Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Ethiopia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Not Available
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Not Available
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Selam
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
i'bakwon
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
aznallehu
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
tschao
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Gondar
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Gojjami
Olonets
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Olonets
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Novgorod
Native Name
Not Available
Русский
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Russki
French Name
amharique
russe
German Name
Amharisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Russians
Origin
13th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
amha1245
russ1263
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic
Amharic and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Amharic and Russian language. Amharic word for "Hello" is Selam or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Amharic Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Amharic vs Russian Difficulty
The Amharic vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Amharic Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Amharic and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Amharic is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.