Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3348
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3136
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Good afternoon
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
i'bakwon
कृपया
Sorry
aznallehu
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
tschao
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Doteli
Where They Speak
Gondar
Nepal
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Nepal
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
512
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
amharique
népalais
German Name
Amharisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
13th century
19 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Ethiopic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Amharic
Nepali
Language Position
5559
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
am
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
nep
ISO 639 2/B
amh
nep
ISO 639 3
amh
npi
ISO 639 6
amh
nep
Glottocode
amha1245
nepa1254
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative