Amhara

Amhara is the ethnicity of people in the central highlands of Ethiopia, constituating about 27% (15 milions) of the country's population. They speak Amharic language, which apartains to the South-western Semitic languages group. The predominant religion of them is Christianity.

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Africa Guide: Amhara

Non-Fiction Usage: Amhara

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Ethiopia	For example, the Amhara Development Association operates a project to provide vocational training to disabled war veterans in Bahir Dar. (references)
Civil Liberties	Ethiopia	Certain public school teachers in the SNNPR, Addis Ababa, and in the Amhara region objected to Muslim schoolgirls covering their heads with scarves while at school. (references)
	Ethiopia	Approximately 3,000 Feles Mora migrated voluntarily from the western Amhara region to Addis Ababa in 1991 at the time of "Operation Solomon," when a large number of Falashas were airlifted to Israel. (references)
Economic History	Ethiopia	Ethnic groups (est.): Oromo 35%, Amhara 30%, Tigre 6%-8%, Somali 6%. (references)
	Ethiopia	The Oromo, Amhara, and Tigreans make up more than three-fourths of the population, but there are more than 80 different ethnic groups within Ethiopia. (references)
Minorities	Ethiopia	Fighting between former drought victims from the Amhara region who had ressetled in the East Wellega zone of the Oromia region and the Oromos in the Gida Kiremu district resulted in the death of one Oromo police officer and several Amharas. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Amhara

"Amhara" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Amhara" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Expression: Amhara

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amhara

Anagrams: Amhara

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-h-m-r"
	-2 letters: amah, haar, harm, maar.
	-3 letters: aah, aha, ama, arm, ham, mar, rah, ram.
	-4 letters: aa, ah, am, ar, ha, hm, ma.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-h-m-r"
	+2 letters: amaranth, hamartia, maharaja, maharani.
	+3 letters: amaranths, hamadryad, hamartias, harmattan, maharajah, maharajas, maharanee, maharanis, marihuana.
	+4 letters: atheromata, charismata, hamadryads, harmattans, maharajahs, maharanees, marihuanas.
	+5 letters: amaranthine, hamadryades, matriarchal, prothalamia.
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