Amharic (አማርኛ ’amarəñña) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia. It is the second most spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic. It is the "official working" language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and thus has official status nationwide. It is also the official or working language of several of the states within the federal system, including Amhara and the multi-ethnic Southern Nations, Nationalit ...

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• Amharic language - Sounds and orthography
• Amharic language - Consonant and vowel phonemes
• Amharic language - Amharic abugida signs Fidel ፊደል
• Amharic language - Grammar
• Amharic language - Pronouns
• Amharic language - Nouns
• Amharic language - Verbs
• Amharic language - Adjectives
• Amharic language - Amharic translation companies
• Amharic language - Rastafarians

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Amharic language, Amharic language - Sounds and orthography, Amharic language - Consonant and vowel phonemes, Amharic language - Amharic abugida signs Fidel ፊደል, Amharic language - Grammar, Amharic language - Pronouns, Amharic language - Nouns, Amharic language - Verbs, Amharic language - Adjectives, Amharic language - Amharic translation companies, Amharic language - Rastafarians

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Amharic language - Consonant and vowel phonemes. There is no agreed on way of transliterating Amharic into Roman characters. The Amharic examples in the sections below use one system that is common, though not universal, among linguists specializing in Ethiopian Semitic languages. The consonant and vowel charts give these symbols in parentheses where they differ from the standard IPA symbols. Amharic language - Amharic abugid ...

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Amharic language, Amharic language - Sounds and orthography, Amharic language - Consonant and vowel phonemes, Amharic language - Amharic abugida signs Fidel ፊደል, Amharic language - Grammar, Amharic language - Pronouns, Amharic language - Nouns, Amharic language - Verbs, Amharic language - Adjectives, Amharic language - Amharic translation companies, Amharic language - Rastafarians

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"Wodefit Gesgeshi, Widd Innat Ityopp'ya" ("March Forward, Dear Mother Ethiopia") is the national anthem of Ethiopia. The words are by Dereje Melaku Mengesha and music is by Solomon Lulu Mitiku. It was adopted in 1992. Wodefit Gesgeshi Widd Innat Ityopp'ya - Amharic lyrics. Yäzêgennät Keber Bä-Ityopp'yachen S'änto Tayyä Hezbawinnät Dar Eskädar Bärto. Läsälam Läfeteh Lähezboch Näs'annät; Bä'ekkulennät Bäfeqer Qomänal Bä'andennät. Mäsärä ...

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• Wodefit Gesgeshi Widd Innat Ityopp'ya - Amharic lyrics
• Wodefit Gesgeshi Widd Innat Ityopp'ya - English translation
• Wodefit Gesgeshi Widd Innat Ityopp'ya - External link

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Amhara (አማራ) may refer to: Amhara, an ethnic group of Ethiopia. Amhara, an administrative region of modern Ethiopia; during the Imperial era, an Abyssinian province ruled by a native Ras or Negus. Amharic language, spoken by the Amhara people. Other related archivesAmhara, Amharic language, Ethiopia, Negus, Ras, administrative region

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The Weyto language is believed to be an extinct language formerly spoken in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia by a small group of hippopotamus hunters who now speak Amharic. The Scottish traveller James Bruce, who spoke Amharic, passed through the area about 1770 and reported that "the Wayto speak a language radically different from any of those in Abyssinia," but was unable to obtain any "certain information" on it, despite prevailing upon the king to send for two Weyto men for him to ask questions, which they would "neither answer no ...

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• Weyto language - Bibliography

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The Church of St. George (Amharic: Bete Giyorgis) is a monolithic church in Lalibela, Ethiopia. It has been falsely rumored to have been constructed by the Knights Templar in the 13th century and to house the Ark of the Covenant. There are numerous monolithic churches in the Lalibela complex from a similar period, many connected to one another by tunnels, but this is the most famous of them. There is a small baptism ...

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Semitic is a linguistic term referring to a subdivision of largely Middle Eastern Afro-Asiatic languages, the Semitic languages, as well as their speakers' corresponding cultures, and ethnicities. Although there is much debate about the scope of the word's "racial" use in the context of population genetics and history, as a linguistic term the language family is well-defined to include ancient and modern versions of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Syriac, Tigrigna, et al. Semitic - Origin. ...

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• Semitic - Origin
• Semitic - Language
• Semitic - Geography
• Semitic - Religion
• Semitic - Ethnicity and race

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Bussa (or Muusiye) is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in the Dirashe region in the South West of Ethiopia. The people themselves, numbering 6,624 according to the 1998 census, call their language Mossittaata. Two varieties can be distinguished: North and West Bussa. Bussa is highly influenced by surrounding Cushitic and Omotic languages and should be considered endangered according to Gurmu (2005). Speakers of the North Bussa variety are shifting to Oromo, Kidole (Diraytata) or Amharic, whereas speakers of the We ...

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• Bussa language - External link

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Addis Ababa (Amharic አዲስ አበባ, "new flower") is the capital city of Ethiopia. As a chartered city (astedader akabibi), Addis Ababa has the status of both a city and a state. The city has as many as 80 nationalities speaking 80 languages, and Christian and Muslim communities. Addis Ababa is located about 2,500m above sea level at 9.03° N 38.74° E). [1][2] As of 2005, the estimated population is 2,757,72 ...

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• Addis Ababa - History
• Addis Ababa - Other features

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Amhara (አማራ) is an ethnicity of people in the central highlands of Ethiopia, numbering about 19 million, making up around 26% of the country's population (estimates differ). They speak Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, and dominate the country's political and economic life. Amhara ethnicity - Agriculture. About 90% of the Amhara are rural and make their living through farming, mostly in the Ethiopian highlands. Prior to the 1974 revolution, absentee landlords maintained strict control over t ...

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• Amhara ethnicity - Agriculture
• Amhara ethnicity - Religion
• Amhara ethnicity - Art
• Amhara ethnicity - History

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Zara Yaqob (Amharic "Seed of Jacob") (1399–1468) was negus negust (1434–1468) of Ethiopia (throne name Kuestantinos I or Constantine I), and a member of the Solomonid dynasty. Born at Tilq in the province of Fatagar (now part of the Oromia Region, near the Awash River), Zara Yaqob was the youngest son of Dawit I and his youngest queen, Igzi Kebra. The British expert on Ethiopia, Edward Ullendorff, stated that Zara Yaqob "was unquestionably the greatest ruler Ethiopia had seen since Ezana, during the hey ...

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• Zara Yaqob - Zara Yaqob's reign
• Zara Yaqob - Zara Yaqob and the Ethiopian church
• Zara Yaqob - Foreign affairs

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The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Amharic ኢትዮጵያ Ityopp'ya) is a country situated in the Horn of Africa. It has one of the most extensive known histories as an independent nation on the continent, or indeed in the world. Unique among African countries, Ethiopia maintained independence during the Scramble for Africa, and continued to do so except for a 5 year period when it was under Italian occupation. Ethiopia was historically called Abyssinia. The English name "Ethiopia" is derived from the Greek wo ...

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• Ethiopia - History
• Ethiopia - Politics
• Ethiopia - Regions
• Ethiopia - Geography
• Ethiopia - Economy
• Ethiopia - Demographics
• Ethiopia - Languages
• Ethiopia - Culture
• Ethiopia - Miscellaneous topics

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The labiovelars ḳw ቈ, ḳhw ቘ, ḫw ኈ, kw ኰ and gw ጐ are variants of ḳ ቀ, ḳh ቐ, ḫ ኀ, k ከ and g ገ. Some letters have variants for use in Amharic and Tigrinya. Note that the emphatic consonants ḥ, ḳ, ṭ, č̣, p̣, ṣ, ḍ are realized as ejectives in Amharic, and for this reason commonly transliterated as h', k', t', č', p', s', d'. v ...

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Ge'ez alphabet, Ge'ez alphabet - Basic signs, Ge'ez alphabet - Simple syllables, Ge'ez alphabet - Letter variants, Ge'ez alphabet - Numerals, Ge'ez alphabet - Unicode, Ge'ez alphabet - Literature, Ge'ez alphabet - Special characters

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Central areas of Eritrea and most tribes in today's northern Ethiopia share a common background in the kingdom of Axum of the first millennium, and in its Oriental-Orthodox christian church, Tewahedos, as well as in its Ge'ez language. Around 90% of today Eritreans speak languages (Tigrinya and Tigre) that are closely related to the now-extinct Geez language - as do Tigrinya-speakers in northern Ethiopia (and Amharic-speakers of Ethiopia are Ethiopian Semitics too, though Amharic is a bit more ...

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History of Eritrea, History of Eritrea - Early history, History of Eritrea - Italian colonization, History of Eritrea - British administration and federalization, History of Eritrea - Fight for independence, History of Eritrea - Establishing an independent country, History of Eritrea - After independence

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Their predominant religion for centuries has been Christianity, with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church playing a central role in the culture of the country and of the Amharic ethnic group. The church maintains close links with the Egyptian Coptic Church. Easter and Epiphany are the most important celebrations, marked with services, feasting and dancing. There are also many "fast" days throughout the yea ...

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Amhara ethnicity, Amhara ethnicity - Agriculture, Amhara ethnicity - Religion, Amhara ethnicity - Art, Amhara ethnicity - History

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The precise definition of what a word is depends on which language the definition is for, and the dividing line between words and phrases is not always clear. In most writing systems, a word is usually marked out in the text by interword separation such as spaces or word dividers used in some languages such as Amharic. In other languages such as Chinese and Japanese, and in many ancient languages such as Sanskrit, word boundaries are not shown. Even in writing systems that use interword separation, word boundaries are not always clear ...

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Word, Word - Difficulty in defining the term, Word - Words in different classes of languages, Word - Complexity of word boundaries in speech, Word - Determining word boundaries

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The modern linguistic meaning of "Semitic" is therefore derived from, but not identical to Biblical usage. In a linguistic context the Semitic languages are a subgroup of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family (according to Greenberg's widely accepted classification) and include, among others, Akkadian, the ancient language of Babylon, Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, Arabic, the largest contemporary Semitic language, Aramaic, the mother-tongue of Jesus, Canaanite, Ge'ez, the ancient language of the Ethiopian Coptic scriptures, H ...

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Semitic, Semitic - Origin, Semitic - Language, Semitic - Geography, Semitic - Religion, Semitic - Ethnicity and race

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While camping here in 1882, Emperor Yohannes IV was so impressed by his sight of a comet, which he interpreted as a wondrous event, he decided to found a city here, and named Dessie (Amharic "My Joy"). Prior to Dessie's foundation, the major settlement in this area was Wasal, first mentioned in an early 16th century Italian itinerary,1 The town took on increased importance when Ras Mikael Ali, son-in-law to Emperor Menelik II, made it his base. It was in Dessie where his son, the Emperor Iyasus V, crowned him negus around 1 ...

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Dessie, Dessie - History, Dessie - Notes

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The U.S. was first targeted by Radio Moscow during the early 1950s, with transmitters in the Moscow region. Later Western North America was targeted by the newly constructed Vladivostok and Magadan relay stations. The first broadcasts to Africa went on the air in the late 1950s in English and French. In 1961 Radio Moscow for the first time spoke in three African languages: Amharic, Swahili and Hausa. Over time, listeners in Africa got a chance to tune ...

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Voice of Russia, Voice of Russia - Early years, Voice of Russia - The Cold War years, Voice of Russia - Changes 1980s–1991, Voice of Russia - Transmission network, Voice of Russia - VOR output compared to other broadcasters, Voice of Russia - USSR Shortwave broadcasting milestones and innovations, Voice of Russia - Radio Wolga

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