Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3323
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3114
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Kumno
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Khublei
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Dehna dur
thia sukh
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
khublei
Please
i'bakwon
Sngewbha
Sorry
aznallehu
Map
Bye
tschao
khublei
I Love You
afekirishalehu
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
yiqirta
map a nga
Dialect 1
Gondar
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Gondar
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gojjami
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
55
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
amharique
khasi
German Name
Amharisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Khasi people
Origin
13th century
1200 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
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Branch
Ethiopic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Khasi
Language Position
5540
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
kha
ISO 639 2/B
amh
kha
ISO 639 3
amh
kha
ISO 639 6
amh
kha
Glottocode
amha1245
khas1269
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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