From: rh@rudhar.com

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:08:07 -0300: wugi  scribeva:
>> The "phi" part is /q/.
>
>The plosive k'. Though Translate pronounces it as an aspirated kh
>("akhum"), unlike in ??, k'ebe, butter.

Glottalized, I guess. Like in Georgian.

>>>    This script (Amharic  writing) is related to Greek ?
>>
>> Yes.

Nearly all scripts of the world are ultimately derived from
Phoenecian, and so to each other.

Except Armenian, Georgian, Chinese, etc.

>< Ge'ez script, which < Ancient South Arabian script (Arabia Felix,
>Hadramaut IIRC), which (like also the Phoenician script) < Proto-Sinaitic.
>
>>>          It looks a bit  like  Thai.
>>>
>>
>> Probably related to that, too.

Certainly.

>< Brahmi script, _possibly_ descended from or influenced by Phoenician
>(Aramaic) script, though others prefer to link it to the (yet
>undeciphered) Indus script.
>
>BTW Amharic is an abugida (a "CV" alphabet), a term taken from Ge'ez,
>the parent of Amharic. By P.T. Daniels, a fellow sci.langer at some time
>;) On suggestion by a Wolf Leslau, another interesting person, from
>reading wiki...

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