Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3128
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Selam
kedụ
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
dalụ
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Dehna dur
ka chi fo
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
i'bakwon
Biko
Sorry
aznallehu
Ndo
Bye
tschao
Kachifo
I Love You
afekirishalehu
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
yiqirta
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Gondar
Enuani
Where They Speak
Gondar
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Not present
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
520
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
igbo
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Ibo
French Name
amharique
igbo
German Name
Amharisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Igbo people
Origin
13th century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Kwa
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Igbo
Language Position
5557
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
amh
ibo
ISO 639 3
amh
ibo
ISO 639 6
amh
ibo
Glottocode
amha1245
nucl1417
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative