Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
-
Dzongkha Development 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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3395
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3130
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Dehna dur
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
i'bakwon
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
aznallehu
Tsip maza
Bye
tschao
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Gondar
Laya
Where They Speak
Gondar
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Lunana
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Adap
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
amharique
dzongkha
German Name
Amharisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Ngalop people
Origin
13th century
17th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Dzongkha
Language Position
5531
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
amh
dzo
ISO 639 3
amh
dzo
ISO 639 6
amh
dzo
Glottocode
amha1245
nucl1307
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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