1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Ethiopia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Ethiopic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Selam
3.2 Thank You
amesege'nallo'
3.3 How Are You?
Dehina newot?
3.4 Good Night
Dehna dur
3.5 Good Evening
melkam meshe't
3.6 Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
3.7 Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
3.8 Please
i'bakwon
3.9 Sorry
aznallehu
3.10 Bye
tschao
3.11 I Love You
afekirishalehu
3.12 Excuse Me
yiqirta
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gondar
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gondar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Gojjami
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Showa
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
Rank: 44 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.37 %
Rank: 35 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
Rank: 23 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
5.3.4 French Name
amharique
5.3.5 German Name
Amharisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
5.5 Ethnicity
Amharas
6 History
6.1 Origin
13th century
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Semitic
6.2.2 Branch
Ethiopic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ge'ez
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Amharic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
am
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
amh
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
amh
7.3 ISO 639 3
amh
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
amha1245
7.6 Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional