Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3324
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3117
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
Dehna dur
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
i'bakwon
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
aznallehu
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
tschao
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Gondar
Greece
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Griko
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Italy
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
525
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
amharique
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Amharisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
13th century
1500 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Hellenic
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Amharic
Modern Greek
Language Position
5574
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
ell
ISO 639 2/B
amh
gre
ISO 639 3
amh
ell
ISO 639 6
amh
ells
Glottocode
amha1245
gree1276
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic