 The Amharic script is included in Unicode, and glyphs are included in fonts available with major operating systems.As in most other Ethiopian Semitic languages, gemination is contrastive in Amharic.That is, consonant length can distinguish words from one another; for example, "alä" 'he said', "allä" 'there is'; "yǝmätall" 'he hits', "yǝmmättall" 'he is hit'.