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 ...

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 ...