Language Overview: Amharic

ስለ እርዳታዋ ሰላም አመሰግናለሁ! Links: IPA video: https://youtu.be/eFRU_3azxP0?si=nB65qGaD1o00J0A6 Google Translate video (timed to Amharic): https://youtu.be/MKK3GHpQ9VM?si=wM_bfvKXNQNDujbm&t=273 Predictions about the future of several languages (timed to Amharic): https://youtu.be/0vh-Y9M8Gsw?si=3foQNiuFDFHur7Ye&t=848 The paper about the Amharic gender shift: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/rtk8/Gender%20in%20Amharic.pdf Predicting Future American (regularization is toward the end): https://youtu.be/F2Jw2ILRBVk?si=gJezMAxoAmQU5R_r Language Overview: Arabic https://youtu.be/GDPC65IzfO8?si=lU2Gm1LxhQMEzkAl Language Overview: Hebrew https://youtu.be/-_7K2UBwTzs?si=h3oAvJPu3j8qPcTl Translations: 0:03: Me when I can talk about a non-European language 1:12: “You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.” 1:29: “Help me and I’ll give y’all power” 1:35: “Thanks” 1:50: (Keanu Reeves) Ethiopia; (bullets) European countries 3:10: Thinking about the [t͡s] missing from Amharic 4:29: “What’s stress?” “Idk” 4:49: When the Semitic language doesn’t use an abjad 4:58: (Hebrew) Here I’m adding dots; (Arabic) just because I can; (Aramaic) and to show a concept 5:02: (Backwards Amharic without vowels) In the past, this wasn’t an abugida 8:49: where gemination 8:51: When the writing doesn’t show gemination 9:42: Finally, there’s another Semitic feature in Amharic 12:41: “LIAR!” 15:10: When speakers of other Semitic languages see Amharic numbers; (Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic) “WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE??” 16:40: “Why is it that, when something happens, it’s always you three?”; *First rootletter*; *second rootletter*; *third rootletter* 20:51: When he explains the subjunctive clauses before the main clauses 23:10: “Barnacles, what could be worse than a huge past tense?!”; “I know!”; “Two past tenses!” 23:51: (Left) Imperative; (Right) Jussive 28:38: Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali, Oromo, Afar, Argobba