Author : THOMAS L, KANE
..Attempts made in the past to write in the vernacular languages of Ethiopia
specifically Amharic in the Christian North and Harari in the Muslim
Southeast (5′, came to nothing, the Ethiopian’s innate conservatism, scribal
opposition and the religious prestige of the liturgical languages, Geez for
the Christians and Arabic for the Muslims, apparently having stifled this
tendency….more