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German and Amharic


Amharic and German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
1  
14

National Language
Germany  
Ethiopia  

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Africa  

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography  
Not Available  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  
Not Available  

Derived From
Albanian Languages  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Amharic-1.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
7  
4

How Many Consonants
9  
1
31  
21

Scripts
Latin  
Ethiopic  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
hallo  
Selam  

Thank You
Danke  
amesege'nallo'  

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?  
Dehina newot?  

Good Night
gute Nacht  
Dehna dur  

Good Evening
guten Abend  
melkam meshe't  

Good Afternoon
guten Tag  
i'ndemin walu  

Good Morning
guten Morgen  
i'ndemin adäru  

Please
bitte  
i'bakwon  

Sorry
Verzeihung  
aznallehu  

Bye
Tschüs  
tschao  

I Love You
Ich liebe dich  
afekirishalehu  

Excuse Me
Entschuldigung  
yiqirta  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German  
Gondar  

Where They Speak
Switzerland  
Gondar  

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00  
18
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Swabian German  
Gojjami  

Where They Speak
Germany  
Ethiopia  

How Many People Speak
820,000.00  
26
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Showa  

Where They Speak
Texas  
Ethiopia  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
18.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
0.37 %  
35

Native Speakers
101.00 million  
10
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million  
5
10.00 million  
23

Native Name
Deutsch  
Not Available  

Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco  
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian  

French Name
allemand  
amharique  

German Name
Deutsch  
Amharisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  
[amarɨɲɲa]  

Ethnicity
Germans  
Amharas  

History

Origin
6th Century AD  
13th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Afro-Asiatic Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Semitic  

Branch
Western  
Ethiopic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Ge'ez  

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  
Amharic  

Language Position
9  
9
55  
40

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Signed Amharic  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
de  
am  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu  
amh  

ISO 639 2/B
ger  
amh  

ISO 639 3
deu  
amh  

ISO 639 6
deus  
Not Available  

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397  
amha1245  

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm  
12-ACB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
Fusional  

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All German and Amharic Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Amharic dialects. Various dialects of German and Amharic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Amharic Dialects are spoken in different Amharic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Amharic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Amharic dialects include: Gondar , Gojjami. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Amharic Speaking population

German and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of German and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Amharic on German vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Amharic Language Codes

German and Amharic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Amharic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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