Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
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Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Romanian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
77
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3129
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
Përshëndetje
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Si jeni?
Good Night
Dehna dur
natën e mirë
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
mirëdita
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
mirëmengjes
Please
i'bakwon
Ju lutem
Sorry
aznallehu
Me fal
Bye
tschao
mirupafshim
I Love You
afekirishalehu
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Më falni
Dialect 1
Gondar
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Gondar
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gojjami
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Italy
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million7.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million3.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Shqip
French Name
amharique
albanais
German Name
Amharisch
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Albanians
Origin
13th century
1462 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Albanian
Language Position
5514
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
amh
alb
ISO 639 3
amh
sqi
ISO 639 6
amh
sqi
Glottocode
amha1245
alba1267
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic