Amharic
Ethiopia's official language
Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia, spoken by tens of millions as a first or second language.
It belongs to the Semitic language family, related to Arabic and Hebrew, and uses its own distinctive script derived from the ancient Ge'ez writing system.
She's learning Amharic to connect with her Ethiopian heritage.
Capital of Ethiopia
- injeraSpongy fermented teff bread
- teffEthiopian cereal grass
- AbyssiniaFormer Ethiopian name
- Horn of AfricaNortheast African peninsula
Rastafarianism · Fidel · birr
Name signifying faithfulness
- syllabaryWriting using sound-units
- charactersPersons in a narrative
- writing systemSymbols representing language
- diacriticsMarks altering letter pronunciation
typeface · calligraphy · alphabet · orthography · letterforms · inscription
Study of structural forms
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- lexiconVocabulary of a language
verb conjugation · word order · affixes · reduplication · definiteness · pluralization · loanwords · diglossia
Semitic language of Israel
- AramaicAncient Semitic language
- ArabicSemitic language family member
- geminationConsonant sound prolongation
- pharyngealOf the throat cavity
Addis Ababa
Capital of Ethiopia
Fidel
Name signifying faithfulness
- syllabaryWriting using sound-units
- charactersPersons in a narrative
- writing systemSymbols representing language
diacritics · typeface · calligraphy · alphabet · orthography · letterforms · inscription
morphology
Study of structural forms
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
lexicon · verb conjugation · word order · affixes · reduplication · definiteness · pluralization · loanwords · diglossia · dialectology
Hebrew
Semitic language of Israel
- AramaicAncient Semitic language
- ArabicSemitic language family member
- geminationConsonant sound prolongation
pharyngeal · glottal · Akkadian · Maltese · Ethiopic
- AfricaEgypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania
- languagesEnglish, Arabic, Chinese, German, French
- etymologyword origins, word history, word origin, etymon, root words
- African LanguagesSwahili, Zulu, Yoruba, Xhosa, Igbo
- Semitic LanguagesHebrew, Hebrew alphabet, Arabic, Aramaic, Phoenician
- Afroasiatic LanguagesArabic, Hebrew, Somali, Berber, Akkadian