and shifted tab with additional example vowels, “v” FIG 66. Ethiopic Hele example, numbers and “xcvbnm,./” are double vowels FIG 67. The “K” key FIG 68. Unicode Ethiopic 2022 FIG 69. GeezEdit Amharic in ABSHA system FIG 70. GeezEdit ABSHA in ABSHA system Ethiopic keyboard and Active help FIG 71. Molla system EthioSuite Active Help Enabled, also to type by clicking on the Ethiopic glyph FIG 72. Amharic Computer Colored Layout FIG 73. The 100 Ethiopic symbols and digits FIG 74. Amharic Computer layout with symbols FIG 75. Ethiopic Computer Colored Layout FIG 76. Ethiopic computer options 11 FIG 77. An example of assigning keys to many rows FIG 78. Amharic Smartphone Default Positions FIG 79. Amharic Smartphone Default Glyphs FIG 80. Ethiopic 26 alphabetic keys FIG 81. Ethiopic with 13 character sets FIG 82. Amharic smartphone “shift” FIG 83. Amharic Smartphone “tab” FIG 84. Amharic Smartphone “123” FIG 85. Amharic Smartphone “!@#” option FIG 86. Amharic Smartphone “tab” option FIG 87. Ethiopic smartphone symbols option example FIG 88. Ethiopic smartphone FIG 89. Amharic computer default option FIG 90. Ethiopic smartphone default option FIG 91. Ethiopic Smartphone Shift with letters and numbers FIG 92. Ethiopic smartphone symbols option example FIG 93. Ethiopic Smartphone “#+=” FIG 94. Ethiopic Smartphone

“ ” option FIG 95. Ethiopic smartphone “!@#” or

e.g.

FIG 96. Ethiopic smartphone “#-+” FIG 97. Ethiopic smartphone Meen/DN FIG 98. Ethiopic smartphone DN

e.g DMNPT

with period FIG 99. Ethiopic smartphone DN e.g D for

FIG 100. Default Amharic FIG 10111 keys per row FIG 102. Ethiopic Computer FIG 103. GeezEdit On-Screen keyboard FIG 104. Amharic: shifted and shifted tab with additional example vowel “v” keys FIG 105. Amharic: default ABSHA/Molla with additional example vowels FIG 106. Ethiopic: default ABSHA/Molla with additional example vowels FIG 107. Ethiopic: default ABSHA/Molla with another layout FIG 108. ABSHA to modify to Molla system FIG 109. EthioSuite 2022 ĨThe Standard Ethiopic Keyboard - continuation) FIGURES FIG 1. Amharic Computer Default Layout FIG 2. Amharic Default

FIG 3. Amharic shift Amharic Shift FIG 4. Amharic Default Plus Numbers and Symbols

FIG 5. Shift, Numbers and Symbols FIG 6. Ethiopic FIG 7. Ethiopic symbols and digits FIG 8. An Ethiopic Heleheme layout with numeric vowels FIG 9. Amharic Computer Keyboard QWERTY Layout FIG 10. Amharic Smartphone Keyboard QWERTY Layout Fig 11. An Ethiopic ABSHA computer keyboard showing some non-default glyphs Fig 12. Optional glyphs assigned to the number keys. FIG 13. Amharic Computers On-Screen Layout FIG 14. A-Z Ethiopic keys FIG 15. The Ethiopic alphabetic and numeric vowels FIG 16. The Ethiopic Layout FIG 17. Computer Amharic layout, some shifted glyphs typed with two keystrokes each FIG. 18 Computer Amharic layout, numbers typed with the “depressed tab” first keystroke

FIG 19. An Example computer Amharic layout, symbols typed with glyphs and number keys FIG 20. Computer Ethiopic layout, some shared keys typed with the vowels, shifted vowels and numbers Fig 21. Numeric keypad optional Fig 22. Smartphone layout, the eight vowel keys FIG 23. Smartphone symbols typed with glyphs and numbers FIG 24. Smartphone some glyph assignments typing with “6” FIG 25. Smartphone Ethiopic FIG 26. Smartphone Heleheme layout example FIG 27. Smartphone Molla English Fig 28. Smartphone Molla Default English FIG 29. Smartphone shift English FIG 30. The ABC layout FIG 31. The 123 Layout FIG 32. The “#-+” layout FIG 33. A novel virtual key “#=+” to appear on the default keyboard eliminating an unnecessary extra keystroke.

FIG 34. An example layout worth improving from previous patent applications FIG 35. An example key sequence assignment in GeezEdit and EthioSuite FIG 36. An example of smartphone Ethiopic to be modified for use with current novelty FIG 37. An example of assigning keys to many DETAILED DESCRIPTION With the extensive use of the computer and rapid growth, Ethiopic has moved along primarily with forty years of work by the inventor who now has USA and Ethiopian patents. Stuck with the 26 Latin keys it was never a good idea to create a different hardware. Over the years each Ethiopic glyph was typed and settled first with two keystrokes and latter with one. Attempts to use only the aeiou vowels remained a problem. Finally, the inventor found the panacea the inventor has been looking into for and finally found it. It is like looking for a number zero and finally realizing its value and giving it a glyph to show it. The solution for Ethiopic is to assign more keys to vowels above and beyond what has been patented. The novel usage of the number and even new keys as vowels is a new breakthrough and claim. This is because opening up more layouts was crucial to type the Ethiopic orders beyond the way Geez was computerized in the 80’s. With ModEth, the DOS word processer, with which Ethiopic was computerized each Ethiopic glyph was typed with two keystrokes. EthioWord (EthioEdit) required a unique and separate Ethiopic font such as EA to type it and nine other fonts. The GeezEdit Amharic usage of the number and “tab” key were based on USA patents number 9, and 10,133,362. It also added a way to type the first order key name just like the other orders. The inventor then moved from the regressive timeout settlement of Ethiopic glyphs to the progressive one and settlement of the default as described in USA patent number 10,133,362. This current invention is taking Ethiopic to a new high level and is the final completion of its computerization in abbreviated and unabbreviated static and virtual keyboards. The current invention solves the potential problems of creating order keys using alternative methods. The need for more vowels is to get closer to the ModEth system with abbreviated keyboards. The previous ABSHA system did not require it mainly because the system was more sophisticated. The current invention thus solved the Ethiopic problems by increasing the number of keys assigned to function as vowels primarily and this is an important new claim. In the Latin system there are only two types of alphabets, the upper and lower cases and they are switched to with the shift key. Ethiopic has eight types of the script and the system thus needs to switch at least through four sets of two each. The Latin smartphone system also required a third layout and its shifted form to accommodate the numbers and symbols and the “123” and “=+” keys were used for this. Ethiopic also needed these since the inventor has decided the Latin symbols and the Arabic numerals for Ethiopic from the get go. The inventor then came up with the novel idea of increasing the keyboard by adding the number row as vowels instead of relying only on the vowels and this is another claim. Efficiency was added by including the shifted forms of the vowels and the numbers. At the same time the “ ^” vowel was added to accommodate the Meen language Ethiopic character set. This now fulfilled half of the Ethiopic needs and the inventor then added a novel key to replicate the first default and its shifted form to accommodate the four Ethiopic orders as in the case for smartphones. The name designation is another claim also because the key was for use with Latin too. The use of this key is a better alternative for the current “#+=” that appear on pressing the “123” key to type symbol keys in excess of those accommodated by the “123” key. The purpose of the “123” key is to recall the glyphs on the number keys, “1234567890” on the first row. The “-/:;()$&@” symbols in the second row and the “.,?!’” in the third row. Once the typist gets to this second layout the user has to strike another key, the “#+=” to get to a third layout from the second. From this third page the user can type 25 signs and symbols. Usually the first row has “[]{}#%^*+=”, the second, “_\|~<>$ε£.” and the currency symbols and the third row has “.,?!’”. The user then has to strike a fourth key to get back to the default page. Typing the “[” key requires striking the “123” as first key, the “#+=” key as second, the “[” glyph as third and finally the “ABC” key as fourth to get back to the default QWERTY layout. The novel keyboard by the inventor for the Latin keyboard reduces a keystroke by assigning a separate key for the “#+=”. Typing the “[” key from the default needs striking the “!@#/#-+” novel key as first keystroke and then the “[” as second while returning to the default uses the third keystroke or pressing. The avoidance of the fourth keystroke may look insignificant while it is actually billions of keystrokes and that is why it is another claim. FIGs 27-34 When the “123” or “!@#” key is pressed the Latin “ABC” or the Ethiopic labeled key appears to take the user to the default keyboard. The use of the “#+=” and “#-+” keys is also essential for Ethiopic. FIG 46. Some of the FIGURES show English or Ethiopic alphabets on the keys for reference purposes and do not mean they necessarily show up on the key positions. FIG 38. Current English This same principle applies when it comes to Ethiopic and its application here is more than saving a keystroke. The novel key which can act and named “second shift”, “!@#/#-+” or

is a critical novel key essential for Ethiopic computerization and is thus a new claim. Its usage in Ethiopic virtual keyboarding varies and is different in that the key can act like the shift key in that striking it brings up a second layout just like the left shift key of smartphones and this is another new claim that can perform as any key other than the default. From here a different set of Ethiopic glyphs are presented to be typed with the vowels and numbers. The Amharic

and ” are typed from the default keyboard by pressing the “Q” key for “ and “Q6” for “ ” and this is a novel claim. “Q6” means typing “q6”. The Tigre/Tigrigna

” is typed with the left shift

press followed by “q” typing while is typed with

from the same shifted keyboard and these are novel claims. The Guragie ” is the fifth type Ethiopic typed by default with the “!@#” “q” and another claim. There is no need for more of this variety. The “#-=” is extra on this key even though it is another usable three keystroke. Another example is to type

by default and from the left shift and

” with the new key and these are novel claims as opposed to other claims for typing

by default and

“ ” with “z6”. (Most of the Ethiopic glyphs have only three varieties and the “!@#”key comes handy. An example in Amharic is where

“^” typed by default and the

“ ” with “s6” or the shift.

