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Amharic grammar distinguishes person, number, and often gender. This includes personal pronouns such as English I , Amharic እኔ ǝne ; English she , Amharic እሷ ǝsswa . As in other Semitic languages, the same distinctions appear in three other places in their grammar.
Amharic. Abraham, Roy Clive (1968). The Principles of Amharic. Occasional Publication / Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. [rewritten version of 'A modern grammar of spoken Amharic', 1941] Amsalu Aklilu (1973) English-Amharic dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-72264-7
[12] [29] [1] [30] [31] Amharic is the most widely spoken and written language in Ethiopia. As of 2018, Amharic was spoken by 31.8 million native speakers in Ethiopia [6] with over 25 million secondary speakers in the nation. [6] Although additional languages are used, Amharic is still predominantly spoken by all ethnic groups in Addis Ababa.
Historically linked to the peninsular homeland of Old South Arabian, of which only one language, Razihi, remains, Ethiopia and Eritrea contain a substantial number of Semitic languages; the most widely spoken are Amharic in Ethiopia, Tigre in Eritrea, and Tigrinya in both. Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Amharic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Amharic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Geʽez ś ሠ Sawt (in Amharic, also called śe-nigūś, i.e. the se letter used for spelling the word nigūś "king") is reconstructed as descended from a Proto-Semitic voiceless lateral fricative [ɬ]. Like Arabic, Geʽez merged Proto-Semitic š and s in ሰ (also called se-isat: the se letter used for spelling the word isāt "fire").
See Gender in Dutch grammar.) Hittite (The Hittite "common" gender contains nouns that are either masculine or feminine in other Indo-European languages, while the "neuter" gender continues the inherited Indo-European neuter gender.) Norwegian (In the Bergen dialect, and in some sociolects of Oslo.)
Prof. Olga Kapeliuk (Hebrew: אולגה קפליוק; b. 1932, Kraków, Poland) is an Israeli linguist. Kapeliuk, who is professor emeritus of linguistics and African studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was considered among the most important Israeli linguists and researchers of Semitic languages, especially of Ethiopian languages and modern Aramaic dialects.