Dec. 5, 2006
1:25 a.m.
I just spot-checked a bunch of atlases and other references from 1897 to the present. Almost all of them use the spelling "Asmara". Only a couple of recent ones (1990s) gave "Asmera" as a variant spelling. I suppose the name in Amharic script is unchanged, so if anything has changed, it's the transliteration method. -- Gwillim Law ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Thanks for the info. I assume the spelling changed around the time Eritrea became independent in May 1993?