How to Use Amharic in a Sentence

Amharic

noun
  • Many of the children at the clinic come from families that speak Spanish, Amharic, and Somali – clinic staffers at the front desk help with translation.
    — Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Guelleh learned to speak several languages, including Somali, Amharic, Arabic, English, and French.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The celebration of Christ's resurrection, a core belief known as Fasika in Amharic, is observed a week after Catholic and Protestant Easter.
    — ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Local police inspector Ahmed Gebeyehu told BBC Amharic that those confirmed dead were aged between 25 and 80, and the death toll could increase, with many still trapped under the rubble.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The film, shot in color and black-and-white and featuring dialogue in both English and Amharic, will screen in the IDFA 2025 Competition for Short Documentary program.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
  • And people reporting such incidents, along with video and photos, can do so in one of 42 languages, including Swahili, Amharic, Pashto, Urdu, Tamil, Hmong, Nepali, Kinyarwanda, Telugu, Somali, Tigrinya, and many others.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2026
  • In 2023, Hizkias began speaking Amharic - Ethiopia's official language - regularly on her TikTok page and served as a keynote speaker at the Ethiopian-Eritrean Student Association Feast at Columbia University in 2024.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025

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