UN · 1967
Romanization of Amharic -- UNGEGN (2016)
un-amh-Ethi-Latn-2016 The United Nations recommended romanization system was approved in 1967 (resolution I/17), based on the Amharic to English Transliteration System (2nd revised edition, August 1962) by the Imperial Ethiopian Mapping and Geography Institute. The table has been published in volume II of the conference report (see Ref. in Notes section). The UN-approved system is not being used in Ethiopia, instead a simple version without diacritical marks is used. In international cartographic products mostly the BGN/PCGN 1967 system is used which differs from the former mainly by using diacritical marks differently. Often the same spellings are used without any diacritical marks. Amharic uses the Ethiopic syllabic script whereby each syllable denotes a combination of a consonant and a vowel. It has 34 basic characters, each character having several different forms, usually called orders, according to the vowel with which the basic character is combined. The system is mainly reversible with the exception of some syllables of the 1st order which are pronounced in the same manner as the syllables of the 4th order, and some consonants.
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የዜግነት ክብር በ ኢትዮጵያችን ጸንቶ
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Ye̠zegi̠ne̠ti̠ Ki̠bi̠ri̠ Be̠ Iti̠yop’i̠yachi̠ni̠ Ts’e̠ni̠to
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