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Hi guys, I don't know if I've ever posted here but I've been a member for months. I have a question or two about Semitic languages. First, I know Hebrew and Arabic are closely related, and I see that Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia, about 15 million speakers) is in the same Semitic subgroup, but it seems to me it doesn't share much in common with Hebrew or Arabic. So how closely related is Hebrew/Arabic to Amharic? Second, does Amharic follow the three-consonant system of Arabic and Hebrew (the way, for example, the root k-t-b means writing, and kitab is a book, and kataba is he wrote, and maktub is a library, etc. etc.)? Also, on a less serious note, Amharic script is REALLY PRETTY! Nathaniel