Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3130
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
i'bakwon
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
aznallehu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
tschao
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Gondar
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gondar
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
China
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.37 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
amharique
tibétain
German Name
Amharisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Amharas
tibetan people
Origin
13th century
c. 650
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
5529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
am
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
bod
ISO 639 2/B
amh
tib
ISO 639 3
amh
bod
ISO 639 6
amh
bod
Glottocode
amha1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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