Editing Amharic (section)

== Dialects ==
Not much has been published about Amharic dialect differences. All dialects are [[mutually intelligible]], but certain minor variations are noted.<ref>{{cite book |last=Tefera |first=Anbessa |title=The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel, Studies on the Ethiopian Jews |publisher=Curzon Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-7007-1092-2 |editor-last=Parfitt |editor-first=T. |location=London |pages=257–263 |chapter=Differences Between the Amharic Dialects of Gondär and Addis Abäba |editor2-last=Semi |editor2-first=E. Trevisan}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aklilu |first1=Amsalu |last2=Marcos |first2=Habte Mariam |year=1973 |title=The dialect of Wällo |journal=Journal of Ethiopian Studies |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=124–29 |jstor=41988260}}</ref>

=== Jewish Amharic ===
The [[Beta Israel]] who today live mostly in Israel speak a dialect of Amharic called Jewish Amharic ({{Langx|he|אמהרית מעוברת|links=no|rtl=yes}}). It replaced many Christian phrases with Jewish ones. One example is the replacing the phrase "It is good that Mary had pardoned you" with "It is good that God has relieved you peacefully"; these phrases are used to congratulate a mother on successful childbirth. Another example is calling a type of grasshopper "Moses's horses" instead of "Mary's horses".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Jewish Ethiopian |url=https://www.jewishlanguages.org/jewish-ethiopian |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Jewish Languages |language=en}}</ref> This variety also contains influence from [[Modern Hebrew]] due to the large Beta Israel presence in Israel. Currently Jewish Amharic is declining as the Beta Israel gradually abandon Amharic in favor of Hebrew.<ref name=":1" />