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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

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

33
Rank: 15 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

7
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

31
Rank: 21 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Ethiopic

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
Cebuano
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)
Macedonian
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)
Dzongkha
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)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

5
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

18.70 million
Rank: 44 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.37 %
Rank: 35 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

10.00 million
Rank: 23 (Overall)
Finnish
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

55
Rank: 40 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

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

Origin of Amharic language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Amharic language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Amharic language states that it was put to use in 13th century. The history of Amharic language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Amharic Language History.The evolution of Amharic language began with early forms such as Ge'ez. Amharic is the standard form of Amharic language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Amharic Language.

Amharic population

Amharic population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Amharic language. Amharic language is spoken by 18.70 million people in the world. Most of the Amharic population lies in the Amharic Speaking Countries. Amharic language is spoken as first language by 25.00 million people and as second language by about 10.00 million people. Get to know Amharic speaking population in detail.

Amharic writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Amharic writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Amharic language. Some languages share common writing systems. Ethiopic script is used by Amharic language. Learn more about . 

Information about Amharic language

Check out all the information about Amharic language here. You may find it interesting to learn Amharic Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Amharic Speaking Countries, Amharic speaking continents and Amharic Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Amharic countries knowing common Amharic Greetings will help you in communicating with Amharic people.