sirakwht / amharic-keyboard

A python package to type amharic characters using latin alphabets

Amharic-keyboard

Demo

https://amharic.io

This is a simple python package that lets you type Amharic letters using Latin alphabet.

It will analyze the given Latin text for consonants + vowels and converts those words in to the equaivalent of Amharic words.

It follws the same pattern used for typing Amharic words when texting.

Installation:

pip install amharic-keyboard

or simply grab keyboard.py and import that.

requires python 3

usage

import amharic_keyboard as ak

print(ak.type("selam nachihu?"))  

#prints:
     ሰላም ናችሁ?

bugs

windows console doesn't support custom fonts so you won't be able to see the converted characters.