{"id":218716,"date":"2013-08-08T03:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T07:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=218716"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:48:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:48:59","slug":"amharic-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/218716","title":{"rendered":"Amharic alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/ethiomereja.com\/type-amharic\/\" title=\"Type Amharic online\">here to type<\/a> in Amharic, Tigrigna, or Ge&#8217;ez.<br \/>\nAmharic (Amharic: \u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b, IPA: [amar\u0268\u0272\u02d0a]) the national language of Ethiopia. It is the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic. It is estimated that Amharic is spoken by over 60 million people inside Ethiopia and a number of other countries, particularly in Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Egypt, Israel, and United States. Amharic is written using Amharic alphabet named fidel (\u134a\u12f0\u120d) that grew out of the Ge&#8217;ez (\u130d\u12d5\u12dd) writing system.<\/p>\n<h2>The Ge&#8217;ez-based Amharic Alphabet &#8211; Fidel (\u134a\u12f0\u120d)<\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script for Amharic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopianreview.com\/ethiopia\/amharic-alphabets_files\/ethiopic1.gif?resize=589%2C389\" width=\"589\" height=\"389\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script for Amharic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopianreview.com\/ethiopia\/amharic-alphabets_files\/ethiopic2.gif?resize=588%2C389\" width=\"588\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Punctuation<\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ethiopic punctuation\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopianreview.com\/ethiopia\/amharic-alphabets_files\/ethiopic_punc.gif?resize=583%2C67\" width=\"583\" height=\"67\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Numerals<\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ethiopic numerals\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethiopianreview.com\/ethiopia\/amharic-alphabets_files\/ethiopic_num.gif?resize=537%2C101\" width=\"537\" height=\"101\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to type in Amharic, Tigrigna, or Ge&#8217;ez. Amharic (Amharic: \u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b, IPA: [amar\u0268\u0272\u02d0a]) the national language of Ethiopia. It is the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic. It is estimated that Amharic is spoken by over 60 million people inside Ethiopia and a number of other countries, particularly in Eritrea, Djibouti, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[349,350,354,356,1764,1804,1808,2042,2044,2052],"class_list":["post-218716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-amharic-alphabet","tag-amharic-alphabets","tag-amharic-geez","tag-amharic-numbers","tag-ethiopian-alphabet-online","tag-ethiopian-fidel-alphabet","tag-ethiopian-geez","tag-ge-ez-alphabet","tag-geez-alphabeet","tag-geez-alphabets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-UTG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264056,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218716\/revisions\/264056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}