Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
-
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
724
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3123
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Selam
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
i'bakwon
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
aznallehu
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
tschao
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Gondar
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Wu
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Yue
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
510
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
amharique
chinois
German Name
Amharisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Han
Origin
13th century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
551
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
zho
ISO 639 2/B
amh
chi
ISO 639 3
amh
zho
ISO 639 6
amh
zho
Glottocode
amha1245
sini1245
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Analytic, Isolating