WIKITONGUES: Semere speaking Amharic

This video was recorded by Elise Lieberman and features Amharic speaker Semere. Amharic was spoken in Ethiopia by 21,600,000 speakers as of 2007 and is part of the Ethiopian subgrouping of Semitic languages within the Afro-Asiatic language family. Amharic is the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic. Amharic is written in Fidäl, a script based on the Ge’ez system. The first four symbols of Fidäl can be condensed to the word abugida, which became the linguistic term to describe