Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
19
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
-
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3125
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
bok
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
hvala
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
kako si
Good Night
Dehna dur
laku noć
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
dobar dan
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
dobro jutro
Please
i'bakwon
molim
Sorry
aznallehu
Oprostite
Bye
tschao
Doviđenja
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Volim te
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Gondar
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Gondar
Croatia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Croatia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
579
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Hrvatski
French Name
amharique
croate
German Name
Amharisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Croats
Origin
13th century
9th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
5523
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
amh
hrv
ISO 639 3
amh
hrv
ISO 639 6
amh
hrv
Glottocode
amha1245
croa1245
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic