Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Amharic-1.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Selam
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
Not Available
  
Bye
tschao
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
Abkhazia
  
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
0.13 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
Not Available
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
amharique
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
13th century
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Abkhaz
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Amharic and Abkhaz Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Amharic and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Abkhaz language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Amharic vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Amharic and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.