Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
Hello
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
Good Morning
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
Please
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
Sorry
  
Bye
tschao
  
Bye
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
1,200.00 million
  
1
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
Not Available
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Not Available
  
French Name
amharique
  
anglais
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th century
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Standard English
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic