Amharic Bible

A) What is going on in the photo?
a) In my photo I am reading text from an old small bible that was written in Amharic and produced and purchased in the state of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa.

B) How is it related to a specific human geography concept from current or previous units?

b) My photo relates to the specific human geography concept of language. The bible in the photo is written in Amharic which is a part of then Afro-Asiatic language family which is part of the Nostratic phylum. Amharic is also the second most spoken language in the Semitic language branch second to Arabic. The Amharic language has over 21.6 million speakers in Ethiopia. Languages that closely relate to Amharic are Tigrinya, and Orominia (Oromo in Amharic) which are spoken by other ethnic groups in Ethiopia.

C) Link the image to one of the 5 themes of human geography with an explanation of how it relates.
c) The image relates to the human geography theme of region because of the Amharic bible only being found in the Amharic speaking regions of Ethiopia

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