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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
14
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Ethiopia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3324
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
75
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
3121
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Ethiopic
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
33
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Selam
Habari
3.2 Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Asante
3.3 How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
Dehna dur
Usiku mwema
3.5 Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
i'bakwon
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
aznallehu
pole
3.10 Bye
tschao
bye
3.11 I Love You
afekirishalehu
nakupenda
3.12 Excuse Me
yiqirta
Samahani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gondar
Kiunguja
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gondar
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Gojjami
Kimrima
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Dar es Salaam
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Showa
Kimgao
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Kilwa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
512
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
18.70 million150.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.37 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million15.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 millionNA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
amharique
swahili
5.3.5 German Name
Amharisch
Swahili
5.4 Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Amharas
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
13th century
6th century
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Semitic
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Ethiopic
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Amharic
Swahili
6.3.3 Language Position
55NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
am
sw
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
amh
swa
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
amh
swa
7.3 ISO 639 3
amh
swa
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
amha1245
swah1254
7.6 Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
99-AUS-m
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Not Available

Amharic and Swahili Alphabets

Amharic and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Amharic and Swahili. In Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Amharic and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Amharic and Swahili languages. The Amharic phonology consist Amharic vowels and Amharic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Amharic greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Amharic and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Amharic and Swahili 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 Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Amharic and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Amharic are spoken in different Amharic Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Amharic vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Amharic dialects include: Gondar, Gojjami. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Amharic and Swahili Speaking population

Amharic and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. 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 Swahili on Amharic vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Amharic and Swahili Language Codes

Amharic and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Amharic and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.