amharic

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Editorial note

Actually most Oromo people can speak, and many can read/write in Amharic as it's the dominant national language.

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A Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia.

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noun

A Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for amharic.

noun

A Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia.

Example sentences

Actually most Oromo people can speak, and many can read/write in Amharic as it's the dominant national language.

Why would these guys want to stamp out local cultures and replace them with the Amharic language?

Of course ethnic groups tend to use their language first and Amharic for more official matters.

You're reaching more kids and like another poster said, there's more resources and apps available in Amharic than Afaan Oromo.

Riddles in Amharic are difficult, require in-depth understanding of the language and are often used to test one's knowledge and reasoning skills.

After updating to iOS 18.4, Amharic was appended to the end of the list of preferred languages in the iPhone Settings app.

I find it curious that it available in amharic but not other much more widespread languages.

I don't think Amharic has a uvular ejective /q'/, nor the uvular stop or pharyngeal consonants.

So I don't really see what the problem with using Amharic and English is.

> the Youtube app on my iPhone somehow determined to change to Amharic Was this about 6 weeks ago?

I don't even now what Amharic is, let alone how it sounds...

So based on Enkokilish, we've made Enkokilish Bench to evaluate the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand, reason, and solve Amharic riddles.

Quote examples

If you want a two-language combo to “max out” the world’s rarities, add Zulu (or Xhosa) for clicks alongside Amharic.

So, "most people" in Ethiopia use a local language instead of Amharic.

What those text mean isn't too important, it can probably be "how to make flat breads" in Amharic or "what counts as drifting" in Finnish or something like that.

(Though, that's true for all the Afroasiatic languages including Amharic, Hebrew, and Hausa, but the FSI claims those are only "Level II" languages).

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I can give a perfect bad example: the Youtube app on my iPhone somehow determined to change to Amharic.

Enkokilish (እንቆቅልሽ) are Ethiopian/Amharic riddles.

Also, I don't know/speak Amharic, and so at the time had no idea what language it was, and the iPhone translate doesn't even recognize this Ethiopian language.