Saturday, August 13, 2011

English-Amharic Dictionary Android App is Released

 English-Amharic and Amharic-English Abridged Dictionary

ከእንግሊዘኛ ወደ አማርኛ እና ከአማርኛ ወደ እንግሊዘኛ መተርጎሚያ አጭር መዝገበ ቃላት




The English-Amharic and Amharic-English Bridged Dictionary Android App is developed by Fasika MobApper and It is in version 3 now. The version changes involved adjustment to accessibility of to wider set of device and removing requirement for network access.  

The English-Amharic dictionary contains words and phrases that are very helpful for basic Amharic understanding and building knowledge of essential verbs, adjectives and adverbs in Amharic. 

The English-Amharic-English (eAe) Abridged Dictionary has 2000 words and phrases, more than 200 dialogue entries.

The words and phrases in the dictionary are organized in two sets of categories. The category groupings are Grammatical Usage categories and Words Context categories. These category sets are identified based on their importance to the ease of learning the words and phrases in the dictionary.  In the words and phrases database, there are, among others, 337 verbs, 1276 nouns, 18 pronouns, 45 adverbs and 179 adjectives.

The dictionary is also searchable by alphabet letter, word or phrase. The search function gives options of specifying the search target, i.e. weather to search words and phrases database or dialogues/conversations database.



As a very crucial foundation of the dictionary usage and words reading, the dictionary includes Ethiopic/Amharic letters with audio on how the sounds represented by the symbols are read. The Ethiopic characters include both regular and irregular types and all letters commonly used in Amharic are included.



This dictionary is very valuable to travelers, none-native parents who adopted Ethiopian kids, Ethiopian kids that grew abroad, non-Amharic speakers that interact/like to interact with Ethiopian friends, colleagues or long distance pals.




To read more, please visit Android Market.

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