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The twenty-fourth symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called DÄNT and it sounds just like a letter D.  Here is the table with the writing, pronunciation and 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
24-dant1

dä
letter
(däbdabbe) letter
24-dant2

du
forest
(dur) forest
24-dant3

di
one
(andit) one
24-dant4

da
judge
(daña) judge
24-dant5

de
once
(ande) once
24-dant6

dï (just d at the end of a word)
cat
(dïmätï) catman
(wänd) man
24-dant7

do
chicken
(doro) chicken

Also the combination of the sounds d and wa form an eighth
symbol or “dwa” dwa

Finally, the complete sequence in alphabetical order :
dant

Next week, the letter J.

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