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FSI Amharic Basic Course - Volume 1 - Image This volume is the first of a two-volume US Foreign Service Institut Basic Course in Amharic, and contains Units 1-50 of the course.

Amharic, the official language of the Ethiopian Empire, is spoken natively by perhaps six million people in a small but populous area of the country which includes the capital, Addis Ababa. A member of the Southem Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, Amharic is steadily gaining importance as it picks up additional speakers through the spread of communications and education within Ethiopia.

You can find the remaining volume of the FSI Amharic course here: FSI - Amharic Basic Course - Volume 2
Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. It is the second-most spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Thus, it has official status and is used nationwide. Amharic is also the official or working language of several of the states within the federal system. It has been the working language of government, the military, and of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church throughout medieval and modern times. Outside Ethiopia, Amharic is the language of some 2.7 million emigrants. It is written using Amharic Fidel, which grew out of the Ge'ez abugida called, in Ethiopian Semitic languages.
Amharic is spoken in: Ethiopia
Amharic is also called: Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Amharic, Ethiopian, Falasha

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