| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | ɱ | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | p̪ | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | b̪ | d | ɡ | |||
| ejective | pʼ | p̪ʼ | tʼ | kʼ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃʼ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | f | s | ʃ | x | h |
| voiced | β* | v | z | ʒ | ɣ | ||
| Approximant | central | ɹ | j | w | |||
| lateral | l | ʎ | ʟ | ||||
| Rhotic | ʙ | ⱱ | r | ||||
| * – Only in loanwords | |||||||
The Amharic ejective consonants correspond to the Proto-Semitic "emphatic consonants", usually transcribed with a dot below the letter. The consonant and vowel tables give these symbols in parentheses where they differ from the standard IPA symbols.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ɨ (ə) | u |
| Mid-high | e | ə (ä) | o |
| Mid-low | ɛ | ɜ (y) | ɔ |
| Low | æ | a | ɒ (ʌ) |