Young children in the Ethiopian town of Awassa are taught the complicated Amharic alphabet. BBC News Updated every minute of every day One-Minute World News ...

The Ethiopic script is used for Amharic — the national language of Ethiopia’s 70-million people. Ethiopia is the only African nation with its own alphabet that is still widely used.

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 - ...

The Ethiopian alphabet is a scary looking thing, full of squiggles, curls and lines. The letters look like dancing, running people with very little relationship to the familiar sounds of the ...

Holmstedt urged his students to carry a ringlet of flashcards so they can learn the alphabet on the go. “Walk around campus memorizing words instead of looking at your phone,” Holmstedt said. Gervers ...

For Dege Feder, the Amharic alphabet is more than a means of transferring thoughts into writing; it is a portal into a specific period in her past. “When I was about six years old,” explains ...