Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
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.
  
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Amharic-1.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
Halo
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
tschao
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Indonesia
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
Not Available
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
amharique
  
javanais
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
13th century
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Javanese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
All Amharic and Javanese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Amharic and Javanese dialects. Various dialects of Amharic and Javanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Amharic are spoken in different Amharic Speaking Countries whereas Javanese Dialects are spoken in different Javanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Amharic vs Javanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Amharic dialects include: Gondar, Gojjami. Javanese dialects include: Pekalongan , Cirebon. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Amharic and Javanese Speaking population
Amharic and Javanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Javanese languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Javanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Amharic and Javanese on Amharic vs Javanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Amharic and Javanese Language Codes
Amharic and Javanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Amharic and Javanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.