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For most consonants there is an eighth form for the diphthong-wa or -oa, and for a number of those a ninth form for -jä. To represent a consonant with no following phonemic vowel, for example at the end of a syllable or in a consonant cluster , the ə ( / ɨ / ) form is used (the character in the sixth column).
Only a font is needed to view Ethiopic script. A keyboard driver is required only if you also wish to write text in the script. Amharic/Ge'ez based languages Keyboard online (and offline too) type 1 and type 2; Android Keyboards for Amharic and other Ge'ez based languages. FynGeez (Fynግዕዝ) keyboard; Ethiopic keyboard; Keyboard drivers
Amharic Braille may be an abugida like the print Geʽez script, but the inherent vowel is epenthetic ə /ɨ/ rather than a /ɐ/. The same letter is used for syllables ending in the vowel ə as for the bare consonant. Other syllables are written with this letter plus a second letter for the vowel.
The root l-ḥ-m means "meat" in Arabic, but "bread" in Hebrew and "cow" in Ethiopian Semitic; the original meaning was most probably "food". The word medina (root: d-y-n/d-w-n) has the meaning of "metropolis" in Amharic, "city" in Arabic and Ancient Hebrew, and "State" in Modern Hebrew. There is sometimes no relation between the roots.
With 57,500,000 total speakers as of 2019, including around 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic is the most widely spoken of the group, the most widely spoken language of Ethiopia and second-most widely spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic. [3] [4] Tigrinya has 7 million speakers and is the most widely spoken language in ...
The sign for 1 doubles as a word separator. The other four signs double as both letters and numbers. Each of these four signs is the first letter of the name of the corresponding numeral. [8] An additional sign (𐩿) is used to bracket numbers, setting them apart from surrounding text. [8] For example, 𐩿𐩭𐩽𐩽𐩿
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
Amharic is also the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world (after Arabic). [11] [12] Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. [13] The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units is called an abugida (አቡጊዳ). [14]