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The eighteenth symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called H and it sounds like the sound "h" in English. Its pronunciation is also similar to that of the previous H of the Amharic language: hoy1,hawt1,13-harm1with the difference that the first order of this symbol uses the vowel "ä", that is to say the only way to make the combination "h"+"ä" is with the symbol 18-h1.The printed and handwritten letters are similar. I’m only going to show a couple of examples.
Here is the table with the printed letter, handwritten letter and pronunciation, and a few examples. The animations were made according to the instructions in the book Writing and Reading Amharic and the sounds are from the site Amharic Online. Phonetic symbols according to David Appleyard.

print
phonetics
how to write it
and say it
examples
18-h1
choha
(č’ohä) to scream
18-h2
hu
 
18-h3
hi
 
18-h4
ha
 
18-h5
he
yehe
(yïhe) this
18-h6
hï (just h at the end of a word)
 
18-h7
ho
 

Finally, the complete sequence in alphabetical order :
h 

Next week, the letter W.

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