In a bamboo and matting shelter on the edge of the town of Awassa, rows of tiny children are struggling with Ethiopia's fiendishly complicated Amharic alphabet. "Huh - HUH! Hoo - HOO! Hee - HEE! Ha - ...

Adding to the allure was a room dressed with columns painted with the Amharic alphabet and an unlikely location on H Street NE, when Shaw was where so much of the action awaited. Flash forward to ...

Ethiopian gospel music is often sung in Amharic. But because the Amharic alphabet is so different from the ones the Western world is used to, the language became a copypasta.