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Amharic
Amharic

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Countries

Countries

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

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Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

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Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

710
0 32
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How Many Consonants

319
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Selam
hallo

Thank You

amesege'nallo'
Danke

How Are You?

Dehina newot?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Dehna dur
gute Nacht

Good Evening

melkam meshe't
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

i'ndemin walu
guten Tag

Good Morning

i'ndemin adäru
guten Morgen

Please

i'bakwon
bitte

Sorry

aznallehu
Verzeihung

Bye

tschao
Tschüs

I Love You

afekirishalehu
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

yiqirta
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gondar
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Gondar
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gojjami
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Germany

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Showa
Texas German

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Texas

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

528
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

18.70 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.37 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

አማርኛ
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

amharique
allemand

German Name

Amharisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Amharas
Germans

History

Origin

13th century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Germanic

Branch

Ethiopic
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ge'ez
No early forms

Standard Forms

Amharic
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

559
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Amharic
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

am
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

amh
deu

ISO 639 2/B

amh
ger

ISO 639 3

amh
deu

ISO 639 6

amh
deus

Glottocode

amha1245
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

12-ACB-a
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic

Amharic and German Alphabets

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

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

Amharic and German Speaking population

Amharic and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and German languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Amharic vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Amharic and German Language Codes

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