Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ethiopia
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
-
-
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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3327
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3121
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Selam
Halo
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Dehna dur
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Sugeng énjing
Please
i'bakwon
matur nuwun
Sorry
aznallehu
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
tschao
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Gondar
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Gondar
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gojjami
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Arekan
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
516
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
amharique
javanais
German Name
Amharisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
13th century
450 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indonesian
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Javanese
Language Position
5511
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
jav
ISO 639 2/B
amh
jav
ISO 639 3
amh
jav
ISO 639 6
amh
jav
Glottocode
amha1245
java1253
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative