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Amharic

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Amharic , language of Ethiopia belonging to the South Ethiopic group of South Semitic languages, which, in turn, belong to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages ). The official tongue of Ethiopia since the 14th cent., Amharic is spoken by about 20 million people in that country. Amharic employs a modification of the Ethiopic script (see Ethiopic ). The earliest extant texts in Amharic go back to the 14th cent. Amharic has been considerably influenced in its grammar and vocabulary by the nearby Cushitic tongues. Bibliography: See W. Leslau,... Read more

Amharic language
Semitic language of Ethiopia. Amharic is spoken by more than 18 million people...Ethiopian monarchy by Amhara sovereigns. Amharic is written in a modified form of the partly...Ethiopic languages ). Though manuscripts in Amharic are known from the 14th century, the language... Read more

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	Introductory Grammar of Amharic. (Brief Reviews of Books). ; Introductory Grammar of Amharic. By WOLF LESLAU. Porta Linguarum Orientalium...author's encyclopedic Reference Grammar of Amharic (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995...of Vienna in 1926 he tried to study Amharic using Franz Praetorius' Die amharische... Read more
	The enclitic -mm in Amharic: reassessment of a multifunctional morpheme (1).(Report) ; ...article we examine the enclitic -mm in Amharic and its claimed functions as topic marker...marker. 1. Introduction The enclitic -mm in Amharic has been claimed to fulfill several discourse-pragmat...relative verbs in the imperfective aspect. Amharic is an Ethiosemitic language spoken in... Read more
	[ * Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, has 345 letters and letter variations. Needless to say, that makes an Amharic keyboard difficult to find.... ] ; * Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, has 345 letters and letter variations. Needless to say, that makes an Amharic keyboard difficult to find. * Spin a person in a circle until they're too dizzy to stand up. If you believe... Read more
	Court rejects petition for Russian, Amharic voter data ; ...of voter information be in Russian and Amharic, as well as in Hebrew and Arabic, saying...Ba'aliya Party, asked that Russian and Amharic be added to both the voter notices telling...parties be allowed to put Russian and Amharic translations of their symbols on the ballot... Read more
	Herzog plans to expand Amharic radio broadcasts ; ...2007 Headline: Herzog plans to expand Amharic radio broadcasts Byline: RUTH EGLASH Edition...for the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Amharic-language radio show despite recent cutbacks...venture that would expand the hours of the Amharic- language broadcast. Funding for such... Read more
	[ * Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, has ... ] ; * Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, has 345 letters and letter variations. Needless, to say, that makes an Amharic keyboard difficult to find. * You probably know that googol means 10 to the hundredth power, but did you know that a 9-year-o... Read more
	Yisrael Ba'aliya to court: Order Russian, Amharic election materials ; ...election materials be printed in Russian and Amharic, as well as Hebrew and Arabic. The party...prime ministerial race, be in Russian and Amharic. It also asked that each party be allowed...its name on the ballots in Russian and Amharic. The Central Elections Committee refused... Read more
	Money Talks, But Does It Speak Amharic?; Immigrant-Focused News Outlets Find Growing Audience, Funding Obstacles ; ...community, how large they are," Desta, whose first language is Amharic, said in halting English. Desta, 41, was one of a dozen of...Ethiopia -- loosely, "Belonging to Ethiopia" -- is in English and Amharic. Almost all its advertisers are Ethiopian, mostly lawyers... Read more
	Tomorrow is another day: an Ethiopian student survives a brutal imprisonment by translating Gone with the Wind into his native Amharic.(Nebiy Mekonnen) ; Addis Ababa is nine degrees north of the equator, a city of brutal sun and cold nights chilled by mountain air, ringed by hilltops, and fed by springs that tumble into polluted creeks swarmed by buzzards and hawks. It is a city of old palaces hidden by soaring gates and of dirt alleys that vanish Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...This thorough and detailed grammar of Amharic, representing over thirty years of research...significant event in the modern history of Amharic. It is yet another significant event in...ninety-first year), doyen of Ethiopian studies. Amharic is an important world language of perhaps... Read more

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