Harari (Ḣarari / ሐረሪ)
Harari (Ḣarari / ሐረሪ) is a Semitic language from Ethiopia.
ISO 639-1: No language code.
ISO 639-2: No language code.
Proposed ISO 639-3: har
Language codes for Harari written in …
Arabic script: har-Arab
Ethiopic script: har
Latin script: har-Latn
Old Harari used an orthography based on the Arabic script. In the late nineteeth century the Geez/Ethiopic script came into use for Modern Harari. The Harari migrant community in Melbourne, Australia, have set up langauge schools to teach the Harari language to their children. The local language school has adopted a Latin script orthography to facilitate teaching the Harari language to young children.
Keyboard layouts based on this adopted orthography have been developed to allow the students to type Harari in the Latin script and to learn to type Harrai in the Geez/Ethiopic script. In the future we hope to develop a keyboard layout for the Arabic script orthography for Old Harari. The Arabic script keyboard will be developed to assist in digitising and preserving older Harari manuscripts originally written in the Arabic script.
Harari and computers
- Unicode characters required by Harari
- Correspondence between Latin and Ethiopic orthographies
- Fonts
- Typing in Harari
- Other resources
- Sample document
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