Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
-
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3128
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Arabic, Georgian script
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
i'bakwon
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
aznallehu
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
tschao
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Gondar
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Kartli
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
520
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.37 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
amharique
géorgien
German Name
Amharisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Georgians
Origin
13th century
5th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Southern
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Amharic
Modern Georgian
Language Position
55120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
am
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
kat
ISO 639 2/B
amh
geo
ISO 639 3
amh
kat
ISO 639 6
amh
kat
Glottocode
amha1245
nucl1302
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic