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The thirty-third symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called PSA and it sounds like a letter P. This symbol is used in words that are borrowed from other languages like “pineapple” or “Pepsi”.
|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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pä |
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pu |
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pi |
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 (pippa) smoking pipe |
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pa |
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 (pasta) pasta |
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pe |
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 (peru) Peru |
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pï (just p of a word) |
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 (plan) plan |
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po |
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 (polis) police |
Finally, the complete sequence in alphabetical order :
With this post we finish the 33 traditional symbols of the Amharic alphabet.
Next week, a post about the letter V.
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