Chatting in English or Amharic

Amharic language - Tena Ystilign!

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February 15th 2009
(Lukas writing) Ethiopia has 80 different languages. The official language is Amharic. Ethiopia uses the Arabic alphabet so we can’t read it. It’s really hard to learn Amharic so we are mainly trying to learn how to speak the language. In school Vasara and Rytas are learning how to write the letters in Amharic, but for Amharic they don’t use letters for the alphabet, they use 2 sounds. Thei ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia » Addis Ababa Region » Addis Ababa

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Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... ... read more