Learn Amharic Alphabet Quick Tip - Amharic Fidel

Learn Amharic, by reading, writing & reciting the basic alphabet, which in the language is called the "Fidel" - ፊደል, or the "Fidelat" - ፊደላት (plural).

The Amharic is a language of many Ethiopian languages, classified as a Western Semitic (ie. Afro-Asiatic, Hamo/Afro-Semitic language, or Ethiopic) language; approx, 800-2000 years old. Amharic has an estimated 30 million to 50 million speakers, second only to the Arabic language, as a modern Semitic spoken language in linguistics. In a cluster of ancient languages and writing systems it stems from the Ge'ez, which is categorized as a South Semitic language, also commonly known as the "Ethiopic," predicted to be somewhere around 2000-3300 years old, utilized still in the Eritrean & Ethiopian Orthodox Christian churches. All of these yet in still, having more roots connecting them in a web or sorts to the ancient Sabaic, South Arabian/Ethiopic, Sayhadic or otherwise known as the old "Sabean, " with the majority of any other variants and similarities being found in the Hebrew, Phoenician, Koine Greek, Syriac, & the Egyptian Hieroglyphic (in many variations).