“ ^” can be typed by “S6” or from the “!@#” in smartphone and the method of typing a glyph by two methods is a novel claim. In computers

“ ” can be typed with “S” or “s6”and these are different claims. Another example is “ ” typed with “y” and

“ ” with “shift y”. Unlike the static computer keyboard where the “ can be typed with “y6” or “yU” from the default keyboard, the smartphone version needs the default “!@#” to type it. All the user has to remember is that the smartphone layout allows only two types of vowels. However, a smarter method is to stick to one typing method for computers and smartphones and use “y6” for

“ ”. These explanations are examples and not limiting. Because of the involvement of the third key in the current invention the combinations are many. It is equally possible to show varieties of keyboarding and minor changes and moving the glyphs around should not be considered novel. It is even possible to come up with modifications now that the invention has shown a better way. Nor should typing a glyph with four keystrokes or presses construed as novel. It might even be better to limit a glyph typing to only one method and give the choices to a standardized one. An example is to type

“ ” with “s” and

“ ” with “S” for Amharic. The can be typed with “s6” cutting on the number of keystrokes. With such standard in mind, the “K” key was left to the

“ ” series as sharing it with

“ ” would have introduced the typing of

“ ” with four strokes as in “KV” and this is not recommended while still claimed for the sake of discouraging plagiarists. It is possible to keep both series on the “K” key and type

“ ” with

“ ”. In the smartphone environment the

can be typed with “K6” eliminating the need to assign the

“ ” series to the “slash” key. An option is to use command keys such as “ctrl”. Neither allowing both options or similar modifications should be novel as the idea is to invent a scientifically sound Ethiopic writing method as accomplished and presented as a patent application here. These issues are discussed here as some liars are still claiming that iPhone does not document Ethiopic while some are cutting back on even the Amharic glyphs such as

“^” because they can’t type it. The novel “!@#/#-+” also known as

can functions like the “123” key as another layer is a prerequisite for Ethiopic. FIG 85. It can also be used elsewhere depending on need. Programming includes suppression of the Latin typing when necessary and that is another claim. FIGs 47, 62, 69, 70. On-screen keyboard is static and virtual in computers that the invention uses. FIGs 13, 48, 103. EthioSuite (FIG 71, 109) is an Ethiopic publisher more sophisticated than ModEth and the Ethiopic features that are alien to Latin are claimed. GeezEdit is to share other apps worth billions of dollars with Ethiopic. (FIG 69, 70) It has its own Text Control. Description for the Heleheme layout as well as the smartphone versions of what was discussed above for the QWERTY are modifications. (FIGs 8, 35, 39-42) The modifications for smartphones need layouts to accommodate abbreviations. The system has 36 (FIGs 16, 42, 57) or thirty (FIG 1, 44, 45) default keys out of which eight are vowels. (FIG 22) As shown in FIGs 60, 7475 there is a need for four rows for the defaults while the fifth is for commands. The “shift” key brings up the second layout, FIG 82. The “123” brings up the number pages, FIG 83 or others, FIG 84. The “#-+” brings up the third tier glyphs to type them with the vowels and the numbers. (FIGs 84, 94, 95) The third vowels can be typed by double striking the sixth orders though that is not recommended. A better descriptive example is as follows. “ ” can be typed with “q”,

” with “Q”,

” could be typed with “qU” while

” can be typed with “Q6”.

can be typed with “q6”, FIG 88 and 102. There are also command keys such as “ctrl” for typing (FIG 20, 67). Included here are the arrows as well as the symbols on the numeric pad. (FIG 21) The numeric keypad doubles the Ethiopic numerals and smartphone have to work with this differently. (FIG 5, 73) “V” was made a dead key to make typing simple and it has been moved around because it is a recent addition to Ethiopic. (FIG 14-17) FIG 39. Amharic Layout FIG 40 Another Amharic Layout FIG 41. Ethiopic In the example Ethiopic iPhone in FIG 43 the Oromoffa

was assigned to the penny symbol and brought forward. The additional vowels could also use such methods and this is another claim. The key is associated with the extended ASCII glyphs because of shortage of keys on the 101 computer keyboard as well as similar virtual keyboards. This layout works exactly like ether QWERTY one and moving characters around does not make the invention different. The principle is also the same for Ethiopic. (FIG 45, 51) The ^^^^^^^ô^ keys at the top and bottom are to show that the keys are vowels on dead keys. The “^” position key is default and does not have to be struck or pressed. It may be available optionally for those who might miss it. For that matter any of the keys could represent the default keyboard and mapped accordingly. It was left empty without losing its position as they have values as sixth order keys especially with the whole Ethiopic sets. FIG 42 below is another Ethiopic configuration from previous methods. FIG 42. Heleheme Ethiopic example Some of the Ethiopic characters at the bottom row shown in previous patents can also be replaced with other glyphs or vowels specially in virtual keyboards. It should be understood that abbreviation of the Ethiopic keyboard from the previous ModEth one spread over the 47 to the 30 or 26 current keys do not mean abandonment. For instance, the “[” keys can be used to type

“ ” where available. This is because the previous assignment can still be accommodated where necessary. Even the key names have not been changed, but modified to accommodate the changes. The name of the “Z” key is still the Ethiopic “

^” while it renders the

“ ” on striking it just like the English system as before. Some modification includes giving “z” to “

” and “Z” to “

^” However, the

“^” key renders “

^” because it is the most commonly used order and this is also similar to typing “z” alphabet from the “Z” key. Last but not lest the current invention for the abbreviated keyboard is a twist of the old one. Ethiopic typing needed a minimum of eight English fonts to switch in and out of them. Instead of having eight vowel keys of ModEth, one can expand it to the current 10 because of the newer inclusions. The shift key reduces this to five vowel keys that can be spread outside the regular keys. These can be between the globe and the microphone as in FIG 65 or above and the programming can involve the extended characters as in the Ethiopic iPhone in FIG 88. Moving the glyphs around is possible and the combination for the protected method and key assignments is very large. It is possible to line up the orders as QWERTY. AZERTY, DVORAC, ABCD, HLHM, ADGD, ABCD, ^^^^, ^^^^, etc and the claim covers all those and other potential methods.

43. ABSHA Ethiopic FIG 44. An example Amharic screen with many rows FIG 45. An example Ethiopic screen with many rows

FIG 46. New smartphone English “#-+” key The tables show the typing sequence examples and are neither exhaustive nor utilized at the same time, though they are part of the claim. Whatever is to be standardized on consensus would then follow other features such as physical key labels. Priority would be given to what Ethiopic needs and an example is where the default keys on smartphones could be Ethiopic ones in excess of 26 instead of necessarily the English 26. The keys could even be less than 26 by combining glyphs such as

and “^” to be generated from the same key. The smartphone keyboards are compatible with the computer keyboards with some exceptions. It also eliminates the need to depend on scooting through vowels while even adding more vowels or glyph keys above or below the last row and this is a new claim. FIG 34. With the desktop version the keyboard is expanded through unique programming and that is another claim. Another claimed novel idea is the “Active help” with new features. With the “Active help Enabled” the potential keystrokes that could be typed with a struck key show up on a movable frame on the screen. The glyphs used as vowels show up on the top line while the list of the glyphs show below as in FIG. 52. This help is a good assistant especially when learning the typing. The typing combinations listed depend on the lower and upper case of the default key as well as the symbol and numeric keys. An example is where striking the “s” key brings up the varieties for the

“^” series while shifted “S” recalls the ones under the shift or

ones. Some of these features are novel to EthioSuite. The parts released with GeezEdit were just the guides. However, the current one is an improvement claimed in EthioSuite separately showing the cases. FIG 70, 71. It is also possible to click on the glyphs to type them, FIG 71. The purpose of the active help is to eliminate typing of Amharic and Ethiopic by scooting through a list of potential vowel forms by others. Scooting though variety of glyphs is a waste of time defeating the purpose of typing each glyph and thus a backward method. Others have used this feature of clicking on an English vowels and Amharic orders to type the glyphs as a typing tool. The current method is helpful as the English vowels also show up and avoid misidentifying the glyphs.

