From: rh@rudhar.com   
      
   Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:08:07 -0300: wugi  scribeva:   
   >> The "phi" part is /q/.   
   >   
   >The plosive k'. Though Translate pronounces it as an aspirated kh   
   >("akhum"), unlike in ??, k'ebe, butter.   
      
   Glottalized, I guess. Like in Georgian.   
      
   >>>    This script (Amharic  writing) is related to Greek ?   
   >>   
   >> Yes.   
      
   Nearly all scripts of the world are ultimately derived from   
   Phoenecian, and so to each other.   
      
   Except Armenian, Georgian, Chinese, etc.   
      
   >< Ge'ez script, which < Ancient South Arabian script (Arabia Felix,   
   >Hadramaut IIRC), which (like also the Phoenician script) < Proto-Sinaitic.   
   >   
   >>>          It looks a bit  like  Thai.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Probably related to that, too.   
      
   Certainly.   
      
   >< Brahmi script, _possibly_ descended from or influenced by Phoenician   
   >(Aramaic) script, though others prefer to link it to the (yet   
   >undeciphered) Indus script.   
   >   
   >BTW Amharic is an abugida (a "CV" alphabet), a term taken from Ge'ez,   
   >the parent of Amharic. By P.T. Daniels, a fellow sci.langer at some time   
   >;) On suggestion by a Wolf Leslau, another interesting person, from   
   >reading wiki...   
      
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