Amharic Language Materials Added to Silver Spring Library Collection

County Executive Ike Leggett (center) joined Montgomery County Public Libraries Director Parker Hamilton (left of Leggett) and members of the Ethiopian community to announce the addition of an Amharic language books and materials collection at the Silver Spring Library.

Included in the new collection will be children's and young readers’ stories and language learning materials, adult fiction and nonfiction, and a limited number of compact discs.

Amharic, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia, is the second-most spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic. According to the 2010 U.S. Census and 2011 American Community Survey, more than 58,000 of Montgomery County’s residents were born in Africa. Ethiopians make up the largest segment of the County’s African immigrants.

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