FIG 46. New smartphone English “#-+” key FIG 47. New smartphone Ethiopic

key Another key that has been in use and reintroduced here is the “tab” key. The “tab” works as a novel separate vowel and shifted vowel key adding more power and claims to the Ethiopic writing system. The Ethiopic writing system in computers was based on the principle where the Ethiopic which is an expanded version of the Latin was mapped to its eight expanded forms. The Latin “abcd” (

is similar to the Ethiopic “abcd”

Another layout is Heleheme

the Ethiopic sorting order. The original layout the inventor first used in the 80’s was based on the Amharic typewriter as the inventor felt responsible to start with something in use rather than start from scratch. It was abandoned and replaced by the QWERTY at the request of the public. In the past the vowel keys were used as letters and vowels by the Ethiopic just like the Latin system. The Molla patented methods are efficient requiring less keyboards. With introduction of the current methods where they become dedicated vowels, more keystrokes and abbreviated keyboards were required. To make up for the inefficiency, it has become necessary to increase the keystrokes to three also because of the need to limit the typing around the “F” and “J” home keys. The current invention is another first method to type the complete Ethiopic in a virtual environment. A default of thirty keys along with a row of ten numerals is sufficient. If one is to imitate the Latin keyboard, a few more glyph or vowels can be added at the bottom and/or elsewhere as in FIGs 104-107. Of the thirty keys seven, “vuiaeo” and “period”) have been assigned to the seven orders

( ) and the sixth “ is default and also with its own key. The “tab” key has also been introduced for the ninth ( ) order though this is an option. This eliminates the need to depend on scooting method for typing. This does not mean that the current novel method does not include scooting, the appearance of the glyphs on the vowel keys, balloons and pop-ups as well highlighting the glyphs are excluded from the claims. It is also possible to render the

” Meen series from “4”, “8”, “left ctrl” and “right ctrl” keys. The greater than sign “>” has been selected as eighth vowel. Glyphs in excess have been assigned to the “O” typing, FIGs 90-94 and 95-99. The

key or “Meen/DN” is to represent typing of

from the “>” vowel as shown in FIG 94. The “DN” part is to represent that the “>” sign as a vowel is for those on excess of the “dn” typing that renders glyphs such as

Keys such as “DN” sre also shared by Meen glyphs such as and they are typed with capital “O” key as “dO” and “nO”. Startup is followed by the appearance of the default keys along with the “Globe”, Shift”, “tab”, “123” and “#-=” keys, Fig 10. The desktop or computer version is in FIG 9. The defaults that include the

are changed to their vowel forms with the seven vowels “vuiaeo.”. The number keys here as well as the shifted

“ vowel keys “VUIAEO.” type more glyphs. The shift key brings up the glyphs in the shifted positions, to be modified by the vowels depending on the need while presenting the shifted undedicated vowels

. The

“ can also be typed optionally by double striking the vowel keys, “vuiaeo”. The “tab” brings up the number keyboard to type each with a keystroke. The “123” button recall the symbols to be typed with one keystroke each. The “#=+” in the shifted position of the “123” key types the numbers “1234567890” and the symbols such as “-

The purpose of the “!@#” key is to replace the “-=+” key without forcing it out. It is a novel method to save an extra keystroke or key press. The “!@#/#-=” brings up the third tier glyphs to be modified by the vowels depending on need. The novel “#-=” is also introduced to the English keyboard to replace the “#=+” key to avoid an extra keystroke. Though a row of ten keys was utilized a row with more or less keys has not been ignored and thus claimed. As described in USA Patent number 10,133,362 the precursor of the Molla typing system is the typing of an Ethiopic glyph with one or shifted key. It does not matter whether the “Q” key was assigned to

, , , or any glyph. The patent was for the typing methods and not for the hundreds of the potential assignments. This claim is included in this application to discourage copycats and plagiarists. Even the keyboard layouts presented in this application are subject to modifications. What is important is the basic principle, though the majority of the users haven’t even read and understood what has been presented in the patents. In the mean time they have filled the internet with undocumented Ethiopic while some who haven’t produced a single Ethiopic typeface or app have been calling themselves Ethiopic legends without any challenge. The typing itself is controlled by a map editor with different features. For instance, the GeezEdit and EthioSuite has a common “Keymap Maintenance” app to control the thousands of the typing combinations to be presented with a different patent application. FIG 48.

FIG 48. The GeezEdit and EthioSuite Amharic Keymap Maintenance The key sequences have been shown in the tables and the figures with minor differences between the computer and the smartphone versions. In general, the command keys of the computer and those of the smartphones could occupy the bottom row. Modifications for the Hele keyboards are close to those of smartphones. The Hele

( ) layout includes a novel vowel assignment to the ten keys in the “z” row. In general, Ethiopic requires more vowel keys than conventional methods and the invention meets these requirements with numerous claims to list them all. The innovation is also helpful for other Unicode glyphs and opens up the regular English for other layouts too. Teaching materials for English typing can also be used for Ethiopic and a row with ten keys is satisfactory especially with the excellent phonetic nature of the Geez alphabet. The new “#-+” key is to avoid “123 shift”. Striking the “#-+” key on the default keyboard presents the shifted symbols. From there the user can go to the “123” or “ABC” page. The user can also type more than one glyph from this keyboard. The important point here is because this eliminates going through two keystrokes to get to the shifted symbols. This is because the user already knows default symbols present on the “123” keyboard. Thus, all one needs is to strike the “#-+” key to get to the symbols such as “[”, “]”, “{”, etc.” on the positions These inventions were improvements over the memory resident apps for computers and smartphones as well as the independent EthioSuite. The apps could use any typeface or modified for even non-Unicode glyphs. The layouts as well as the typing methods can be modified as necessary. The menu structures can be modified for use in different solitary Ethiopic-user language groups as well as the whole Ethiopic with over 500 glyphs. In those cases where the number of glyphs is in excess of the keys, the extended character spots can be used where the cent symbol was used for and this is another claim. Example layouts for smartphones and computers are not limiting. Continuation to No. 63/343,838 can be explained as follows. More glyphs were assigned to function as vowels and the positions moved around such that the following are examples.

are independent and dedicated.

double stroke are independent and dedicated.

, , , , , are shifted or independent and dedicated. “1”, “2”, “3”, “4”, “5”, “6”, “7”, “8”, “9” and “0” were independent and dedicated vowels too. A method whereby the 26 keys assigned to the “A” to “z” keys are assigned to handle the Amharic and Ethiopic with a maximum of three keystrokes each for typing and settling them in claimed. The use of the “Active help” to show the combination sequences on the screen to make typing easy by showing the glyphs and combination keystrokes. The method is compatible and similar across operating systems such as computer keyboard and those of smartphones and the like. The method could use more keys and keystrokes and such options are not excluded from the claim. A method whereby “sV” types

avoiding more rows. The

” can be typed with “s>” or even with “tab tab s” while

can be typed with “z>”. The numbers can be typed from the qwerty row by long hold. The novel Ethiopic 0 to 9 can also be typed with the shifted “tab” and the qwerty row while the QWERTY with shifted “tab” can optionally type the Ethiopic 1 to 0 numerals. The “A” row can repeat the 20 to 100 Ethiopic while 10,000 can be typed with “;”. The combination from three keystrokes is high enough to handle Ethiopic writing system. Neither the omission nor the non-us of more keystrokes, rows or columns should be construed as exclusion from the claim. There is no need to use the numeric row and Amharic can be typed from the 26 English alphabet keys with 3 keystrokes maximum. It is possible for the “V” key to double for the

and “^” series leaving the “X” key for other purposes. The defaults can also be typed with command keys. (“vv” types “

^” while “vV” types “^”. “va” or “av” types “^” as an example while “Va” or “aV” types

“ ” “ ” can be typed with “x” while

“^” can be documented with “X” and the series can be typed some other ways. The “v” key is the vowel for first order characters and has to be avoided.” “Vv” can types

“ ” while “xV”, “Xv” or “>v” can types “^” and “V.” can type

“^” “Va” can type

etc. in Amharic and Tigrigna dedicated keyboards. The point here is to show the extensive possibilities and the need to refrain varieties as something novel. Reverse typing is discouraged and some can be typed many ways. The “qv”, “qV” “Qv” and “Q1” typing of

” respectively is standardized while “QV” for

is discouraged because it takes four keystrokes. Still the use of the “x” and “X” for the

and “^” series is preferred. “x.” types

while “X.” can type the eighth form of

though it is not even included in Unicode and some of these can be modified in the future or typed with “0”.

