Africa/Asmera / Africa/Asmara

[Gwillim Law]

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 at CS.UCLA.EDU>


> Thanks for the info.  I assume the spelling changed around the time
> Eritrea became independent in May 1993?