The photo above of lettering on a scarf is the local written language: Amharic. It is interesting to understand how the alphabet works. Each horizontal line on the first panel of the scarf is a consonant. But each consonant gets changed in shape when a different vowel is added. So the first letter U, when A is added to it looks like the second figure in the first line, when E is added, looks like the next, etc. So in a sense, Amharic has many letters, but on the other hand, an alphabet much like ours, but vowels are combined with consonants to make modified forms of the letter. That's about all I know about it so far. I do know the word "ishi" means "okay" and we hear that a lot.
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