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Amharic
Amharic

Swahili
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Countries

Countries

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Ethiopia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

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Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

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Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3324
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3121
9 60
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Scripts

Ethiopic
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Selam
Habari

Thank You

amesege'nallo'
Asante

How Are You?

Dehina newot?
Habari gani?

Good Night

Dehna dur
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

melkam meshe't
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

i'ndemin walu
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

i'ndemin adäru
Habari za asubuhi

Please

i'bakwon
tafadhali

Sorry

aznallehu
pole

Bye

tschao
bye

I Love You

afekirishalehu
nakupenda

Excuse Me

yiqirta
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Gondar
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Gondar
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gojjami
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Showa
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Ethiopia
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

22,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

512
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

18.70 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.37 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

10.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

አማርኛ
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

amharique
swahili

German Name

Amharisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[amarɨɲɲa]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Amharas
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

13th century
6th century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Ethiopic
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Ge'ez
No early forms

Standard Forms

Amharic
Swahili

Language Position

5521
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Amharic
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

am
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

amh
swa

ISO 639 2/B

amh
swa

ISO 639 3

amh
swa

ISO 639 6

amh
swa

Glottocode

amha1245
swah1254

Linguasphere

12-ACB-a
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
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Amharic and Swahili Alphabets

Amharic and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Amharic and Swahili. In Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Amharic and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Amharic and Swahili languages. The Amharic phonology consist Amharic vowels and Amharic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Amharic greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Amharic and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Amharic and Swahili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Amharic and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Amharic and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Amharic are spoken in different Amharic Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Amharic vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Amharic dialects include: Gondar, Gojjami. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Amharic and Swahili Speaking population

Amharic and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Amharic and Swahili on Amharic vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Amharic and Swahili Language Codes

Amharic and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Amharic and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.