The Basic 33 letters to the Amharic - Afro Semitic language of Africa

Learn Amharic, by reading, writing & reciting the basic alphabet, which in the language is called the "Fidel" - ፊደል, or the "Fidelat" - ፊደላት (plural).

The Amharic is a language of many Ethiopian languages, classified as a Western Semitic (ie. Afro-Asiatic, Hamo/Afro-Semitic language, or Ethiopic) language; approx, 800-2000 years old. Amharic has an estimated 30 million to 50 million speakers, second only to the Arabic language, as a modern Semitic spoken language in linguistics. In a cluster of ancient languages and writing systems it stems from the Ge'ez, which is categorized as a South Semitic language, also commonly known as the "Ethiopic," predicted to be somewhere around 2000-3300 years old, utilized still in the Eritrean & Ethiopian Orthodox Christian churches. All of these yet in still, having more roots connecting them in a web or sorts to the ancient Sabaic, South Arabian/Ethiopic, Sayhadic or otherwise known as the old "Sabean, " with the majority of any other variants and similarities being found in the Hebrew, Phoenician, Koine Greek, Syriac, & the Egyptian Hieroglyphic (in many variations).

The Amharic literacy Program is an initiative started by the Lion of Judah Society, Inc., in partnership with Ras Tafari Renaissance/Valiancy Publishing, LLC. This program is a resurgence of the earlier Amharic teaching classes &, seminars given by the Ethiopian World Federation, Inc. (1937) founded in Harlem (Manhattan), New York, by Dr. Melaku E. Bayen.

The Ethiopian World Federation, Inc. (EWF) was an Imperial Ethiopian project & organization brought together after the support shown by Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American peoples took center stage during the second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1936. Whereas, Afro-Caribbean peoples especially from Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago, carried on a heavily spiritual/philosophical, historical & ideological side of support for Ethiopia (ie. Leonard P. Howell, H. Archibald Dunkley, & Joseph N. Hibbert) ; likewise, Afro-Americans brought a social, monetary, & physical support to the country. (ie. John C. Robinson, Rev. James Morris Webb, & Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford and, his wife Mignon Ford).

EWF, Inc. logo (1937 estbl.)