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The sixth symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called RÏS and its pronunciation is like a letter R. The printed letter looks to me like a drawing of the profile of a nose :). The handwritten letter looks more like a uppercase L but with the angle rounded. It’s the only R in Feedel.

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
	rä		(rädda) help, assist
	ru		(ruz) rice
	ri		(riz) beard, mustache, whiskers
	ra		(ras) head
	re		(resa) cadaver
	rï (just r at the end of a word)		(rïkkash) cheap   (mïssïr) lenteja
	ro		(rot’ä) run

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

Finally all the sequence in alphabetical order :

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

Next week, the second and most used letter S.

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