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Amharic
Amharic

Finnish
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Countries

Countries

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

-
Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Similar To

Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3329
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

78
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3113
9 60
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Scripts

Ethiopic
Latin

Writing Direction

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

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Selam
Moi

Thank You

amesege'nallo'
Kiitos

How Are You?

Dehina newot?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Dehna dur
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

melkam meshe't
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

i'ndemin walu
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

i'ndemin adäru
Hyvää huomenta

Please

i'bakwon
haluta

Sorry

aznallehu
Anteeksi

Bye

tschao
Heippa

I Love You

afekirishalehu
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

yiqirta
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gondar
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Gondar
Finland

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gojjami
Rauma

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Showa
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

521
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

18.70 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.37 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

አማርኛ
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Suomi

French Name

amharique
finnois

German Name

Amharisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Amharas
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

13th century
1543

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Ethiopic
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ge'ez
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Amharic
standard Finnish

Language Position

5522
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Amharic
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

am
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

amh
fin

ISO 639 2/B

amh
fin

ISO 639 3

amh
fin

ISO 639 6

amh
fin

Glottocode

amha1245
finn1318

Linguasphere

12-ACB-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Amharic and Finnish Alphabets

Amharic and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Amharic and Finnish. In Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Amharic and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Amharic and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Amharic and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Amharic and Finnish Speaking population

Amharic and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Finnish on Amharic vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Amharic and Finnish Language Codes

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