አማርኛ (Amharic)
Ethiopia's official language, in its own script
Amharic is a Semitic language — in the same family as Arabic and Hebrew — and the official working language of Ethiopia, spoken by tens of millions of people as a first or second language. It's the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic, and it carries its own writing system rather than borrowing Latin or Arabic script.
Writing system
What counts as correct
Amharic is written in the Ge'ez script (also called Fidel), an abugida where each character represents a consonant-vowel pair rather than a single letter — closer in concept to Chinese characters than to the Latin alphabet in how much a single mistaken glyph can change. Getting the right character, in the right order within the syllabary, is what makes Amharic text legible rather than garbled.
Why it matters
Precision, not approximation
Because Ge'ez characters carry both consonant and vowel information at once, a wrong glyph isn't a typo — it's a different sound entirely. Itumo checks that every character in an Amharic translation is the correct one for its position, not just visually similar.
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