Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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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Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3357
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3150
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
Sawubona
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
unjani
Good Night
Dehna dur
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
okuhle ekuseni
Please
i'bakwon
Ngiyacela
Sorry
aznallehu
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
tschao
bye
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Gondar
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Gondar
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Ndebele
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
amharique
zoulou
German Name
Amharisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Zulu people
Origin
13th century
19
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Benue-Congo
Branch
Ethiopic
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Amharic
Deep Zulu
Language Position
5587
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
zul
ISO 639 2/B
amh
zul
ISO 639 3
amh
zul
ISO 639 6
amh
zul
Glottocode
amha1245
zulu1248
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
99-AUT-fg
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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