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Learning the Ge’ez Alphabet

I came across the following 5 minute video introducing the Ge’ez alphabet for the Amharic language . Enjoy.

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1 Dr Bernard Leeman // Dec 28, 2009 at 3:24 am

I taught the Ge’ez alphabet in a London high school in 2002-3 as part of Religious Education so students could read parts of the Kebra Nagast. The Amharic alphabet contains more letters. An artist drew me pictures of the “A” sounds of the Ge’ez letters, for example BA was a picture of a BAr being bent and KA was represented by a person bowing in KArate, TA was a TArantula, ZA a traditional ZAmbian dancer, RA a RAttle snake etc. There is a very good course named “Teach Yourself Colloquial Amharic” by London University’s David Appleyard. I am making a audio-visual Ge’ez course in Ethiopia for Rastafarian studies, high schools, and the Queen of Sheba Univeristy Master’s degree in Biblical History and Archaeology. I hope to finish in June 2010.