Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
India
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
NA
  
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.
  
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Bengali Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Selam
  
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Bye
tschao
  
બાય (Bāya)
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Kathiyawadi
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Kharwa
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
50.00 million
  
22
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
Not Available
  
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
French Name
amharique
  
goudjrati
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Gujaratis
  
Origin
13th century
  
15
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
Old Gujarati
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Modern Gujarati
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
gu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
guj
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
guj
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
guj
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
guja1252
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Amharic and Gujarati 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 Gujarati greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Gujarati language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Gujarati word for "Thank You" is ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad). Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Gujarati Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Gujarati Difficulty
The Amharic vs Gujarati difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic Alphabets and Gujarati 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 Gujarati are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Gujarati, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Gujarati time required is 18 weeks.