Amharic the national language of Ethiopia. There are about 30 million speakers of Amharic, mainly in North Central Ethiopia. Amharic is also spoken in a number of other countries, particularly in Eritrea, Egypt, Israel and Sweden.
Amharic is written with a version of the Ge'ez script known as ፊደል
(Fidel). There is no standard way to transliterating Amharic into the
Latin alphabet.