AMHARIC

ămhârˈĭk, language of Ethiopia belonging to the South Ethiopic group of South Semitic languages, which, in turn, belong to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages). The official tongue of Ethiopia since the 14th cent., Amharic is spoken by about 20 million people in that country. Amharic employs a modification of the Ethiopic script (see Ethiopic). The earliest extant texts in Amharic go back to the 14th cent. Amharic has been considerably influenced in its grammar and vocabulary by the nearby Cushitic tongues.

See W. Leslau, Amharic Textbook (1968); C. A. Ferguson, The Ethiopian Language Area (1971); W. Leslau, Concise Amharic Dictionary (1980).

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books on: Amharic  - 451 results

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Ethiopia: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture
Book by George A. Lipsky, Wendell Blanchard, Abraham M. Hirsch, Bela C. Maday; HRAF Press, 1962
Subjects: Ethiopia
...scholars have suggested, however, that Amharic may have been derived from a sister language...closer to Geez, but there is no doubt that Amharic is further removed than either. The relationship...would then be likened to Spanish, and Amharic to French also because it has been subjected...
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 1
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...geographically defined within the regions where Amharic either originated or has been spoken the...de facto standard. This is the form of Amharic that is used in the media as well as in...the modern Ethiopian Semitic languages, Amharic has been heavily influenced by the Cushitic...
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Encyclopedia of African Literature
Book by Simon Gikandi; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: African Literature--Encyclopedias
Amharic literature Geez remained practically the...had chronicles from his reign recorded in Amharic, the present national language of Ethiopia...After that time, the volume of writing in Amharic increased steadily, especially from the...
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The Power of Continuity: Ethiopia through the Eyes of Its Children
Book by Eva Poluha; Nordic Africa Institute, 2004
Subjects: Children--Ethiopia, Ethiopia--Social Conditions
...Participation in class The music and the Amharic teacher showed almost opposite approaches...teacher focusing on the notes and the Amharic teacher trying to engage the students...time and again. It did not mean that the Amharic teacher gave no notes; indeed he did...
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State Building and Democratization in Africa: Faith, Hope, and Realities
Book by Kidane Mengisteab, Cyril Daddieh; Praeger Publishers, 1999
Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan--Politics And Government--1960-, Democracy--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Democratization--Africa, Sub-Saharan
...to an Amhara woman, very fluent in Amharic he could not speak the Oromo language...which was conducted entirely in the Amharic language. The goal of the campaign was to spread literacy among Amharic speakers as well as literacy and Amharic...
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journal articles on: Amharic  - 129 results

