Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3124
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
Ħello
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Grazzi
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Kif int?
Good Night
Dehna dur
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
i'bakwon
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
aznallehu
Skużani!
Bye
tschao
Ċaw
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Gondar
Qormi
Where They Speak
Gondar
Malta
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Malta
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Not Present
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
52
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
Malti
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Malti
French Name
amharique
maltais
German Name
Amharisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Maltese
Origin
13th century
c. 1470
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Semitic
Branch
Ethiopic
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Maltese
Language Position
5525
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
amh
mlt
ISO 639 3
amh
mlt
ISO 639 6
amh
mlt
Glottocode
amha1245
malt1254
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic