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Countries

Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Ethiopia

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Africa

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
-

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.

Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
33 15

Phonology

How Many Vowels
7 4

How Many Consonants
31 21

Scripts
Ethiopic

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Selam

Thank You
amesege'nallo'

How Are You?
Dehina newot?

Good Night
Dehna dur

Good Evening
melkam meshe't

Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu

Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru

Please
i'bakwon

Sorry
aznallehu

Bye
tschao

I Love You
afekirishalehu

Excuse Me
yiqirta

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gondar

Where They Speak
Gondar

How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00 27

Dialect 2
Gojjami

Where They Speak
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00 24

Dialect 3
Showa

Where They Speak
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00 22

Total No. Of Dialects
5 5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
18.70 million 44

Speaking Population
0.37 % 37

Native Speakers
25.00 million 32

Second Language Speakers
10.00 million 41

Native Name
አማርኛ

Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian

French Name
amharique

German Name
Amharisch

Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]

Ethnicity
Amharas

History

Origin
13th century

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup
Semitic

Branch
Ethiopic

Language Forms

Early Forms
Ge'ez

Standard Forms
Amharic

Language Position
55 50

Signed Forms
Signed Amharic

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
am

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
amh

ISO 639 2/B
amh

ISO 639 3
amh

ISO 639 6
amh

Glottocode
amha1245

Linguasphere
12-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional

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Know Alphabets in Amharic

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Amharic Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Amharic Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Amharic. Amharic phonology gives Amharic vowels and Amharic consonants. There are 7 vowels and 31 consonants in Amharic language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Amharic is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Amharic language is given in detail in this section.

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All Amharic countries

Want to explore all Amharic countries? About Amharic language serves you with all Amharic Speaking Countries. Countries that use Amharic as official language are called as Amharic countries.

  • Countries that use Amharic as their National Language are: Ethiopia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Amharic as second language are: Amharic is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Amharic greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Amharic Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Amharic language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Amharic language.Learn Amharic greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Selam
  • Thank you: amesege'nallo'
  • Good Morning: i'ndemin adäru
  • Good Evening: melkam meshe't
  • Good Afternoon: i'ndemin walu

All Amharic Language Codes

Get to know all Amharic language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Amharic Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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