If you have difficulty typing Ge’ez Fidels fast, this app is for you. Latin to Fidel App lets you type faster using Latin alphabets. Latin to Fidel was built based on an efficient algorithm that converts Latin alphabet(s) to its corresponding Ge’ez Fidel(s) as you type.
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- Installing or Upgrading the App from Google Play
- Editing Techniques
- Copying/Sharing Result Text
Installing or Upgrading the App from Google Play
Go to Google Pay and search for Latin to Fidel or click here to navigate. Download, install, or upgrade to the latest version.
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Editing Techniques
General Tips
- Every Letters (without vowels) other than vowels themselves represent 6th Fidels in Ge’ez. E.g. l = ል
- Numbers and symbols are the same.
- Most of the Fidels are represented by small case Latin Letters. E.g. te = ተ, w = ው
- About 280 Ge’ez Fidels, 16 punctuations and the 10 digits were encoded incorporated in current app (Version 1.0.1). So, don’t worry you can type all of your favorite Fidels.
- Ge’ez Fidel represented with longest string letters is ‘ኌ’, which is ‘hhhuie’.
- Only a few Fidels requires uppercase letters.
- Amharic input method is based on Microsoft Amharic Language Pack (Version 1.0)
Typing Patterns
Consonant(s) + Vowel(s) – As I mentioned earlier, every letter (without vowels) other than vowels themselves represent the 6th Ge’ez Fidel(s). d = ድ.
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Append these one or more to constant(s) in order to create Fidel’s variations. – [e, u, i, a, ie, o]. So, for ደ variations – [de, du, di, da, die, d, do] = [ደ, ዱ, ዲ, ዳ, ዴ, ድ, ዶ]. Very clear, right?
Consonant(s) + Consonant(s) – This pattern also has variation, most the simplified and interesting one is when most/all of the Fidels are 6th once. E.g. ህልም = hlm
When two or more consonants appear together either they get combined to create a single Fidel (in rare situation) or create their own corresponding representation. E.g., ‘ፀ’ and ‘ጸ’ are the same yet you may write them as ‘tsse’ = ‘ፀ’ and ‘tse’ = ‘ጸ’.
When to use Uppercase?
Lowercase letters are default input, but you may require uppercase letters as well. E.g. ‘Se’ = ሸ. Here are most Fidels and their variations start with uppercases:
‘S’ = ‘ሽ’, ‘N’ = ‘ኝ’, ‘K’ = ‘ኽ’, ‘A’ = ‘ዐ’, ‘Ie’ = ‘ዔ’, ‘E’ = ‘ዕ’, ‘O’ = ‘ዖ’, ‘Z’ = ‘ዥ’, ‘T’ = ‘ጥ’, ‘C’ = ‘ጭ’, ‘P’ = ‘ጵ’, ‘Sua’ = ‘ሿ’, ‘Nua’ = ‘ኟ’, ‘Zua’ = ‘ዧ’, ‘Tua’ = ‘ጧ’, ‘Cua’ = ‘ጯ’, and ‘Pua’ = ‘ጷ’
Copying/Sharing result text
These are the two best features of the app; copying to clipboard and sharing other apps the final Ge’ez scripts.
Copying – the app system wide copying, it copies result text to clipboard where you can have access to whenever you want while using another app(s).
Sharing – sharing also make system level action, it sends result text to other apps. Like Text Messaging. So, if you want to send text message, just open up Latin to Fidel and share to Message App after completing editing.
