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The thirtieth symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called S’ÄDÄY and it sounds like an S but with an explosive sound. To learn how to pronounce it, you should listen to the examples below. It has the same sound than the next symbol 31-dappa1.
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.

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phonetics

how to write it
and say it

 examples
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s’ä
hair
(s’ägur) hair
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s’u
clean
(nïs’uh) clean
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s’i
sculptor
(k’ärats’i) sculptor
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s’a
baby
(hïs’an) baby
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s’e
 
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s’ï (just s’ of a word)
eyeglasses
(mänäs’s’ïr) eyeglasses
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s’o
fasting
(s’om) fasting

Also the combination of the sounds s’ and wa form an eighth
symbol or “s’wa” swa

Finally, the complete sequence in alphabetical order :
saday

Next week, the second letter S’.

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