Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
  
National Language
France
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
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
bonjour
  
Selam
  
Thank You
Merci
  
amesege'nallo'
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Dehina newot?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Dehna dur
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
melkam meshe't
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
i'ndemin walu
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
i'ndemin adäru
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
i'bakwon
  
Sorry
désolé
  
aznallehu
  
Bye
au revoir
  
tschao
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
afekirishalehu
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
yiqirta
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Gondar
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Gondar
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Gojjami
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Ethiopia
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Showa
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Ethiopia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
18.70 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
10.00 million
  
23
Native Name
français
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
  
French Name
français
  
amharique
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Amharisch
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[amarɨɲɲa]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Amharas
  
Origin
9th Century
  
13th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Ethiopic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Ge'ez
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Amharic
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Signed Amharic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
am
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
amh
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
amh
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
amh
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
amha1245
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
12-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
French and Amharic Speaking population
French and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which French and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of French and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak French and Amharic on French vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
French and Amharic Language Codes
French and Amharic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. French and Amharic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.