can also be typed with the “mrf” capitals, “>” or zero. It is also possible to change the typing as the character sets are increased though this is not recommended. The “Q1” like of typing the Tigrigna language should be maintained in the Ethiopic typing system and language specific separate typing is discouraged. The “>” typing also adds a layer to type and can be used for the Meen language scripts. It is possible to take the three keystroke methods to higher levels too. “tab Q” typing could render “1” eliminating the need for the number row. The other rows can expand to the ten to accommodate more glyphs in computer and smartphone keyboards. The default Ethiopic sixth order is similar to the Latin sound system. The shifted glyphs in Latin represent the capital letters and these do not have to be followed for Ethiopic. The Ethiopic first order glyphs are not the same with the English capital letters in terms of sounds generated. Assigning the first order Amharic or Ethiopic to the default adds unnecessary keystrokes as the most commonly written Amharic are those of the sixth order glyphs. The Ethiopic first order is just another order with its own syllabic values in both the Heleheme and Ebegede

columns. Another new feature is even adding a shift to the

key. This novel system eliminates scooting as glyphs under the shift can’t be typed. Example

The glyphs can be picked through the keys manually or the mouse click. The keyboard can accommodate the typing of Ethiopic without the numeral keys. For instance, the four “z” varieties can be typed from the “z” key and the “ctrl” or any command key can be utilized for the excess defaults. In the virtual keys this can be accomplished from the default position of the key and the vowels or more glyphs with default

and shifted vowels. There are more possibilities by moving to four keystrokes and that is not recommended, though that does not mean those are excluded from the claims. It is possible to use ten keys per row in the non-default virtual keyboards. An example is the “Z to ?” keys for the Ethiopic numbers “1” to “0” with the “tab” or command keys as well as the rows above it. The Ethiopic working numerals can also be mapped to the number keys in the

layout. Another new claim is the “active help” that shows up with the combination keys in GeezEdit and EthioSuite because it follows the various layouts. Doubling the use of the “V” key for the “a” series the “x” key can be left alone for use as “x” types the default “ ” The configuration can be simplified if the keyboard is made for Amharic only. For instance, “Q” can type and this is not recommended as it forces the

to be typed with four keystrokes. Once “q” typing was given to

” and “Q” to

”, then

is typed with “qA”. The reasonable method for “ ” is “Q1” while “Q1” is also for

“ ” and one has to be standardized. There are numerous typing methods that look reasonable such as “aa”, “av” or “va” tying of

“ ” and “aA”, “aV” or “Va” typing of “^” and so on. Unfortunately, most of these interfere with established rules here and are not recom

mended within the selected standard. Another claim is where more than one typing method and layout can be typed in one or more apps. For instance, EthioSuite can have the Molla layout in the default method and the ABSHA one in the “Short” keyboard. The GeezEdit which also has the two keyboard layouts can in turn be utilized with its layouts in EthioSuite by two methods and this approach of using four systems is another claim. The major purpose of the current invention is to show the variety of available methods and neither the change in direction, moving the glyphs around or minor changes should be considered novel. Keys with Ethiopic and English characters would make typing easy and this is another claim that goes with the novelty though the guides are helpful. In the smartphone system the fourth third tier defaults can be rendered with the new

key. The “ ” is to recall glyphs such as

so that the vowel varieties are typed with the key (“z”) and then the vowels. This is optional as the glyphs can also be typed from keys such as “j” as third tier. In the desktop version, these can be typed with keys such as period and slash for fourth and fifth tiers. Example: “period” “z” “a” to type “ ”. Glyphs in excess on keys such as “q”, “g” and “k” can be typed with the slash as in “/” “k” “a” for “ ” Active help to guide with typing in EthioSuite from previous methods but novel here to discourage scooting by allowing typing with clicks too. Doubled 9^th order could use “W” as second keystroke instead of “tab” or “tab tab”. Example “dO” for and “dW” for

A method is whereby “sV” types

avoiding more rows. The

is typed with “tab tab s” while

is types with “tab tab z”. Another purpose here is to type third or fourth tier glyph orders with shifted vowels. Different methods are presented as options and do not have to be utilized at the same time and mentioned to cover methods often picked as something novel. The new Extended-B Ethiopic or Guragie glyphs can be typed by lining them up where appropriate. The fourth “h” or

“À” series can be typed from the numbers. Th rest such as can be distributed as usual in the open positions in their series.

In general, Ethiopic computerization has been achieved and describes since the 80’s using ModEth, EthioWord, GeezEdit and now EthioSuite. The current invention is based on earlier patented methods and novel additions. As shown in the various examples, the key assignments can be moved around to achieve the most efficient typing methods. Even the vowel keys that doubled as vowels and letter keys have maintained the functions by assigning the letter functions to the shifted positions. The “o” key has remained as dedicated vowel while the shifted position was reassigned to other glyphs and spread out on more keys. A new claim is the use of these methods with the glyphs showing up on the keys. In smartphones and virtual keyboards, the number keys can be numbers, vowels and/or dead keys in different layouts. For instance, the default types

“ ” with “z” key while

“ ” can be typed with “Z” and the vowels. If the numbers are used, the shift key is available to type

with “z” and shifted vowels or “Z” and “6” while

is typed with “z” and “6”. In the desktop version “>” is available to type such sixth order glyphs if necessary, as in the typing of

with “z>”. In general, the current invention shows the numerous ways of typing a glyph and there is no need to use multiple keystrokes. For instance, the second slash along with the numbers can type the “ ” series with command keys such as “alt”.

Apps such as GeezEdit for iPhone and android can access the computer versions while EthioSuite allows typing of the pervious patented methods. All one has to do is strike “F4” to activate the English. By default, the EthioSuite works with the methods described in this patent application. On- screen keyboard works with the keyboards as well as the mouse and by touching the screen. This method is good as Ethiopic touch screen in banks.

FIG 49. Ethiopic Molla system On-Screen keyboard in EthioSuite The method could utilize methods described earlier such as long hold, timeout as well as settling popup lists at zero time with or without the glyphs. “l” with the “Q” row types 10 symbols if necessary and moving the characters around and adding more keystrokes should not be considered novel. This is because additional typing sequences are available and only the major varieties are tabulated. Thus, the tables are part of the claims, but not exhaustive or to be utilized at the same time. Examples of not shown are “ctrl q” for

and other combinations with command keys. The development of the Molla system can be described as follows. As shown above there is a difference the way Ethiopic can be rendered in computers and smartphones. It should be understood that the keyboarding is described in only two ways to accommodate different layouts such as AZERTY, Heleheme etc. and different operating systems and modifications are not novel. Ethiopic can be typed from the 26 Latin keys and thus more or less key assignments should not be considered novel either. To align the methods, both need the 26 alphabets and the number keys and their shifted positions. Of the 26 default keys eight are vowels leaving the 18 to share the Ethiopic 37 consonants in the shifted positions. Examples will be given for the QWERTY layout that applies to others with exceptions that would be handled accordingly. If typing the

with “q” and

with “Q” is ideal for Amharic that is not for Ethiopic. The Molla system was created so that the keys are progressively added on the Amharic to accommodate Ethiopic. As a result, the “Q” typing position is given to the Tigrigna

and the Geez language and Amharic

“ ” is typed with

“q ” The need for three keystrokes is because many complain that the Ethiopic be typed as English from a similar small keyboard. This is possible and Amharic can be typed with the default and shifted consonants and shifted vowels with some exceptions such as typing the

group with the command keys. An example is “tab tab y” to type An option is “ ” “ ” “ ”

The key assignment for the Ethiopic requires accommodation of the excess Amharic as well as the digits and the symbols. Apart from the alphabetic keys, Amharic thus requires the number keys be added as a set of vowels. Ethiopic needs two sets of numeric vowels. All current attempts by copycats are incomplete methods. “qu” types “^” while “q6” types

. “Shift q” type

while “shift q6” types

from the same shifted keyboard. Another layer of numbers can be made to act as shifted numbers and used to type with “q6”. Another example is to type

with “z” and

“ ” with “shift z” while

can be typed “z6” types and “shift z6 types

from the same shifted keyboard. These are three keystrokes maximum. Assigning the

series to the “G” key has the same issues as those of

” and the shifted position

s a spare. The number keys are dead but they can type them by double striking. A better option is to focus on the alphabetic and numeric vowels and move to the “!@#” key to type more glyphs particularly the ones left out. The novel “!@#” key can also be given another name and also have its own shifted “#-+” key. This will bring the fifth layout with just a strike to type the

type glyphs in various ways. In the Molla system the “123” key will also have anywhere from the regular numeric page to those similar to others with many layers. Due to the efficiency of the ABSHA system, the Amharic was presented from two screens (FIG 49) and the numbers and symbols from the second (FIG 50). The current method needed more keys specially for Ethiopic. FIGs 7688. The shifted “#+=” key of the “123” keys as well as the “#-+” of the “!@#” are available to handle more than usual on top of the “tab” key. The “tab” key is thus optional in the Molla system. Further example details are as follows. It is also possible to increase the numbers of keys to accommodate the Ethiopic 37 defaults. These then can be typed with a maximum of two keystrokes each just like the ModEth system from the 80’s. With the shifted position given to the less used orders, the vowels can be presented to type with the ten vowel keys or reduced to five while the sixth is given to the numbers and the symbols. With the default and their shifted form use on the vowels Ethiopic can’t be typed from one set of the current default, its shift, the “123/#=+” keys. The current invention is a panacea in two ways. One is addition of the number and their shifted positions keys as vowels and this is enough for Amharic. Amharic can be typed with the four vowels and the”123/#=+”. Ethiopic needs a second default and shifted consonants and second vowels and number keys along with their shifts. This adds the remaining four vowels. The “123” key can bring up the four rows and these eight are enough as they are needed for Amharic and Geez with the exception of the

