Initia Amharica: An Introduction to spoken Amharic, Part I by C.H. Armbruster

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By C.H. Armbruster

Amharic is the language most generally spoken and written in Abyssinia at present day. it's indigenous not just in Amhara, the district from which the identify is taken, yet over the larger a part of critical Abyssinia. As a language of trade it truly is heard past the bounds of Abyssinia right. significant dialects are distinctive, that of Gojjam and that of Shoa (from the introduction). Contents: Phonetic alphabet, the Amharic characters, punctuation, doubling consonants, crasis or contraction of adjoining vowels, considerable, the Ethiopic accusative, pronouns, numerals, primitive and derived different types of the verb, voice, temper, stressful, contingent, jussive, paradigms of derived different types of the verb, syntax, and so forth. (Re-edition; initially released 1908 in Cambridge; written in English) ISBN 9783862901494. LINCOM Gramatica 109. 422pp. 2011.

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First ; such hearing : : ; ; ;; Phonology. ] An 25 exhaustive treatment of the subject of varia- would be beyond the scope of this work but the following instances will give some indication of its nature and the extent of its pretion in pronunciation ; valence. Vowels. g. J&U ! i -^ are commonly pronounced short 8) (§ matta, he came, usually matta: ^aof^ i 'lOh yihe yamattd nau, this :: is he who came. But they often remain short even when accented, unless the accent is received from an enclitic and a ; generally remains short in au, ai.

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