Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Ethiopia
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Ethiopic
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Selam
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Dehna dur
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
i'bakwon
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
aznallehu
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
tschao
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
afekirishalehu
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
yiqirta
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Gondar
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Gondar
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Gojjami
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Showa
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Not Available
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
amharique
  
népalais
  
German Name
Amharisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Amharas
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
13th century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Ethiopic
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ge'ez
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Amharic
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
am
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
amh
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
amh
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
amh
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
amha1245
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Amharic and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Nepali language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Nepali Difficulty
The Amharic vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.