Donations are not required but they’re always appreciated ? It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas and as a lingua franca by other populations residing in major cities and towns of Ethiopia. The writing system is called fidäl (ፊደል) in Ethiopian Semitic languages. There may be more than one gerund in one sentence. Not much has been published about Amharic dialect differences. Amharic (/æmˈhærɪk/[5][6][7] or /ɑːmˈhɑːrɪk/;[8] (Amharic: አማርኛ), Amarəñña, IPA: [amarɨɲːa] (listen)) is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.

Some morphophonological alternations occur depending on the final consonant or vowel. and እሳቸው ǝssaččäw 's/he (polite)'. house-FEM-DEF).

Learn how your comment data is processed. The study of rules governing the use of language. ityop̣p̣ya-(a)wi 'Ethiopian (m.)' vs. ityop̣p̣ya-wi-t 'Ethiopian (f.)'; sämay-awi 'heavenly (m.)' vs. sämay-awi-t 'heavenly (f.)'. Because the affixes that signal subject agreement vary greatly with the particular verb tense/aspect/mood, they are normally not considered to be pronouns and are discussed elsewhere in this article under verb conjugation.

Welcome to the 8th lesson about Amharic grammar.We will first learn about prepositions, negation, questions, adverbs, and pronouns including: personal, object and possessive pronouns. [18] Furthermore, Amharic is considered a holy language by the Rastafari religion and is widely used among its followers worldwide. [9] The title was believed to mean "give thanks"; however, this phrase means "he thanked" or "he praised", as säṭṭä means "he gave", and amässägänä "thanks" or "praise".

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The Amharic script is included in Unicode, and glyphs are included in fonts available with major operating systems. As in most other Ethiopian Semitic languages, gemination is contrastive in Amharic. Some nouns have this feminine marker without having a masculine opposite, e.g. BISAYA/TAGALOG TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION | BOBO EDITION | BISAYA. There are, however, also nouns having this -it suffix that are treated as masculine: säraw-it 'army', nägar-it 'big drum'.

Amharic verbs often have additional morphology that indicates the person, number, and (second- and third-person singular) gender of the object of the verb. Some nouns and adjectives take a feminine marker -it: lǝǧ 'child, boy' vs. lǝǧ-it 'girl'; bäg 'sheep, ram' vs. bäg-it 'ewe'; šǝmagǝlle 'senior, elder (m.)' vs. šǝmagǝll-it 'old woman'; t'ot'a 'monkey' vs. t'ot'-it 'monkey (f.)'. As in other Semitic languages, the same distinctions appear in three other places in their grammar…

All Amharic verbs agree with their subjects; that is, the person, number, and (in the second- and third-person singular) gender of the subject of the verb are marked by suffixes or prefixes on the verb. Lessons: English - Amharic.

[2] Additionally, 3 million emigrants outside of Ethiopia speak the language. [17][citation needed] In Washington DC, Amharic became one of the six non-English languages in the Language Access Act of 2004, which allows government services and education in Amharic. ), Amharic adds the independent pronouns to the preposition yä- 'of': የኔ yäne 'mine', ያንተ yantä 'yours m.

the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). A formal system defining a formal language. alfo alfo yǝsǝqall 'Sometimes he laughs'.