Wiktionary:About Amharic

This page deals with the specific issues of Amharic entries on Wiktionary.

Phonology
The glottal stop, written as a character of either the series አ (ʼÄlf) or ዐ (ʽÄyn) should be:
 * Transcribed as in initial position or when between two different vowels
 * Transcribed as a simple when occuring between two identical vowels
 * Transcribed as a simple when occuring between two identical vowels
 * Transcribed as a simple when occuring between two identical vowels

Phonetic pronunciations should be provided with a label depicting the speaker's place of origin (for example, Addis Ababa).

Punctuation
Affixes should be given with a combining hyphen (-). For suffixes starting with a vowel, the appropriate character of the ʼÄlf-series should be used:
 * (using the vowel ኢ i)

Words should be separated by a word separator (፡) rather than a blank space, both in entry names as in usage notes:
 * , rather than *

Full stops should be given using the Ethiopic full stop (።).

Stress is penultimate for verbs and antepenultimate for all other parts of speech.

Roots
Roots should be given using the -ä series characters separated by hyphens (-): In the etymology section, if present, or at the start of an entry, am root should be given when a term is traceable to a root.
 * (rather than )