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The twenty-second symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called Ž and is one of the least used groups in Amharic. There is no equivalent sound in English, but it sounds like “ZH”. Here is the table with the writing, pronunciation and 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
22-z1

žä (zhä)
nightmare
(k’äžät) nightmare
22-z2

žu (zhu)
 
22-z3

ži (zhi)
 
22-z4

ža (zha)
handle
(mäyaža) handle
22-z5

že (zhe)
 
22-z6

žï (zhï) (just ž (zh) at the end of a word)
tendon
(žïmatə) tendon
22-z7

žo (zho)
 

Also, the sound “zh” and the sound”wa” form the letter “zhwa” zhwa

Finally, the complete sequence in alphabetical order :
z-table

Next week, the letter Y.

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