“ ” rows for Ethiopic. The other four rows come from the second shift keyboard or the “!@#/#-+”. It is possible to use the “tab” key alone. The point here is to show the configurations by examples as the options are many. For instance, there is no need to type a glyph with four keystrokes. There is no need to use the shifted form of any of the vowels such as “AEIOU” in computers and smartphones as it interferes with the use of the shifted form of the seven vowels. In the past those who were using typing methods such as Keyman never settled the default and were telling people to add space after some vowels. Agerigna’s smartphone had a similar problem until the default was settled at zero time as described in US Patent number 10,133,362 and Ethiopian patent 123 at zero time. Similarly, the typing of the glyphs at zero time was as described in the patent while settling glyphs such as “^” that required a space in the computer needed a shift in smartphones by others. The major problem is also because of shortage of vowels. The layout for the Heleheme also requires the availability of eight sets of vowels if the number of keys particularly the rows or columns of the keyboards are limited. Current solutions are as in FIG 51. FIG 51. Heleheme layout FIG – above is an example of a computer and smartphone layouts for a keyboard with 10 columns rows and six rows. There is no need to present the various layouts as the principles are the same as described for QWERTY. It should be understood that neither reducing nor adding rows columns and the like should be considered novel. For instance, additional vowels could be added on top or below the regular keyboard with consideration given to spaces for word predictions and the like. The current invention solves the basic requirements of documentation so that attempted methods can now be incorporated. It should also be remembered that copycats and plagiarists have presented erroneous and incomplete materials over the years that in turn have been used to justify studies and are thus unreliable. One important feature in the GeezEdit and EthioSuite is the Active Help as shown in FIG 52. FIG 52. EthioSuite Active Help Enabled When a default or a shifted glyph is struck, all the potential vowel forms of the order show up on a line while the outcome glyph shows up on the other. The purpose is to guide the user about the combination key sequences to type the glyphs. An example is where “f” followed by “e” is to type “ ” The feature is optional and has to be “Enabled” when needed. The Active help guide can be moved anywhere on the screen. A similar feature is a picture of the layout maps. FIG 69 is for smaller character sets such as Geez language and Amharic. FIG 70 shows the picture of the two layouts simultaneously and it is for Ethiopic typing. The purpose of the active help screen is to teach typing as keyboarding is to document without seeing the keyboard or the help screen that detracts the typist. Because of the large number of the Ethiopic glyphs there are people who document the script with a modified version of a scooting method where the English accented vowels are typed. While the approach may be tolerable where accented vowels are rear in English, Ethiopic can’t depend on scooting. In other modifications the glyphs to be scooted to are presented in a circle still requiring holding down the curser until the choice is reached and the curser released. In the Molla system every glyph is typed by striking or pressing the key. The Active Help can also be used for typing by clicking on the particular glyph in the row. On-screen keyboarding of the Ethiopic makes the typing uniform and powerful. With practice an Ethiopic typist can type as fast as an English one, though the systems can’t be compared due to numerous differences. The point here is that the more than 500 Ethiopic glyphs are typed on an abbreviated keyboard with one to three keystrokes each. This is about five times that of English in numbers. The system can even be made powerful by adding overlays as in ModEth or using dedicated Ethiopic labelled keys. These will be made bi-lingual as in the current methods. A completely Ethiopic system is not an advantage as it is not cost effective even as we build Ethiopic operating system without supporting at least English. Last but not least the hardware keys can be given Amharic names particularly for computers, laptops and similar gadgets while the features English currently uses can be applied to Ethiopic-user languages. The 13 language character sets can be given their own sets. Ethiopic as a menu choice is to type the whole system. The system was built such that an Amharic character set typing won’t interfere with any other set including Ethiopic. The current character subject to modification are Agew/Bilen, Amharic, Basketo, Bench, Dawro, Gamu-Gofa, Geez, Gumuz, Guragie, Meen, Oromo, Tigre and Tigrigna. Double tapping of the “tab” key is another novel feature different from the above two. This is because of the second keystroke of the “tab”. This theoretically gives another thirty glyphs to type. One possible use of this keyboarding is to utilize it as a ninth vowel documentation method. An example is where “tab tab d” types

Unfortunately, this is good only for the default keys and others such as have to be typed differently as in “dO”. It should be understood that the system was built to type with a maximum of three keystrokes and more are not excluded from the claims. This issue arose because keys such as “D” share the

glyphs. The novelty may superimpose previous patented methods and well as known features such as balloons, long hold, highlight or show the glyphs on the vowels or elsewhere. Another method is whereby the GeezEdit for Windows work in Amharic at Geezedit.com while it also works in EthioSuite. The use of typing a glyph in more than one method as well different layouts are introduced. More than one method of typing to type and render a glyph. Example.

“ ” can be typed with “y1” or “Yv”. The claim includes the typing of the new Ethiopic Extended-B glyphs such as

1EfE5 glyph with “y6”. This thus forces the use of keys such as “yV” as options and examples are in the Tables. The extra current novelty has the following features. In the current invention the “tab” key kept its previous features and new ones were introduced such that striking a “tab” key as second keystroke to generate glyphs was eliminated. This is not because of any problem other than consideration of the compatibilities of the typing methods between the assignments. To show this problem by examples if striking, say the number “1” key is to generate

“ ”, it is important that both “tab 1 and “1 tab” generate a glyph from the two keystrokes and the steps completed. This is because the “tab” key has some other functions and the steps have to be terminated after the keystrokes. “1 tab q” generates “ ” because the default assignment of “q” is

“tab 1” also generates

“ ” for the sake of avoiding confusion while “tab q” generate only

It is also possible to generate a different glyph from “q tab” though that is not recommended because it interferes with

typing by “q”. It is thus important that the “tab” be used only as first key only. This theoretically gives more than eighty Ethiopic glyphs to be typed with the default and their shifted positions. The shifted “tab” typing with the default position of the glyphs were standardized as the shifted glyphs would have made it four keystrokes. This does not mean the “tab” key is useless. In fact, the “tab” English function was inactivated for the system to work. The shifted “tab” key or the depressed tab (

tab”) key generates a different glyph as opposed to the non-depressed ones (“tab”) used just by striking it. This is one of the important new features of the invention. The depressed “tab’ key generates “1” when it is followed by the “1” key. It is because “1” can be typed this way that the default “1” key can be assigned to

or “1”, though the best method is not to assign any glyph to the numbers. Thus the number keys are dead. Another example is where depressed “tab” keys followed by “q” generate “^”. The Ethiopic alphabetic Unicode numbers

“ Ŵ Ŷ ŸŹ ” are typed with depressed “tab” key followed by the “QWERTYUIOP” keys. Other examples are the glyphs generated this way with the “A” and “Z” rows as shown in FIG 18. More examples are in FIGs 32, 82, 84, 87, and 102. Double tapping of the “tab” key is another novel feature different from the above two. This is because of different programming of the second keystroke of the “tab”. This theoretically gives another thirty glyphs to type. One possible use of this keyboarding is to utilize it as a ninth vowel documentation method. An example is where “tab tab d” types

Unfortunately, this is good only for the default keys and others such as

have to be typed differently as in “dO”. It should be understood that the system was built to type with a maximum of three keystrokes and more are not excluded from the claims. The striking of “q1” generate

or another key as before. This feature is now discouraged as it does not depend on timeout. That typing has been assigned to

