Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Regulated By
-
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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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Bengali Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3347
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3131
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Devanagari
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 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
i'bakwon
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
aznallehu
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
tschao
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Gondar
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Surati
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
58
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.37 %0.74 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
amharique
goudjrati
German Name
Amharisch
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Gujaratis
Origin
13th century
15
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Ethiopic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Amharic
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
5523
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
guj
ISO 639 2/B
amh
guj
ISO 639 3
amh
guj
ISO 639 6
amh
guj
Glottocode
amha1245
guja1252
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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