Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ethiopia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3120
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Ethiopic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Selam
您好
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
谢谢
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
你好吗？
Good Night
Dehna dur
晚安
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
晚上好
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
下午好
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
早上好
Please
i'bakwon
请
Sorry
aznallehu
遗憾
Bye
tschao
再见
I Love You
afekirishalehu
我爱你
Excuse Me
yiqirta
原谅我
Dialect 1
Gondar
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Gondar
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gojjami
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
amharique
cantonais
German Name
Amharisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Han Chinese
Origin
13th century
17th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
551
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
am
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
yue
ISO 639 2/B
amh
yue
ISO 639 3
amh
No data available
ISO 639 6
amh
yue
Glottocode
amha1245
cant1236
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-