Wiktionary:About Amharic

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This page deals with the specific issues of Amharic entries on Wiktionary.

Phonology

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The glottal stop, written as a character of either the series አ (ʼÄlf) or ዐ (ʽÄyn) should be:

  • Transcribed as /(ʔ)/ in initial position or when between two different vowels
    አረሰ (ʾarräsä) /ˈ(ʔ)arːəsə/
    ሰዓት (säʿat) /ˈsə(ʔ)at/
  • Transcribed as a simple /ʔ/ when occuring between two identical vowels
    ብዕር (bəʿər) /ˈbɨʔɨɾ/

Phonetic pronunciations should be provided with a label depicting the speaker's place of origin (for example, Addis Ababa).

Punctuation

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Affixes should be given with a combining hyphen (-). For suffixes starting with a vowel, the appropriate character of the ʼÄlf-series should be used:

-ኢያ (-iya) (using the vowel ኢ i)

Words should be separated by a word separator (፡) rather than a blank space, both in entry names as in usage notes:

ቤተ፡ክርስቲያን (betä krəstiyan), rather than *ቤተ ክርስቲያን (*betä krəstiyan)

Full stops should be given using the Ethiopic full stop (።).

Stress is penultimate for verbs and antepenultimate for all other parts of speech.

Roots

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Roots should be given using the -ä series characters separated by hyphens (-):

  • ሐ-መ-መ (ḥä-mä-mä) (rather than *ሕ-ም-ም (*ḥə-mə-mə))

In the etymology section, if present, or at the start of an entry, {{am root}} should be given when a term is traceable to a root.