Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
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Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3125
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
i'bakwon
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
aznallehu
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
tschao
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
Gondar
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Serbia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million8.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Montenegrin
French Name
amharique
serbe
German Name
Amharisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Serbs
Origin
13th century
11th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Serbian
Language Position
5544
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
srp
ISO 639 2/B
amh
srp
ISO 639 3
amh
srp
ISO 639 6
amh
srp
Glottocode
amha1245
serb1264
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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