, as an example, for the sake of maintaining compatibility among all Ethiopic glyphs. Because the

series are Guragie and not Amharic, that typing sequence is left for that language and not utilized by others such as Amharic. Amharic would use the default or the programmed sequences rather than disabling the sequence as an option. In Amharic and Geez language sets “q1” would type “

while it types

in Guragie and Ethiopic. The “q1” types

because “1” is a dead key in the Molla system. If necessary, the

can also be typed with “ctrl q 1”. This feature allows the typing of

with “ctrl k 1” and “right ctrl k l” and this is not encouraged to avoid confusion. The best approach is to make the number keys dedicated vowels too and not assign any glyphs there. The current system has novelty in that the number of keystrokes per glyph has been increased to three and this is a new claim. This is because others have been plagiarizing the inventers methods and assigned the shifted spots of some glyph with the lame excuse of typing Ethiopic with keys around the home “F” and “J” keys and with transliteration. The typing of Ethiopic glyphs with one and two keystrokes and settling them is an additional new claim within the novel system. An example is “shift /” to render

should not type because of interference with the “period” key and the pattern is not conforming. Also ? could have typed the eighth form of “

if it were there. Typing of with “/6” is appropriate. The typing is such

that the shift is held down while the period is depressed and both keys are released followed by the

to type the and this is another novelty. The “period” key was also added as a new eighth vowel in the novel system. This is because utilizing the shifted keys allowed the availability of more than sixty keys. The period key just like the other seven “ ” glyphs is typed with a keystroke to generate the eighth form

by default. “Period” types and it can also be typed with “x.” or “4.” and even “v.”. 1. Another novelty is the programmed use of the command keys, arrows and the glyphs on the numeric pad to type hundreds of Ethiopic glyphs. One example is to type the 10 symbols on the number keys with period as second keys. Examples: 1234567890 for

respectively on varieties of keyboards. Similarly, “period b” can type

“ ” though this is not recommended because of interference with

typing. An option to avoid this problem is not to make the “period” key dedicated to type the

vowel. Another claim is to make the “period” key dead and type

” with “b period” (eighth order) and

“ ” (ninth order) with “period b”. Assignment of the “period” key to is preferred.

2. A glyph created with one or two keystrokes is settled by including a second settling non- printable glyph such as 11743 optionally. This is an example of other claimed processes or activities not used before. 3. Unlike the computer keyboard it might be better to open up different virtual keyboards through the “shift”, “tab”, “123” “#=+”, “#-+and “#-=” keys. The shift presents the shifted glyphs such as under “shift a” optionally (Fig ). The “tab” recalls some forty numerals (Fig ), the “123” brings up the English symbols (Fig ), the “#=+” is for the forty Ethiopic symbols and the “#-+” is for the third tier glyphs such as (Fig ).

4. The novelty may superimpose previous patented methods and well as known features such as balloons, long hold, highlight or show the glyphs on the vowels or elsewhere. 5. The novelty includes dedicated EthioSuite Ethiopic publisher with features such as dictionary, spell checker, building word list in different Ethiopic languages, indexing etc. (FIG 109. 6. Extended ASCII characters can be associated to present Ethiopic in virtual keyboards keys as in coding “¡” for

FIG 47, 43. In computer keyboards second

“ ” can add more access. FIG 21, 63. By agreement and based on logic, this can be modified. 7. Reverse typing is possible though that is avoided to make typing simple and due to interference. Example:

“ ” can type

“ ” and

“ ” “ ”. Typing “M” after the “a” makes it difficult to type

“ ” with “a” and “ ” with “M”; but not with “xa”.

8. The use of typing a glyph in more than one method as well different layouts are introduced. A glyph can be rendered in more than one method from the same keyboard layout. Example: can be typed with “Yv” or “yV” leaving “y1” to

“yv” types

, while “Yv” types

“ ” and “yV” typing of “^” is standardized leaving “y1” free for typing one of the Ethiopic symbol rows. Another example is “Xv or “xV” typing of “^” and the series continues as dedicated “^” series typing. 9. A method of typing each key assigned as a vowel with a keystroke each. This is a downgrade from previous methods where the vowel keys doubled as letter and vowels just as the Latin writing system. 10. The novel invention includes methods whereby default and shifted glyphs uses glyphs such “vuiaeo.” for vowels, the third tier glyphs use 123456, etc, or 890-=. Extension glyphs such as “ are typed with “qV” or numeric pad

can be typed with “q3” or numeric pad “ *” 11. There are numerous other methods. For instance, the second slash along with the numbers can type the

series. “Od” can type provided that typing does not interfere with any other typing and follows the pattern. This is not acceptable within the standardized method. 12. Typing an “a” key once or twice produces an

is an option. 13. It is possible to assign the number keys to the

series and such assignments are avoided due to interference and should not be used as novel as other options could alternatively replace them. 14. Virtual layouts with 10 or 11 keys in a row are compatible with the computer keys. Rows and columns can be changed while more or less are not excluded. More rows can be accommodated in landscape but not in portrait orientation in current smartphones. Key numbers can change with orientation 15. The command keys can be used as first, second or third keys to generate more glyphs. 16. Programing includes incorporation or removal of the English part of the encoding. Yet it allows typing English from the same keyboard. The Ethiopic system is switched to the Latin with a keystroke or two and vice versa. 17. “R0” or “r)” could type the “period” or

and the combinations are many and minor modifications should not be considered novel. 18. A method whereby programming to render glyphs with or without timeout is mixed. It is possible to settle glyphs with secondary steps that vary from adding a space to typing the following glyph as well as even saving a document. Another is adding a non-printable code in the sequence map. 19. The Ethiopic numbers 1234567890 come from the second typeface and this is another novelty of typing two numeric systems from the same layout. This feature also allows Ethiopic to share symbols such as Latin copyright with Ethiopic copyright from the same key of the extended ASCII. 20. One or more Amharic typewriter glyphs and similar pieces are ligated to look like the Amharic script while being settled. The method can accommodate ligation though the inventor does not encourage this obsolete method. 21. There are times when four keystrokes per glyph are possible though these are avoided, though included in the claim. 22. The use of the active help to show the combination sequences and even type by striking them on the screen to make typing simple by showing the glyphs and combination keystrokes. The shifted ones appear separately while the default include the ones under the numbers. This feature is to discourage scooting that wastes time as the purpose of writing is not to hunt for characters. This is because Ethiopic can be typed in numerous apps such as Word, Google search, EthioSuite with three keystrokes and less with apps such as GeezEdit. 23. It is possible to use the “V” and the “X” keys double for the

“ ” and

series leaving the “X” key for other purposes. This is discouraged to avoid confusion. 10. Default glyphs are also

, and

for the three rows. Shifted default are also

More glyphs are typed with the numbers as second key. In smartphones the approach is a little different. The default 26, but preferably 30 keys type the default

and “qu”, “qi” type The ten digits type glyphs such as

with “q6” with the second keystroke each. The shift key brings up the

and these are typed with a keystroke each. From here the numbers type glyphs such as

” with the third keystrokes. The novel “#-+” brings the glyphs that are typed with “123” key such as “-/:”. From here they type other symbols with the numbers as second keystrokes. Because the “#-+” does not render glyphs that appear as the regular default, they are typed by second keystrokes. The “tab”, “123” and “#-+” can perform the same way presenting the Ethiopic numbers and symbols. FIG 1-6, 73. 24. The assignment of the keys can be moved around for good reasons. More important than historical use is the potential ease for associating the glyphs to similar Amharic and Ethiopic keys. For instance, the current invention allows type typing of five glyph types from a default key such as the Ethiopic “G” while the “K” key can’t accommodate the

and needs the help from adjacent keys such as “J” or “L”. FIG 63, 68. Those that forces four keystroke usage such as “K!” are unacceptable within the chosen syatem. 25. Additional claims are the use of more keyboard popping up with additional keys. The keys could be at the top or below the regular spots as at the bottom or could share the space bar. 26. Some glyphs that are assigned to the shifted positions are typed with the eight vowels while their extended five forms are typed with the default and “VIAEU”. Numbers type a large number of the glyphs. FIG 68 is Ethiopic Unicode plus the inventor’s Ethiopic numerals. Almost all the typing sequences have been tabulated in the Amharic and Ethiopic typing Tables. 27. The extra 3^rd positions can be used to type numerous varieties of symbols. Examples:

“j” type “!” while “l7” and “l0” types the inventor’s Ethiopic stress and stretch marks. FIG 4, 5. 72, 73 and these are the same for computers and smartphones. 28. The Amharic keyboarding can be applied to the Ethiopic by just adding more sequences. Example: “z6” types

” while “Z6” types

” or switched around to type the other one. 29. Shifted default are also

. It is also possible to assign the shifted “m”, and

” positions to

The “VUIAEXO” positions can also be assigned to the

“^” “^” “^” “^” “^” “^” d “^” or other glyphs. 30. Some shifted defaults with vowels type second tier glyphs. Example: “q” followed by “VIAEU” type

31. Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 are typed with the number keys from the “123” key, by long hold of the “Q” row glyphs. 32. The Amharic keyboarding can be applied to the Ethiopic by just adding the

key. This key brings up the third tier list glyphs in its default position and fourth tier glyphs in the shifted position or under the numbers. Example: the

