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Amharic WOW

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Amharic WOW

word of the week

H.E. Negash
Sep 30, 2020
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Amharic WOW

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You may be looking at me side-eyed once I tell you this week’s word. Amharic, like all other languages, has influences. Some of the influences are local Semitic and Cushitic languages. Some are Semitic, but more distant. Some are Greco, and due to religion and lingua franca status world wide. Some are modern and colonial, some are modern and status-base…

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