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Amharic
Amharic

Japanese
Japanese



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Countries

Countries

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Japan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau

Regulated By

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Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Korean Language

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3399
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3114
9 60
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Scripts

Ethiopic
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Selam
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

amesege'nallo'
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Dehina newot?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Dehna dur
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

melkam meshe't
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

i'ndemin walu
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

i'ndemin adäru
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

i'bakwon
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

aznallehu
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

tschao
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

afekirishalehu
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

yiqirta
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gondar
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Gondar
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gojjami
Hakata

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Showa
Kansai

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
kansai

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

531
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

18.70 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.37 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

አማርኛ
日本語

Alternative Names

Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Nihongo

French Name

amharique
japonais

German Name

Amharisch
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[amarɨɲɲa]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Amharas
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

13th century
1185

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Semitic
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Branch

Ethiopic
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ge'ez
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Amharic
Japanese

Language Position

558
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Amharic
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

am
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

amh
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

amh
jpn

ISO 639 3

amh
jpn

ISO 639 6

amh
jpn

Glottocode

amha1245
nucl1643

Linguasphere

12-ACB-a
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Amharic and Japanese Alphabets

Amharic and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Amharic and Japanese. In Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Amharic and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Amharic and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Amharic and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Amharic and Japanese Speaking population

Amharic and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Amharic vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Amharic and Japanese Language Codes

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