From: Daniel Yacob (unicode@geez.org)
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 05:34:31 CDT
> Do Ethiopian telephones really use ethiopic numbers, though?
Nope. Nor on clocks (except as a gag-gift). A century ago
this was a limitation of imported technology, no doubt also a
contributor to the displacement of Ethiopic numerals by
western. If telephones had their origin in Ethiopia it might
be a different story, perhaps today no phone numbers would exist
with the digit 0 ;-)
/Daniel
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