The old style (pre and early 20th century) ETHIOPIC COMMA will be treated as a glyph variant for the present day decendent. The two are functionally equivalent in text [15] :
was formerly 
ETHIOPIAN LETTER MWA : 123F
Two variants of MWA found in older texts of the present century are presented below
[5, 7,
8, 9] :
ETHIOPIAN LETTER MW/MWU : (NOT CODED)
Two glyphs are given in the Leslau text for MW (spoken as MWU regionally). The caligrapher is believed to
have changed preferences during composition of the document. A sample of the first of the
two variants is found on page 57, the second on page 72.
[6] :
ETHIOPIAN LETTER MYA : (NOT CODED)
A variant of MYA given in prominent texts on Amharic is given below. It is not known in
what regions and dialects of Amharic the character is used. No word samples are available.
Further information on the use of the character is sought. Note that a MWA variant is also
used for MYA here.
[5, 7,
8, 9] :
ETHIOPIAN LETTER RWA : 124F
A variant of RWA found in older texts of the present century is presented below
[5, 7,
8, 9] :
ETHIOPIAN LETTER RYA : (NOT CODED)
A variant of RYA given in prominent texts on Amharic is given below. It is not known in
what regions and dialects of Amharic the character is used. No word samples are available.
Further information on the use of the character is sought. Note that the popular RWA variant
is also used for RYA here.
[4, 5,
8, 9] :
ETHIOPIAN SERIES VAE : 1288 - 128E
Seven variant glyphs are known for the protoform of the VAE series. The Ge'ez (first)
order is presented below
[11] :
ETHIOPIAN LETTER NWA : 12B7
A variant of NWA found in older texts of the present century is presented below
[5, 7,
8, 9] :
ETHIOPIAN LETTER NYWA : 12BF
A variant of NYWA found in older texts of the present century is presented below
[5, 7,
8, 9] :
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