Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
Hai
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
sila
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
maaf
  
Bye
tschao
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Not Available
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Not Available
  
French Name
amharique
  
malais
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Not Available
  
Origin
13th century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Amharic and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Malaysian language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Amharic vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.