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Ethiopian Alphabet: Amharic Letters

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Amharic Alphabet
The Amharic language belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family which includes languages
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Amharic is also known to be the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world.

Second only to Arabic, and it uses the ancient language of Geez as its script, this is known as
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The Ethiopian alphabet or Amharic letters is also known as Ethiopic or Geez is one of the
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This alphabet is used by many Ethiopian languages and the various subsets include Agew, Dress (Habesha
Amharic, Awingi, Bench, Bilen, Dawro, Dizi, Gamo-Gofa, Geez, Gumuz, Guragie, Kayla, Kunful, Kemis/Kemise)
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their own and overlapping character sets.

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Ethiopic is an excellent phonetic syllabary, with the added advantage of not being a ected by
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The reason is simple: each glyph represents a phoneme or sound. But this advantage comes
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By using these grid systems, one can easily learn the Ethiopian alphabet. Return

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Although it has been tried, there is no standardized method of writing down the Amharic
language into the Latin.

This phonetic alphabet was manually written until the advent of the printing press which began
to be utilized in Ethiopia as early as in 1910.

The dawn of the computer age saw pioneers such as Dr. Molla create programs rendering each
glyph of the alphabet with only two keystrokes.

Since then, the character set of about 500 glyphs has been standardized by Unicode, a
organization that provides a unique number for each character.

Utilizing less keystrokes when typing in the Ethiopian alphabet has always remained a
challenge for Ethiopian software engineers and inventors.

There are just too many characters to t on a normal keyboard.

The Ethiopian alphabet has 7 vowels: a (about), u (spoon), I (meat), a (car), e (say), I (kin),
and o (tore).

The 33 shapes are changed to point out a di erent vowel which follows the base consonant.

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Languages in Ethiopia

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