"Amharic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Languages: Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromigna, Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, other local languages, English (major foreign language ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... Amharic (official), Tigrinya, Orominga, Guaraginga, Somali, Arabic, English (major ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... Bunsen to ask his aid in getting the dictionary published. I think it may be of use, as adding one more known language in North Africa to those already accessible, which are, I believe, Arabic, Coptic, Gheez, and Amharic." ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking
... of numerous translations of Jewish, Greek and Arabic works, besides a valuable version of the Bible. (See ETHIOPIA.) The best modern representative of Geez is the Tigrina of Tigre and Lasta, which is much purer but less cultivated than the Amharic dialect, which is used in state documents, is current in the central and southern provinces and is much affected by Hamitic elements. All are written in a peculiar syllabic script which, un- like all other Semitic forms, runs from ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |
