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The seventh symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called SAT and its pronunciation is like a letter S. The printed letter and its handwritten version look the same, it’s like an inverted letter U with a small vertical line on the top. This is the second and most use S in Feedel. Has the same sound and pronunciation than.

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 form the site Amharic Online. Phonetic according to David Appleyard.

print	phonetics	how to write it and say it	examples
	sä		(säm) wax
	su		(suk) shop
	si		(sini) small cup
	sa		(samba) lung
	se		(set) woman
	sï (just s at the end of a word)		(sïlk) telephone (kämis) woman’s dress
	so		(sofa) sofa

Again as in previous symbols, the combination of the sound "s" and the sound "wa" forms an eighth order: (swa)

Finally the complete sequence in alphabetical order :

Here is the quiz for the seventh letter of the alphabet:

Next week, the letter SH.

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