Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
Myanmar
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Myanmar
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Mon
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Myanmar Language Commission
  
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Thai Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Pali Language
  
Alphabets in
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Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Bye
tschao
  
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Arakanese
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,000,000.00
  
24
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Tavoyan
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Myanmar
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
43.00 million
  
30
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
33.00 million
  
28
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
Not Available
  
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
French Name
amharique
  
birman
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Birmanisch
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Bamar people
  
Origin
13th century
  
1113 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Modern Burmese
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
my
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
mya
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
bur
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
mya
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
sout3159
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Amharic and Burmese 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 Burmese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Burmese language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Burmese word for "Thank You" is ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai). Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Burmese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Burmese Difficulty
The Amharic vs Burmese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic Alphabets and Burmese 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 Burmese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Burmese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Burmese time required is 44 weeks.