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Countries

Countries

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Total No. Of Countries

16
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
France, Germany, Indonesia

Regulated By

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Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

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.
  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.

Similar To

Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
German and English Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

76
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3121
9 60
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Scripts

Ethiopic
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Selam
Hallo

Thank You

amesege'nallo'
dankjewel

How Are You?

Dehina newot?
hoe gaat het met je?

Good Night

Dehna dur
goede Nacht

Good Evening

melkam meshe't
goedenavond

Good Afternoon

i'ndemin walu
goedemiddag

Good Morning

i'ndemin adäru
goedemorgen

Please

i'bakwon
alsjeblieft

Sorry

aznallehu
sorry

Bye

tschao
vaarwel

I Love You

afekirishalehu
Ik hou van jou

Excuse Me

yiqirta
pardon

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gondar
Gronings

Where They Speak

Gondar
Netherlands

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gojjami
Low Saxon

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.004,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Showa
Limburgian

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Belgium, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

57
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

18.70 million28.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.37 %0.32 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million22.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

አማርኛ
Nederlands

Alternative Names

Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Hollands, Nederlands

French Name

amharique
néerlandais; flamand

German Name

Amharisch
Niederländisch

Pronunciation

[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

Ethnicity

Amharas
Dutch people

History

Origin

13th century
AD 450-500

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Germanic

Branch

Ethiopic
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ge'ez
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

Standard Forms

Amharic
Standard Dutch

Language Position

5548
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Amharic
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

am
nl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

amh
nld

ISO 639 2/B

amh
dut

ISO 639 3

amh
nld

ISO 639 6

amh
nld

Glottocode

amha1245
mode1257

Linguasphere

12-ACB-a
52-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Synthetic

Amharic and Dutch Alphabets

Amharic and Dutch Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Amharic and Dutch. In Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Amharic and Dutch languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Amharic and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Amharic and Dutch are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Amharic and Dutch Speaking population

Amharic and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. 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 Dutch on Amharic vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Amharic and Dutch Language Codes

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