Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Ethiopia
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
-
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3140
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Selam
خوش آمديد
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
Dehna dur
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
گڈ مارننگ
Please
i'bakwon
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
aznallehu
معاف کرنا
Bye
tschao
الوداع
I Love You
afekirishalehu
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
yiqirta
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Gondar
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Gondar
India
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gojjami
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
India
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
South Asia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Bihari
French Name
amharique
ourdou
German Name
Amharisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
13th century
12th Century CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Ethiopic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
5520
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
urd
ISO 639 2/B
amh
urd
ISO 639 3
amh
urd
ISO 639 6
amh
urd
Glottocode
amha1245
urdu1245
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional