Amharic

  • Language Name: Amharic
  • Location Spoken in: Ethiopia
  • Language Family: Afro-Asiatic
  • Number of Speakers: approx. 21 million



Amharic for "Boil your water before using."
Notice that :: is Amharic punctuation for fullstop.

Acquisition Tools
CRL has developed tools for acquiring Amharic text. Please visit the page for a list of instructions and downloads.

Other links
A list of Ethiopic Unicode fonts and other resources can be found at http://www.abyssiniacybergateway.net/fidel/unicode/.

See the Wikipedia description of Amharic consonants and vowels.

Learn some Amharic
You can learn some phrases in Amharic. Each phrase on this page is accompanied by an audio file to help you learn its pronounciation in Amharic.