” key followed by “z1” could type . This shifted “#=+” key brings up the fourth tier list glyphs in the shifted position. Example: “#=+” key followed by “z” and then by “6” types

can also be replaced double striking the “tab” and “shift” keys though this is claimed but not used because it is a four-keystroke system. 33. Examples:

with “q”, ” with “q6”, “

” with

q , with “Q”,

” with

with “t0” (or “t7”) and

with or “T7” (or “T7”). Also “1” with “1231” (or with “tab 1” and “1” with “z”. Similarly, g types ^ and g6 types ^ from the default while the shift brings up the new shift key and touching the “g” showing the

and the vowels type the Agew/Bilen series. String “6” instead of the vowels reveals

The next move is to the

” key where the is typed by “g” and the Guragie series by the vowels. The solitary

“ ” Meen glyph can be typed with “6” to keep the pattern. 34. The simplicity of typing Amharic and learning to type it is simple as shown in FIG 4. Under KEYS the numbers 1 and 10 are to show that the numbers are typed as from the “tb” and the “X” key. The 2^nd row is to show that the Ethiopic symbols along with a period are typed with shifted number keys. Similarly, the first of the ten varieties under the

key in FIG 5 are on the number keys in FIG 4 to show their association with the keyboard keys. The exclamation mark on the “J” key is to show that the ten Latin symbols typed with shifted numbers from an English keyboard has long been Ethiopianized by the inventor and can be typed with “j” and the numbers. An Ethiopic key could have the

“ ” “ ” and the “J” labels to make it Ethiopic. 35. The Ethiopic writing system has about 13 character sets. Each can be accessed from a language menu or as shown in FIG 45. A Tigrigna language user just selects that language and use all the features associated with without interference by other sets. 36. Last but not least all Ethiopic users have to start respecting intellectual rights and scientifically build it. The Amharic typewriter glyphs distributed on a single ASCII character set are not Ethiopic, FIG . Amharic Typing Table

are the Exteded – B Ethiopic typed with the system. or “caps lock” is for code 8682.

FIG 54. MegaWriter in 1983 FIG 55. One of the ModEth Ethiopic Keyboard Layouts

FIG 56. Keyman does not write some glyphs

PDF Typing table Continuation. No. 63/343,838 The glyphs will show up optionally on the vowels including on the number rows. The ABSHA Ethiopic writing system has a large number of users who are used to the keyboard. The computer keyboard can handle those and one can run it separately or within EthioSuite. The virtual keyboards like smartphones are not the same with those of the static computer keyboard because of the screen sizes. As a result, modifications are necessary are necessary. The virtual Ethiopic Molla writing system has the following features. 1234567890

Default Amharic with vowelled numbers. Method 1 (Note that

is typed with q6 and “ with “y6”.

Default Amharic optional Method 2. Note that

is typed with “q” (and

with “y” and

” with “Ethiopic #-+”). The vowel numbers are excluded.

The shifted Amharic. Method 1 where shows up tapping the “Q” key

is typed with “q” and with

“y” and with “y6” “Ethiopic #-+”). The vowel numbers are excluded.

The shifted Amharic. Method 2. Note tha is typed with “q” and

with “y”. and with “y6”.

is

typed from “Ethiopic #-+” with “y”.

Amharic “123” or optional “tab”

Note that Amharic “#+=” types more glyphs with numbers, though this can be typed with another layer of numbers from the “123” key. It may be better if “123” is left alone in Amharic and English and just move the “#+=” part to the new “Ethiopic #-+”.

On the Ethiopic shift appears on the “q” key while can be typed with “q6” while an use the

“Ethiopic key. Ethiopic Shift

Ethiopic “#-+”

FIG 58. Ethiopic 26 FIG 59. Amharic 30 FIG 60. Ethiopic 30 FIG 61. Ethiopic 26 Fig 62. This computer keyboard can be similarly simulated in smartphones

FIG 63. This computer keyboard can be similarly simulated in smartphones as shifted mapping. The “^” series could be typed by double striking the vowels. FIG 64. Amharic 30

Figure 65. Keytstroke examples FIG 66. Shifted Amharic with “v” for more vowels and to type with less or more 26 alphabet keys FIG 67. Ethiopic Hele Example, numbers and “xcvbnm,./” are double vowels FIG 68. The “K” key

FIG 69. Unicode Ethiopic 2022

FIG 70. GeezEdit ABSHA in ABSHA system FIG 71. GeezEdit ABSHA in ABSHA system Ethiopic keyboard and Active help

FIG 72. Molla system EthioSuite Active Help Enabled Additional claims are the use of more keyboard popping up with additional keys. The keys could be below the regular spots as at the bottom or could share the space bar. The Ethiopic might need only one additional key,

though it might as well have “+-=” key too. “V” in the shifted Amharic keyboard figure is show that they can replace the vowels in the standard position so that Ethiopic is typed with less than 26 alphabetic keys. The Ethiopic symbols ca be typed with “x” or “X” and numbers.

FIG 95. GeezEdit On-Screen keyboard FIG 96. ABSHA to modify to Molla system FIG 97. The 100 Ethiopic symbols and digits

Claims

CLAIMS:

1. An Ethiopic typing method whereby some keys in computers and the like are designated dead and do not type anything on striking them.

Whereby keys such as “1”. “2”, etc. do not type anything

Whereby keys such as “!”,

etc. do not type anything optionally.

Whereby keys such as “a”, “e”, etc. do not optionally type anything due to second keystrokes.

Whereby keys such as “w”, “j”, etc. do not type anything when shifted or type the default glyphs such as

etc. unless optionally programmed to render symbols and the like.

Whereby keys such as

etc. may not type anything because they are unassigned to type Ethiopic or just type the English.

2. An Ethiopic typing method whereby some keys in computers and the like type and settle a glyph with one keystroke each.

Whereby the

etc. are typed from a default computer layout with a “q”, “w”, “z”, etc. keystroke each by default.

Whereby glyphs such as

etc. are typed with “a”, “u”, “i”, etc. with a keystroke each by default and they are dedicated vowels.

Whereby Ethiopic working numerals such as “1”, “2”, etc. are typed with “1”, “2”, etc. with a keystroke each by default from the numeric keypad.

Whereby any Ethiopic glyph such as can

etc. are typed with numeric pad

etc. symbols.

Whereby command keys such as “ctrl”, “arrows” type a glyph each”.

3- An Ethiopic typing method in computers and the like whereby some glyphs are typed in a novel method in computers with two keystrokes each,

Whereby the number keys “1”, “2”, etc. are dead though they can optionally type a glyph each when preceded by a key. Example “ql” types

Whereby the number keys “1”, “2”, etc. are dead and type another glyph following the depressed “tab” and this novelty added a keyboard. Example depressed “tab” “1” types “1”.

Whereby keys such as “T”, “P”, etc. type those such as

etc. with the shifted form of the default.

Whereby keys such as “R”, etc. type those such as etc. with defaults such as “R”, etc. and numbers with two keystrokes each.

Whereby keys such as depressed “tab” type followed by “1”, “2”, etc. type “1”, “2”, etc. with two keystrokes each.

Whereby keys such as depressed “tab” followed by “q”, “a”, etc. type etc. with two

keystrokes each.

Whereby keys such as

etc. or shifted numbers type

etc. with shifted numbers or two keystrokes each. Whereby keys such as “Ctrl”, etc. with numbers such as “1”, “2”, etc. type “1”, “2”, etc. with two keystrokes.

Whereby any Ethiopic glyph such as can

etc. are typed with numeric pad

etc. symbols.

Whereby glyphs such as

( etc. are typed with “j” and “1”, “2” etc. with two keystrokes.

4. An Ethiopic typing method in computers and the like whereby some glyphs are typed in a novel method with three keystrokes each

Whereby those such as “qA”, “Y4”, etc. type glyphs such as

, etc. with three keystrokes.

Whereby keys such as “d>”, “dO”, etc. type glyphs such as

etc. with three keystrokes.

Whereby “tab tab d” types

through programming though the “d” key is not dead as the numbers. The final version will be determined optionally by consensus.

Whereby “ctrl q 1” types

as an optional method.

Whereby depressed “tab” and “1”, “q”, “z” type “1”

” and “1” respectively.

5- An Ethiopic typing method in computers and the like whereby some glyphs are typed in a novel method with four keystrokes each.

Whereby those such as

are typed with “QA” “YA” and discouraged because they are four keystrokes

6. An Ethiopic smartphone and the like gadgets type in abbreviated or non-abbreviated virtual environment in variety of ways where no glyph is typed with a keystroke each, whereby no glyph is typed with a keystroke each as typing “1”, “2”, etc. keystroke each because they have assigned to be dead. whereby no glyph was typed with a “tab” and another key as in “tab 1” because they were disabled.

Whereby striking the “!@#/123” or the right “123/#=+” do not type anything,

7- An Ethiopic smartphone and the like gadgets type in abbreviated or non-abbreviated virtual environment whereby one keystroke types Ethiopic

Whereby glyph distributed as defaults on (<26 and >37) 26, 37 keys or four rows of 10 are typed with a single touch as in “q” for “

Whereby glyphs distributed as Ethiopic eight vowels with a single touch type a glyph each as • in

8. An Ethiopic smartphone and the like gadgets type in abbreviated or non-abbreviated virtual environment whereby two keystrokes type a glyph.

