1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
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Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Ngiyabonga
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
melkam meshe't
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
afekirishalehu
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gondar
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Gojjami
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
18.70 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
10.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology