The collection is built upon fonts under the SIL Open Font License (OFL) where changes and additions are made to support the orthography. The font names are changed by simply prefixing "Gurage" to the original names. A single exception is made for the "Abyssinica SIL" font which begun supporting the 2013 Gurage orthography in version 2.1 on June 9th, 2021. Changes made can be found in the individual FONTLOG files in this repository.
A collection of Ethiopic fonts under the Gurage typeface preference as established by Fekede Menuta, and adopted by the Gurage Zone Tourism and Communication Bureau in Hidar 2006EC (December 2013) and endorsed by the Gurage Zone Administration Council in 2018. The orthography has been deployed into the Gurage Zone public school system at the start of the 2013EC school year (September 2020). The 28 letters introduced in the new orthography have been adopted into Unicode 14.0. The fonts in this section use the applicable Unicode encoding in the Ethiopic Extended-B range.
The Gurage Ethiopia Jiret font is derived from the Ethiopia Jiret font from the WashRa 4.1 collection. See the FONTLOG for details.
The Gurage Ethiopic Fantuwua font is derived from the Ethiopic Fantuwua font from the WashRa 4.1 collection. See the FONTLOG for details.
The Gurage Ethiopic Wookianos font is derived from the Ethiopic Wookianos font from the WashRa 4.1 collection. See the FONTLOG for details.
The Gurage Noto Sans Ethiopic font is derived from the Noto Serif Ethiopic font. See the FONTLOG for details.
The Gurage Noto Serif Ethiopic font is derived from the Noto Serif Ethiopic font. See the FONTLOG for details.
The Abyssinica SIL font replaces the "Gurage Zebidar" font previously in the collection following the adoption of the Zebidar glyphs in version 2.1 of Abyssinica SIL. from the Abyssinica SIL 2.1 typeface. See the FONTLOG for details.
Legacy fonts have been developed for three significant Gurage orthographies that have been used in noteably publication. All fonts have been derived from the Abyssinica SIL 2.0 typeface.
The initial orthography devised by Dr. Wolf Leslau and Sahle Selassie Berhane Mariam in 1962 and published in 1966 in the seminal work: Ethiopians Speak: Studies In Cultural Background. Volume 2. Chaha. See the FONTLOG for details.
An orthography developed independently between 1974-1977 by Carolyn Ford and Degefe Gebre Mariam and first used in publishing a selection of the Gospel of Matthew on January 7, 1977 and later used to publish the Gurage New Testament (ገደር ጕርዳ በጕራጊና) in 1983. See the FONTLOG for details.
The successor to the 1977 orthography developed to publish the Gurage Bible and becoming the reference glyphs under Unicode 4.1. The glpyhs have been in use from 1998 until a new orthography was introduced in 2013. The glpyhs may also be generated from the TypeTuner website with the language selection "Sebat Bet Gurage". See the FONTLOG for details.