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Abu Rumi (about 1750 – 1819) is the name recorded as being the translator for the first complete Bible in Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia.Previously, only partial Amharic translations existed, and the Ethiopian Bible existed only in Ge'ez, the ancient liturgical language of Ethiopia.
In 1962, a new Amharic translation from Ge'ez was printed, again with the patronage of the Emperor. The preface by Emperor Haile Selassie I is dated "1955" (), and the 31st year of his reign (i.e. AD 1962 in the Gregorian Calendar), [10] and states that it was translated by the Bible Committee he convened between AD 1947 and 1952, "realizing that there ought to be a revision from the original ...
In Amharic, bihier, when directly translated into English, means ethnic group. Another, more generic Ethiopian/Eritrean word meaning "God" (including the deities of any other religion) is አምላክ ( `amlak ) which is descended from the Proto-Semitic term for "king" or "ruler."
There are multiple ways to write some letters in Amharic as some of the sounds that were once used in Geʽez are non-existent in modern Amharic. At the cost of redundancy, Amharic speakers retain the archaic letters in their orthography to preserve the Geʽez origins of many of their words. Also, the English approximations are sometimes very ...
Response meaning in English Sneezer reply and pronunciation Reply meaning in English Albanian: Shëndet (shuhn-det) "Health!" Faleminderit "Thank you" Shëndet paç "May you have health" Amharic: ይማርሽ (yimarish) for a female ይማርህ (yimarih) for a male "May God forgive you!" ያኑሪሽ (yanurish) for female ያኑርህ (yanurih ...
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 ...
Ya-Ityopya Hizb Tarik ("History of the People of Ethiopia") was published in 1922 and was Taye's first published historical work. [2] [7] The book was reprinted with some changes multiple times over the years, in 1927, 1953, 1955, 1962, 1965 and 1971, with its first English translation appearing in 1987 based on the first edition. [8]
Generally Ethio/Eritrean Semitic languages (e.g. Geʽez, Tigrinya, Amharic, Tigre, Guragigna, Harari, etc.), but also some Cushitic languages and Nilotic languages. Bilen , Meʼen , as one of two scripts in Anuak , are examples, and unofficially used in other languages of Ethiopia and languages of Eritrea .