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Amharic
Amharic

Burmese
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Countries

Countries

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Myanmar

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Myanmar

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Mon

Regulated By

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Myanmar Language Commission

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.
  • The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.

Similar To

Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Thai Language

Derived From

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Pali Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3333
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

712
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3133
9 60
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Scripts

Ethiopic
Tangut

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Selam
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)

Thank You

amesege'nallo'
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)

How Are You?

Dehina newot?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)

Good Night

Dehna dur
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)

Good Evening

melkam meshe't
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)

Good Afternoon

i'ndemin walu
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)

Good Morning

i'ndemin adäru
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)

Please

i'bakwon
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)

Sorry

aznallehu
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)

Bye

tschao
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)

I Love You

afekirishalehu
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)

Excuse Me

yiqirta
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gondar
Arakanese

Where They Speak

Gondar
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gojjami
Tavoyan

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Myanmar

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.00440,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Showa
Intha

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Burma

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.0090,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

55
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

18.70 million43.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.37 %0.50 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million33.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

አማርኛ
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)

Alternative Names

Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa

French Name

amharique
birman

German Name

Amharisch
Birmanisch

Pronunciation

[amarɨɲɲa]
[bəmɛ̀]

Ethnicity

Amharas
Bamar people

History

Origin

13th century
1113 AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Tibeto-Burman

Branch

Ethiopic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ge'ez
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese

Standard Forms

Amharic
Modern Burmese

Language Position

5543
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Amharic
Burmese sign language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

am
my

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

amh
mya

ISO 639 2/B

amh
bur

ISO 639 3

amh
mya

ISO 639 6

amh
mya

Glottocode

amha1245
sout3159

Linguasphere

12-ACB-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Analytic, Isolating

Amharic and Burmese Alphabets

Amharic and Burmese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Amharic and Burmese. In Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Burmese Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Amharic and Burmese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Amharic and Burmese languages. The Amharic phonology consist Amharic vowels and Amharic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Amharic greetings vs Burmese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Amharic and Burmese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Amharic and Burmese 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 Amharic and Burmese dialects. Various dialects of Amharic and Burmese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Amharic are spoken in different Amharic Speaking Countries whereas Burmese Dialects are spoken in different Burmese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Amharic vs Burmese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Amharic dialects include: Gondar, Gojjami. Burmese dialects include: Arakanese , Tavoyan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Amharic and Burmese Speaking population

Amharic and Burmese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Burmese languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Burmese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 %. 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 Amharic and Burmese on Amharic vs Burmese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Amharic and Burmese Language Codes

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