22 Facts About Amharic

Amharic is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.

Amharic is the most widely spoken language in Ethiopia, and the second most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia.

Amharic is the second largest Semitic language in the world.

Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Ge?ez script.

Amharic has been the official working language of Ethiopia, language of the courts, the language of trade and everyday communications and of the military since the late 12th century.

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Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Ge?ez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; Amharic is written in a slightly modified form of the alphabet used for writing the Ge?ez language.

In Washington DC, Amharic became one of the six non-English languages in the Language Access Act of 2004, which allows government services and education in Amharic.

Furthermore, Amharic is considered a holy language by the Rastafari religion and is widely used among its followers worldwide.

Amharic is a South Ethio-Semitic language, along with Gurage, Harari, and others.

Amharic thus developed with a Cushitic substratum and a Semitic superstratum.

Some time after the 9th century AD, Amharic diverged from its closest relative, Argobba, probably due to religious differences as the Argobba adopted Islam.

In 1983, Lionel Bender proposed that Amharic may have been constructed as a pidgin as early as the 4th century AD to enable communication between Aksumite soldiers speaking Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic languages, but this hypothesis has not garnered widespread acceptance.

Amharic script is an abugida, and the graphemes of the Amharic writing system are called fidal.

The Amharic script is included in Unicode, and glyphs are included in fonts available with major operating systems.

All Amharic verbs agree with their subjects; that is, the person, number, and gender of the subject of the verb are marked by suffixes or prefixes on the verb.

Amharic has special words that can be used to indicate the gender of people and animals.

Amsalu Aklilu has pointed out that Amharic has inherited a large number of old plural forms directly from Classical Ethiopic .

Amharic has various ways to derive nouns from other words or other nouns.

Adjectives in Amharic can be formed in several ways: they can be based on nominal patterns, or derived from nouns, verbs and other parts of speech.

Amharic is supported on most major Linux distributions, including Fedora and Ubuntu.

Amharic script is included in Unicode, in the Ethiopic block.

In February 2010, Microsoft released its Windows Vista operating system in Amharic, enabling Amharic speakers to use its operating system in their language.