Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Ethiopic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Selam
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
amesege'nallo'
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Dehina newot?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
Dehna dur
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
melkam meshe't
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
i'ndemin walu
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
i'ndemin adäru
  
Please
Please
  
i'bakwon
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
aznallehu
  
Bye
Bye
  
tschao
  
I Love You
I love you
  
afekirishalehu
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
yiqirta
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Gondar
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Gondar
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
Gojjami
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Ethiopia
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Showa
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Ethiopia
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
18.70 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
English
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
French Name
anglais
  
amharique
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Amharisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Amharas
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Ethiopic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Ge'ez
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Amharic
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Signed Amharic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
am
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
amh
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
amh
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
amh
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
amha1245
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
12-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Fusional