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Amharic (〔Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student's Handbook'', Edinburgh; ''Collins English Dictionary'' (2003), ''Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary'' (2010)〕 or ; 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. 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 the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church throughout medieval and modern times. The 2007 census counted nearly 22 million native speakers in Ethiopia.〔()〕 Outside Ethiopia, Amharic is the language of some 2.7 million emigrants. It is written (left-to-right) using Amharic Fidel, , which grew out of the Ge'ez abugida—called, in Ethiopian Semitic languages, ''fidel'' ("writing system", "letter", or "character") and ''abugida'' (from the first four Ethiopic letters, which gave rise to the modern linguistic term ''abugida''). There is no agreed way of transliterating Amharic into Roman characters. The Amharic examples in the sections below use one system that is common, though not universal, among linguists specializing in Ethiopian Semitic languages. == Phonology == * The Amharic ejective consonants correspond to the Proto-Semitic "emphatic consonants", usually transcribed with a dot below the letter. The consonant and vowel tables give these symbols in parentheses where they differ from the standard IPA symbols. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amharic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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