aspell-am software package provides Amharic dictionary for aspell, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install aspell-am
aspell-am is installed in your system.
Make ensure the aspell-am package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep aspell-am *
You will get with aspell-am package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | aspell-am |
| Version | 0.03-1-5 |
| Description | Amharic dictionary for aspell |
| Sub Section | text |