Ethiopians get texting in Amharic
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A new range of mobile phones has just gone on sale in Ethiopia, with the onscreen menu in Amharic, and the ability to send SMS text messages in the Ge’ez script - used for Amharic and other languages in the region. This is something of a breakthrough in a country where until recently text messaging was not allowed in any language. As the clock approached midnight on the Ethiopian New Year’s Eve in September, just before the start of the year 2000 in the Ethiopian calendar, mobile phones across Addis Ababa started to bleep with the first text message their owners had received for two years. “I wish you Happy Ethiopian Millennium,” it read in English. “SMS service will be launched shortly.” And it was signed by the head of Ethiopian Telecom, the country’s one and only telephone operator.
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