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The thirty-second symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called ÄF and it sounds like a letter F.
|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
32-af1

horse
(färäs) horse
32-af2

fu

whistling
(fuč’ät) whistling
32-af3

fi

balloon
(fiñña) balloon
32-af4

fa

easter
(fasika) Easter
32-af5

fe

needle
(märfe) needle
32-af6

fï (just f of a word)

love
(fïk’ïr) love
32-af7

fo

towel
(fot’a) towel

Ademas la combinacion de los sonidos f y wa forman un octavo simbolo o “fwa”:fwa.

Finally, the complete sequence in alphabetical order :
af

Next week, the last symbol, or letter P.

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