Corpus linguistics basically give more emphasis to collocation, frequency and corpus statistics. This study intends to investigate the frequency of Sounds in Amharic, to explore the unique linguistic features found in Amharic, and to assess the nature and characteristics of Amharic fields. Critical research paradigm was used in this study. To achieve the objectives of the study the researcher used elicitation and documents analysis as data gathering method. To briefly summarize the findings of the study, in terms of sound articulations the characteristics of all consonants in Amharic is the same except ? /ha/. In Amharic lexicons the frequency of the sixth sound or sad?s fidels is very high. More explicitly, in most basic or core vocabularies of Amharic the sixth or sad?s fidels are occur frequently 68.75 % in average. This indicate that, the frequency of the sixth sound or sad?s fidel in Amharic language is very high especially in basic or core vocabularies. The distribution of the sixth sound or sad?s fidel is might be at the first syllable or the last syllable. Therefore its distribution is not common. In other words, the sad?s sound may come at the beginning of word or middle of word or end of a lexicons. Orthographically speaking, single fidel or consonant can convey full text or message. For example: ? /na/ ‘come’, ? /ja/ ‘that’this can be considerd as the unique feature of the target language. In Amharic, it is very tough to get the sixth fidel followed by the long vowel. Therefore, in lexicon creativity and productivity linguists should consider the sixth fidel to create the non-existing lexicon in Amharic.

Author Name: Samuel Leykun

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Keywords: Corpus, fidel, Frequency, Amharic

ISSN: 2707-5060

EISSN: 2707-5052

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