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Qalat

Games and stories in Tigrinya and Amharic

Word puzzles in the Ge'ez script, the board game Gebeta, and children's stories that put your kid in the tale. Free to play in your browser, with apps for iOS and Android.

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ቃላት (qalat) means “words” in Tigrinya and Amharic.

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  • Link Fidel syllables to find Tigrinya words. A new puzzle every day.Tigrinya  /  Web, Android, iOS

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  • Qal Scramble
    ቃላት

    Unscramble Tigrinya and Amharic words against the clock, with clues when you need them.Tigrinya, Amharic  /  Web, iOS, Android

    Play
  • Gebeta
    ገበጣ

    The sowing game carved into Aksumite stone. Play the computer or a live opponent.Amharic, Tigrinya  /  Web, iOS, Android

    Play
  • Zanta
    ዛንታ

    Illustrated stories where your child is the hero, narrated in four languages.Tigrinya, Amharic, Oromo  /  Web, iOS, Android

    Open

Try the script

Ge'ez is an abugida: every character is a consonant and a vowel together. Rebuild a word from its syllables, or see how one consonant changes shape across the seven vowel orders.

Build the word

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Words & Languages — The Qalat Studio Eponym

Tap the tiles in order. Tap a placed tile to take it back.

Play the full game in Qal Scramble

The seven orders

The Qaf family, ቃፍ

ራብዕ, order 4, said /qa/

As in ቓል, word / promise (qalat)

Right leg elongated with outward hook

Everything we make

Games you can play today, and the language tools we're building next. Unreleased work is drawn in outline.

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Qal Connect

ቓል

Connect Ge'ez syllables to unveil authentic Tigrinya words, build daily streaks, and discover rich cultural definitions in a sleek, dark-mode puzzle experience.

Tigrinya
Web, Android, iOS

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Live

Qal Scramble

ቃላት

Unscramble Ge'ez syllables against the clock, learn definitions on the fly, and master both Tigrinya and Amharic through high-energy puzzle gameplay.

Tigrinya, Amharic
Web, iOS, Android

Play
Live

Gebeta

ገበጣ

Master the millennia-old sowing strategy game with real-time online matchmaking, intelligent AI opponents, interactive lessons, and authentic regional variants.

Amharic, Tigrinya
Web, iOS, Android

Play
Live

Zanta

ዛንታ

Make your child the hero of their own cultural adventures with personalized bedtime stories, rich illustrations, and synchronized audio narration on iOS, Android & Web.

Tigrinya, Amharic, Oromo
Web, iOS, Android

Open
Coming soon

Qal Lexicon

መዝገበቃላት

A modern dictionary, linguistic soundboard, and root-tracing tool for Tigrinya, Amharic, and classical Ge'ez with offline-first indexing.

Tigrinya, Amharic, Ge'ez
Web, iOS, Android, macOS

Coming soon

Ge'ez Flow Studio

ፊደልፍሰት

Empowering creators and developers with smart phonetic typing, instant Latin-to-Ge'ez transliteration, font testing, and SVG calligraphy exports.

Ge'ez, Tigrinya, Amharic
Web, macOS, Windows

Coming soon

Fidel Kids & Fables

ቆልዑንተረትን

Immersive illustrated Horn of Africa folklore, playful touch-and-trace Fidel letter mechanics, and dual-language narration for children worldwide.

Tigrinya, Amharic
iOS, Android, Web

In the workshop

A dictionary, a Ge'ez keyboard and a reading app for young children. Leave your email and we'll tell you when each one is ready to try.

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Building something for Horn of Africa languages? We list work by other developers and linguists too. Write to us at hello@qalat.app.

  • Qal Lexicon

    Language & Linguistics

    A modern dictionary, linguistic soundboard, and root-tracing tool for Tigrinya, Amharic, and classical Ge'ez with offline-first indexing.

  • Ge'ez Flow Studio

    Utilities & Tools

    Empowering creators and developers with smart phonetic typing, instant Latin-to-Ge'ez transliteration, font testing, and SVG calligraphy exports.

  • Fidel Kids & Fables

    Kids & Education

    Immersive illustrated Horn of Africa folklore, playful touch-and-trace Fidel letter mechanics, and dual-language narration for children worldwide.

Why we build this

Gebeta boards are cut into stone at Aksum. Ge'ez has been written for more than fifteen centuries. Yet the apps children open every day almost never speak Tigrinya or Amharic.

Qalat makes games and tools that are as good as anything else on the phone, in the languages families actually use at home.

Checked words
Every word in Qal Connect and Qal Scramble is checked against published dictionaries, with room for the way people actually spell and speak.
No paywall to play
The games open in any browser on any phone. No paywalls, and no dark patterns to keep you tapping.
Made for families apart
Much of our audience is the diaspora: parents and grandparents passing a language to kids who hear it less every year.