- Amharic has a variety of local dialects, all of which are mutually intelligible. There are three major dialects: Gondar, Gojjami, and Showa.
- By the turn of the 21st century, Amharic was being spoken by a population of over 18.7 million and over 21.8 million by 2007 among first language speakers.
- Peace Corps Ethiopia. Amharic Language Manual. the ሸ/ š is pronounced as the ‘sh’ sound in ‘shoe’. the ጰ/ p’ä in this sound is an exploding bilabial ‘p’.
- Amharic.com provides Amharic language tutorial programs, software, audio CDs, books and DVD that will help you learn the Amharic language.
- Learning Amharic is one of those things you can mention in public and then watch the ripples you have just created amidst your friends and acquaintances
- The name Amharic (ኣማርኛ - amarəñña) comes from the district of Amhara (አማራ) in nortern Ethiopia, which is thought to be the historic centre of the language.
- On account of the Amharic language using wholly its own language, it is relatively difficult to translate the Amharic language into Roman characters.
- This article will help you understand many things about the Amharic language, what language is closest to Amharic, and its social and economic viability.
- AmharicTeacher lets you listen and as well provides you with the spellings of words in both native Amharic letters and English letters.
- The language is also a major literary language for Ethiopia. The oldest extant records in Amharic are songs and poems dating from the 14th century.