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Nigerien Filmmaker Rahmatou Keita strives to make the only alphabetic indigenous African language, Amharic, African Union (AU)’s language.
ፊልሟ ውስጥ አማርኛ ጽሑፍ በማስገባት ለአማርኛ ቋንቋ መቆርቋሯን አሳይታለች ኒዤሪያዊቷ
የፊልም ባለሞያ ራማቱ ኪየታ፤ አማርኛ የአፍሪቃ ኅብረት ይፋዊ ቋንቋ እስኪሆን ጥረቴን አላቋርጥም ትላለች።
ኒዤሪያዊቷ የፊልም ዳይሬክተር በዓለም ዙሪያ በሚገኙ የፊልም ፌስቲቫሎች ላይ በመሳተፍ ለአማርኛ ቋንቋ መሟገቷን
ቀጥላለች።
From Wikipedia online dictionary: Amharic (/æmˈhærɪk/[5][6][7] or /ɑːmˈhɑːrɪk/;[8] Amharic: አማርኛ, Amarəñña, IPA: [amarɨɲːa] (
listen)) is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Semitic branch and is a member of the Ethiosemitic group. It is spoken as a mother tongue by the Amhara and other populations residing in major cities and towns of Ethiopia.
The language serves as the official working language of Ethiopia, and
is also the official or working language of several of the states within
the federal system.[9] Amharic is the second-most widely spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic.It is written (left-to-right) using Amharic Fidel (ፊደል), which grew out of the Ge'ez abugida—called, in Ethiopian Semitic languages (ፊደል) fidel ("writing system", "letter", or "character") and (አቡጊዳ) abugida (from the first four Ethiopic letters, which gave rise to the modern linguistic term abugida).[10]
There is no agreed way of transliterating Amharic into Roman characters. The Amharic examples in the sections below use one system that is common, though not universal, among linguists specialising in Ethiopian Semitic languages.[11][citation needed]
Ge'ez script
Ge'ez (Ge'ez: ግዕዝ, Gəʿəz) (also known as Ethiopic) is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It originated as an abjad (consonant-only alphabet) and was first used to write Ge'ez, now the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. In Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is often called fidäl (ፊደል), meaning "script" or "alphabet".
The Ge'ez script has been adapted to write other, mostly Semitic, languages, particularly Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrinya in both Eritrea and Ethiopia. It is also used for Sebatbeit, Me'en, and most other languages of Ethiopia. In Eritrea it is used for Tigre, and it has traditionally been used for Blin, a Cushitic language. Tigre, spoken in western and northern Eritrea, is considered to resemble Ge'ez more than do the other derivative languages.[citation needed] Some other languages in the Horn of Africa, such as Oromo, used to be written using Ge'ez, but have migrated to Latin-based orthographies.
For the representation of sounds, this article uses a system that is common (though not universal) among linguists who work on Ethiopian Semitic languages. This differs somewhat from the conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet. See the articles on the individual languages for information on the pronunciation.
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