Whereby a default glyph followed by a vowel type a glyph with two strokes such as documenting

with “qa” with the regular vowel keys.

Whereby a default glyph followed by a number type a glyph with two strokes such as documenting, with “q6” because the numbers are novel vowels. Whereby a novel “!@#/123” key followed by a glyph types a glyph as in typing

with “q” with two keystrokes which are and “q” keys.

Whereby a novel “1@#/123” key followed by a glyph types a glyph as in typing

with “q” with two keystrokes which are “!@#” and “q” keys.

Whereby a “123” key followed by “1”, “2”, etc. keys optionally type the “1”, “2”, etc. Arabic numerals with two keystrokes.

Whereby a “123” key followed by “q”, “w”, etc. keys optionally type the

etc. Ethiopic digit glyphs.

Whereby a “123” key followed by “a”, “s”, etc. keys optionally type the

Ethiopic digit glyphs.

Whereby a “123” key followed by “z”, “x”, etc. keys optionally type the “1”, “2”, etc. Ethiopic novel numerals by the inventor.

Whereby a “tab” key followed by glyphs in the four rows to type those by the “123” above or

Whereby a “tab” key followed by glyphs in the four rows to type the four groups of ten symbols from FIG 73 such as “j” followed by “1”, “2”, etc. types

(a ” etc.

Whereby a “!@#/123” key followed by a glyph types a glyph as in typing

with “q” or the defaults there with a second keystroke.

Whereby a “123” key followed by “q”, “a”, etc. keys optionally type the

etc. Ethiopic digit glyphs.

Whereby a “123” key followed by “z”, “x”, etc. keys optionally type the “1”, “2”, etc. novel Ethiopic numeral glyphs.

Whereby creating a second “123” or just a key named “!@#/123” or “Eth/123”to type a glyph from there with a second keystroke.

Whereby a shifted key presents the shifted form to be modified by the numbers as in typing with “q6”. - An Ethiopic smartphone and the like gadgets type in abbreviated or non-abbreviated virtual environment whereby three keystrokes generate a glyph by numerous methods

Whereby when the shift is touched on the default keyboard the

is typed with “q” two keystrokes while “a” types

and “4” types

and these are three keystrokes. And

from za and

from z4 • do types while d7 type

Whereby these did not take care of the

and the best is to allow the novel “!@3” key be another full or half default key as an option. The new default “!@#/#-+” will handle another four like the default and the symbols distributed on the “tab” and “123”.

Whereby a third keystroke presents the shifted vowels to be typed with the vowel forms of the second keystroke with a third. An example is typing

with “!@#” then “ze” as an option.

Whereby a shifted keystroke presents the shifted vowels to be typed with the vowel forms of the second keystroke with a third. An example is typing

with “!@#” then “z5” as an optio Whereby “double tab” generates a glyph when followed by another key.

Whereby method where a “!@#/123” key is added so that symbols such as “[”, are directly typed. In smartphones the approach is a little different. The default 26, but preferably 30 keys type the default and “qu”, “qi” type The ten digits type glyphs such as with “q6” with the second keystroke each. The shift key brings up the and these are typed with a keystroke each. From here the numbers type glyphs such as

with the third keystrokes. The novel brings the glyphs that are typed with “123” key such as From here they type other symbols with the numbers as second keystrokes. Because the does not render glyphs that appear as the regular default, they are typed by second keystroke and those modified with three keystrokes. The “tab” and “123” can perform the same way presenting the Ethiopic numbers and symbols.

Whereby An Ethiopic smartphone and the like gadget type in abbreviated and nonabbreviated layouts typed with four keystrokes. These are not recommended. Adding consonants and vowels is possible and that is claimed. The virtual Ethiopic Molla writing system has the following features.

Whereby Default Amharic with vowelled numbers. Method 1 wher

is typed with q6 and with “y6”.

Whereby Default Amharic optional Method 2. wher

is typed with “q” (and

with “y” and with “Ethiopic #-+”). The vowelled numbers are excluded.

Whereby the shifted Amharic in Method 1 where

shows up tapping the “Q” key

is typed with “q”.

is typed with “y” and

with “y6”

Whereby in another Method 2. the

is typed with “q” and

with “y”. with “y6”.

is typed from “Ethiopic #-+” from “y”.

Whereby Amharic “#+=” types more glyphs with numbers, though this can be typed with another layer of numbers from the “123” key. It may be better if “123” is left alone in Amharic and English and just move the “#+=” part to the new “Ethiopic #-+”.

Whereby 1234567890

123456890appear on the “123” key, these are optionally available on the “tab” key.

Whereby On the Ethiopic shift

appears on the “q” key and

can be typed with “q6” while can use the “Ethiopic #-+” key.

Whereby the

can be typed from one of the two layouts and the rest 25 symbols typed from there.

Whereby confusion can be minimized by using the vowelled number and the details and options will be shown in thew app manual. Whereby the new “h” series and the like that recently appears as Ethiopic Extender-B can be handled as fourth layers.

Whereby an option is make up four additional vowels somewhere on the smartphone screen to assist the “aeiou” while 10 are available as vowels through the number keys.

12. Methods of Ethiopic smartphone keyboarding whereby more keyboards are added to accommodate Ethiopic by in increasing the keys, keyboards, vowels, etc. as compared to those of computers.

13- Methods of Ethiopic typing in computers and smartphones in various ways

Whereby the system work in different layouts such as QWERTY, AZERTY, Heleheme, ABGD, etc.

Whereby the ABSHA (with timeout) and Molla Ethiopic systems are used from the same startup.

Whereby an Ethiopic glyph can be typed in more than one way from the same startup.

Whereby the 37 Ethiopic primary keys, numbers and the vowels are given a key each in many columns with rows greater or less than 10 keys per row. The portrait and landscape orientations are not necessarily the same.

Whereby the each of the English glyph usage is deactivated through the program before assigning the Ethiopic and are switched in and out of the Ethiopic to English though one or two keystrokes such as “ctrl Alt”, “F4”, etc.

The memory resident app such as GeezEdit work in various apps that allow font switching including EthioSuite as well as in the dedicated Ethiopic app such as EthioSuite and web sites.

Whereby the Arabic numerals and the Ethiopic novel ten numerals are used from the regular as well as the numeric pad.

Whereby the command keys, arrows as well as the “ /*-+ and .” keys on the numeric pad are optionally used for Ethiopic typing.

Whereby a glyph is optionally settled by numerous other methods such as adding non- printable glyph code such as 11743-

Whereby useful features presented in incomplete and fake typing methods have been corrected and properly implemented.

14- An Ethiopic typing whereby clicking on the active help activated glyph types the character by clicking on it, etc.

15- An Ethiopic on-screen typing with GeezEdit and/or EthioSuite to type with mouse clicks, touching the screen with fingers or typing with the keyboard.

16. A Latin typing of the

third keystroke replacement with a

strike of the

novel key such that the symbols are typed with two keystrokes instead of three avoiding a keystroke. The key activity may returns to default once the glyph is selected and rendered.

17- An Ethiopic dedicated publisher with numerous novel features partially described as potential GeezEdit use.

. An Ethiopic memory resident app that worked in different layouts including EthioSuite, iPhone and android apps. - The use of the Latin keyboard with 26 to 30 or more keys to type Ethiopic is described.. Timeout and disable keys are optionally used tin the current system though Ethiopic typing with one or two keystrokes from different keys is described. Differences in layouts are not novel as modifications are numerous. . Example keystrokes are shown in the tables and are part of the claim without limiting the options. . Different methods such as populated pop ups, highlighted vowels, etc. are described and other fake methods are included to this novelty. - Amharic labels for the computer keys preferably with superimposed English are helpful inclusions. - A method whereby languages are separated to different sets and even subsets such as short, Qwerty, Heleheme, etc. such that a Geez language set presents only the glyphs the language needs while that particular glyph is always typed the same way including when the choice is Ethiopic. - A method whereby programming to render glyphs with or without timeout is mixed. It is possible to settle glyphs with secondary steps that vary from adding a space to typing the following glyph as well as even saving a document. Another is adding a non-printable code in the sequence map. . The Ethiopic numbers 1234567890 come from the second typeface and this is another novelty of typing two numeric systems from the same layout. This feature also allows Ethiopic to share symbols such as Latin copyright with Ethiopic copyright from the same key Extended ASCII where applicable. The primary typeface (GeezEdit Unicode) and the secondary typeface (GeezEdit2) vary also because some glyphs are not included in Llnicode. - A method of adding more vowels outside the spots so that Ethiopic can be typed with (more or) less than 26 alphabetic keys. . Methods to modify ABSHA layouts to work with the Molla system.