Sometimes people ask me how do I write certain Amharic word in Latin characters, and it’s hard to explain that there is no “right” way to do it. The process of converting Amharic characters to Latin characters is called transliteration. Transliteration is also applied to other languages like Chinese, or [...]

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Today I discovered a little app for the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad with the Amharic alphabet Feedel. It’s very basic, only has the characters with the sounds but no example of them used in words, no numbers, or help on how to write them. Children will probably [...]

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I already talked in a previous post about the basic structure of the sentence in Amharic and now is time to see how verbs are formed. Grammar is complicated because we need to consider many variables. These variables are gender (masculine/feminine), plural or singular, informal or formal, etc. To form the different combinations, suffixes and [...]

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Besides the symbols we already studied with their seven orders, there are special symbols for the combination of certain consonants and the sound “wa”.The “letters wa” are formed by adding an horizontal or vertical  line on top or under the simbol. This is the list of letters, and some of them have a variation in [...]

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