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The twenty-seventh symbol of the Amharic alphabet is called T’ÄYT and it sounds like a letter T only that it should be pronounced with an explosion, with high stress, in the same way as the ninth symbol is. You should listen carefully to the examples since there is no equivalent in the English language. In dictionaries appears written as t’ or sometimes as a t with a dot underneath.
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 |
examples | |
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t’ä |
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 (t’äbäk’a) lawyer |
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t’u |
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 (t’unča) muscle |
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t’i |
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 (t’im) beard |
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t’a |
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 (t’at) finger |
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t’e |
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 (t’ena) health |
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t’ï (just t’ at the end of a word) |
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 (t’ïk’ur) black |
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t’o |
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 (t’or) army |
Also the combination of the sounds t’ and wa form an eighth
symbol or “t’wa” 
Finally, the complete sequence in alphabetical order :
Next week, the second letter CH’.
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