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This post is brought to you by the letter: 20-ayn1

The twentieth symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called ÄYN and it sounds like the sound an open “a”. All the orders sound just as those of the sixteenth symbol.
Here is the table with the printed letter, handwritten letter and pronunciation, and just a few examples. 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
20-ayn1

a
arab
(aräb) Arab
20-ayn2

u
 
20-ayn3

i
 
20-ayn4

a
world
(aläm) world, planet
20-ayn5

e
 
20-ayn6

ï
rest
(ïräft) rest, vacation
20-ayn7

o
 

Finally, the complete sequence in alphabetical order :
ayn

Next week, the letter Z.

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