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Introductory Grammar of Amharic
Journal article by Alan S. Kaye; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002
Subjects: Introductory Grammar of Amharic (Book)
Introductory Grammar of Amharic by Alan S. Kaye Introductory Grammar of Amharic. By WOLF LESLAU. Porta Linguarum Orientalium...from the authors encyclopedic Reference Grammar of Amharic (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995), written...
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The Mechanics of Fingerspelling: Analyzing Ethiopian Sign Language
Journal article by Kyle Duarte; Sign Language Studies, Vol. 11, 2010
Subjects: Orthography, Sign language, Sound
...CV) combination. The Ethiopie Script Amharic, a Semitic language of Ethiopia, has...Differing from other major Semitic languages, Amharic and its sister language, Tigrinya, are...heritage (Gaur 1984). Traditionally, Amharic base consonant symbols have been predictably...
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Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Journal article by Sarah Heery; Africa, Vol. 74, 2004
Subjects: Academic libraries--Services, Educational organizations--Aims and objectives, Educational organizations--Services, Ethiopia--History, Ethiopia--Religious aspects, Ethiopia--Social aspects, Ethiopian history--Research, University and college libraries--Services
...unique writing and its own language. Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia...later mastered along with the vernacular Amharic languages. He also read virtually every...dictionaries and grammars of Ethiopic and Amharic languages between 1661 and 1699. Ludolfs...
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Language, Education, and Public Policy in Eritrea
Journal article by Tekle M. Woldemikael; African Studies Review, Vol. 46, 2003
Subjects: Black history, Education, Eritrea, Language, Public policy, Public schools
...Arabic (Sudan), and to some extent Amharic (Ethiopia) in Africa. In these African...Ghebre-Ab 1993:211-12). (However, Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia...Sherman 1980:27. Thus, after 1956 Amharic was gradually introduced as a language...
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Ethiopian Language Policy and Health Promotion in Oromia
Journal article by Begna Fufa Dugassa; Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, Vol. 33, 2006
Subjects: Ethiopia--Education policy, Ethiopia--Health policy, Health education--Analysis, Public health--Analysis
...about the disease is lack of access to the Amharic language that dominates the media. The...tools used to discriminate against non-Amharic students. Emmanuel Abrah (1995), an...sat for the final exam, 60 percent were Amharic speakers. In 1970 there were 4500 students...
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Tomorrow Is Another Day: An Ethiopian Student Survives a Brutal Imprisonment by Translating Gone with the Wind into His Native Amharic
Magazine article by Carol Huang; American Scholar, Vol. 75, Autumn 2006
Subjects: Ethiopia--Military aspects, Ethiopia--Political aspects, Gone with the Wind (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Mekonnen, Nebiy--Crimes against, Mekonnen, Nebiy--Works, Mitchell, Margaret--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Prisoners--Personal narratives, Students--Crimes against, Students--Works
...Translating Gone with the Wind into His Native Amharic. by Carol Huang Addis Ababa is nine degrees...They called it living in the sic, an Amharic word that described being tightly packed...600 prisoners in Maikelawi spoke only Amharic, but others were students like Nebiy...
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Amharic Hits; Ethiopia's Beats
Magazine article by Dub Collossus; African Business, Vol. 0, August 2008
Subjects: A Town Called Addis (Sound recording)--Sound recording reviews, Sound recordings--Sound recording reviews
Amharic Hits; Ethiopias Beats. by Dub Collossus A Town called Addis By Dub Collossus Real World Cat: CDRW155 Direct from Addis Ababa...
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The Legacy of Johann Ludwig Krapf
Magazine article by M. Louise Pirouet; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 23, April 1999
Subjects: Africa, Anglican Church-Kenya, History, Krapf, Johann Ludwig (1810-81), Missionaries, Personal profiles, Protestantism
...the archaic language of the church, and Amharic, the modern speech of the Christian Amhara...already with some knowledge of Geez and Amharic, he set out to master the Cushitic speech...which they could not comprehend, to the Amharic translation, in which, as a good Lutheran...
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Eritrea's Man in Washington
Magazine article by Larry Luxner; New African, January 2002
Subjects: Ambassadors--Interviews, Asmeron, Girma--Interviews, Eritrea, Eritrean foreign relations--Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Ethiopian foreign relations--Eritrea
...the next eight years, headed the EPLFs Amharic-language clandestine radio programme...ancient Geez script which is also common to Amharic, the language of Ethiopia. Asmerom himself speaks Amharic, English and Arabic in addition to his...
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Incident at Awassa: An American Director Collaborates on Ethiopia's First AIDS Education Circus and Narrowly Avoids Provoking a Theatre Riot
Magazine article by David Schein; American Theatre, Vol. 19, May 2002
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)--Study and teaching, Americans in Ethiopia--Conduct of life, Street theater--Production and direction, Theatrical producers and directors--Personal narratives
...pushed softly, pleaded in my few words of Amharic, "Amar say conalo" ("Thank you...voice--was supposed to call out in Amharic, "Only Condoms Will Kill the AIDS Monster...supper in the food tent. They wrote in Amharic with my facilitation, translating back...
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Pounds 10m SPENT ON TRANSLATORS FOR POLICE; EXCLUSIVE 50 Different Languages Spoken in Midlands
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), October 28, 2007
...forced to deal with languages like Krio, Amharic and Dari, they also spent pounds 2...Ghana. Krio is heard in Sierra Leone, Amharic in Ethiopia and Dari in Afghanistan...Lingala; CZECH REPUBLIC Czech; ETHIOPIA Amharic; FRANCE French; GEORGIA Georgian; GHANA...
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Ethiopian Leader Defends Campaign against Critics; Trial of 131 Dissenters Set to Begin Today
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 23, 2006
...parties - including members of the largest, Amharic-speaking ethnic group - made strong...include the publisher of three respected Amharic-language papers and a pregnant Internet...reporters for the popular Voice of America-Amharic service have been charged in absentia...
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I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU; Life on the City Streets Is Hard. but Your Money Is Bringing Children Hope; My Comic Relief Diary from Ethiopia, by Julie Walters
Newspaper article by Julie Walters; The Mirror (London, England), February 28, 1997
...studying. Theyre learning English as well as the local language, Amharic. Theres real concentration on their faces - you can tell they...though, she relaxes and starts teaching me to write my name in Amharic. She keeps nipping up to me or dragging me round corners to...
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Ethiopian Native Pleases Compatriots
Newspaper article by Ann Geracimos; The Washington Times, August 30, 2001
...Now a U.S. citizen, Ms. Zeweda clearly has targeted an Amharic -speaking population as her customer base. When we visited...future. Offerings on the menu we saw were written first in Amharic with the equivalent English translation second. That was followed...
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'Emotional Reunion with My Mother. but We Were Unable to Understand Each Other's Language'
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), March 11, 2006
...old film-maker, of Connaught Road, Roath. She talked Amharic and I just nodded. They all thought I was dead. I cant describe...Newport and now Cardiff. And at the same time he lost his native Amharic language and his links to his homeland. His journey to rediscover...
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encyclopedia articles on: Amharic  - 8 results

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Amharic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AMHARIC amhar ik, language of Ethiopia belonging to the South...official tongue of Ethiopia since the 14th cent., Amharic is spoken by about 20 million people in that country. Amharic employs a modification of the Ethiopic script (see...
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Afroasiatic Languages
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ethiopia, such as classical Ethiopic or Geez, Tigre, Tigrinya, Amharic , and Harari. A Semitic language (or languages) was brought...and Tigrinya belong) and South Ethiopic (consisting of Amharic, Harari, Gurage, and others). The Berber Languages The...
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PÁez, Pedro
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...preached in Goa, India, was enslaved for seven years in Sana, Yemen, and in 1603 arrived in Ethiopia. He rapidly learned Amharic and converted the Ethiopian royal family from Coptic Christianity to Roman Catholicism...
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Name
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...name ( agnomen ) might be added as a nickname or honor, e.g., Africanus, for victory in Africa, in the case of Scipio. Amharic names are concatenations of the childs given name and the fathers given name. Native American names often referred to elements...
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Ethiopia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...were airlifted out in 1991. By the end of 1999 virtually all the Falashas who were practicing Jews had been flown to Israel. Amharic is the countrys official language, but a great many other languages are spoken, including Tigrinya, Oromo, Somali, and...
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