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See also SoWL for K'ekchi, Avar, Lakhota, Navaho, Quechuan.
Amharic
IPA Handbook p. 45ff:
"Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia is the Semitic language with the
greatest number of speakers after Arabic."
Material
Contrasts of ejective with voiceless pulmonary consonant.
Note fricative (actually affricate) ejective in the alveolar series.
Graphic representation of velar ejective.