Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
China
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Uzbek Language
Derived From
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Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
79
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3127
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
rakhmat
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Dehna dur
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
i'bakwon
birdam
Sorry
aznallehu
kachurung
Bye
tschao
Khayr khosh
I Love You
afekirishalehu
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Gondar
Turpan
Where They Speak
Gondar
China
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Hotan
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
China
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
China
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
57
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million10.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.37 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
amharique
ouïgour
German Name
Amharisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Uyghur
Origin
13th century
11
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Amharic
Uyghur
Language Position
5598
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
am
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
uig
ISO 639 2/B
amh
uig
ISO 639 3
amh
uig
ISO 639 6
amh
uig
Glottocode
amha1245
uigh1240
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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