The Amharic letters ( ) in the second chart have the consonants in rows and the vowels in columns. , except in final position when the vowel is not pronounced. The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Amharic pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. The syllables with the vowel transliterated as (i) are pronounced IPA transcriptions are given under each syllable. This phrase book contains a guide to English pronunciation and Grammar, a guide to Amharic pronunciation and Grammar, sample phrases and sentences arranged. Type Amharic aims to improve your online experience when typing in.

Where there are two transliterations, the one of the right is the EAE one. Alphabet TypeThe NATO phonetic alphabet international is the most widely used. The BGN/PCGN Amharic romanization system and the EAE Transliteration system are shown on the left of each column. To hear the pronunciation, just click on the sound icon. This time we will view a list of people, feminine and masculine, followed by grammar rules, finally a list of expressions in Amharic to help you practice your daily phrases. PCGN = The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use Welcome to the fifth Amharic lesson about gender. There are a number of ways to transliterate Amharic into the Latin alphabet, including one developed by Ernst Hammerschmidt, the EAE Transliteration system, developed by Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, and the BGN/PCGN* system, which was designed for use in romanizing names written in Amharic characters and adopted by the UN in 1967. ( ) How are you ( respectful to elder) Dehina newot ( ) How are you ( informal, to a man) Endemin-neh ( ) How are you ( informal, to a woman) Endemin-nesh ( ) I'm fine. 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.Īmharic is written with a version of the Ge'ez script known as The majority of the 25 million or so speakers of Amharic can be found in Ethiopia, but there are also speakers in a number of other countries, particularly Eritrea (ኤርትራ), Canada, the USA and Sweden. Break amharic down into sounds: AM + HARR + IK - say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them. Amharic is a Semitic language and the national language of Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ). Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Geez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church it also has affinities with Tigr, Tigrinya, and the South Arabic dialects.