In a bamboo and matting shelter on the edge of the town of Awassa, rows of tiny children are struggling with Ethiopia's fiendishly complicated Amharic alphabet. "Huh - HUH! Hoo - HOO! Hee - HEE! Ha - ...

They say that Amharic is a difficult language to learn. So I'm off to a Language School to have my first Amharic lesson. As a linguist I feel as if I should be able to understand why learning Amharic ...

Ethiopian artist Wosene Worke Kosrof explores the aesthetic potential of symbols from the Amharic script. He began distorting the symbols of his language 35 years ago and it is now an integral part of ...

A new range of mobile phones has just gone on sale in Ethiopia, with the onscreen menu in Amharic, and the ability to send SMS text messages in the Ge'ez script - used for Amharic and other languages ...